Reminds of local towns buying expensive “smart benches” that really no one uses. Easy way to spend some tax-payer money and give the appearance of investing into sophisticated technology, when it's all cheap off the shelf components from China.

>Iraq and other countries purchases millions of dollars worth of phony bomb detectors. Something anyone with a bit of science education can debunk.

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2015/06/fake-bomb-detectors-...

This is a hilarious read.

This is not hilarious, it's appaling. The person selling this and people buying this are intentionally putting a lot of other people's lives at risk. I fully believe all involved parties should be tried for something at the level of attempted homicide.