Yes, this is how the company describes the LifeScan, or whatever the name is, as
working. The same for the Trackman game locator. Look up the patent and make
up your own mind. To me, it looks like a radionic tuner. The funny thing is
that I've never heard of a radionic tuner with any readout other than the stick
plate -- in fact, some people say that there's no detectable change in voltage
or current in a radionics machine. Somewhere on the patent server, however,
there is an interesting patent for an attempt at an objective radionic device
(of course, they don't call it that) that uses a computer to detect a hit by
listening to the sound of the user rubbing the plate. The inventors have a
theory about electric fields being detected by some microscopic structure in the
skin cells whose name I've forgotten. You could probably turn it up by
searching for "tactile feedback".
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