it's very funny to be half-listening to podcasts on the bus and then suddenly realize that, wait a minute, we have one of those at work
a libi rose
today's item from the collection is the Gopher golf ball finder from Quadro Corp, because @edzitron.com was on Behind The Bastards talking about it & the other far more insidious grifts it led to
media archaeology lab
Joined @iwriteok.bsky.social and @whysophiewhy.bsky.social on Behind The Bastards to talk about the origin story of a completely fake bomb detector made by some very evil people
www.iheart.com/podcast/105-...
<p>Robert sits down with Ed Zitron to discuss one of the deadliest fake tech products in history: the Gopher, a fake golf ball detector that became a fake bomb detector and got hundreds of people kill...
