"Negative Ion Necklace" Topic

Anyone try this and do you find them helpful or snake-oil-like?

Not like, just actually snake oil.

How does a necklace keep a negative charge if you're wearing it? It would ground out through your skin. :)

Do they give you rubber booties and gloves so you don't ruin the effect when touching doorknobs, or walking in puddles?

Therefor bunk!

Any link to what this actually is?

From the name it sounds like it gives quackery a bad name.
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Sounds like snake oil to me, but the placebo effect might make it useful for some folks.

An actual negative ion generator (like a floor-standing plug-in unit) is somewhat less quakery than something like a necklace that just sits there.

That said, the site that Hundvig links to is certainly trying too hard to look like good science, which is usually a bad sign for whatever they are trying to sell.

I think there is an infoarticle about it in next month's WI.

Fun with ions!

The "Ionic Breeze" touts the fact that it ionizes the air to purify it. In actuality, ionized oxygen – O3 – is ozone or smog at ground level.

There was a company selling ion absorbers over the radio "to counter the harmful effects" of ion radiation from cell phones etc. The product was a small piece of metal that actually did absorb ions – but then so would a piece of scrap metal. It was too small to do anything protective. I think they lasted two months before folding.

There's even more quackery in the energy business with all these companies offering voltage regulators, and other black boxes – or even two sheets of metal – that are supposed to lower energy costs. So far, the only real use is to burn out motors thus reducing the amount you spend on electricity because its not working.

Wyatt

It's amazing how much money that snake-oil salesmen can make by using Big Words that sound like something we heard of back in Science class 30 years ago.

I'm waiting for the return of electric underwear…

About the best that can be said is that it might act as a placebo for the gullible, and it's probably not harmful.

-Kle.

While we are discussing snake oil, there was a lot of TV advertising a few months ago (at least in Canada) for something that looked like a giant chapstick.

The only words in the add were "Apply Directly to the Forehead"; I think that was the product name as well.

Anyone every look at a package to see if it actually had active ingredients or made any performance claims at all?

"I'm waiting for the return of electric underwear…"

At least that still worked as underwear

I imagine wearing something like that would make you a huge target for flying positrons, thereby negating the actual benefit.

I think that 'Head On' is basically Aspercreme – i.e. apsirin or another OTC analgesic suspended in a creme for topical use.

I haven't read the package, so the above is merely surmise. It would be a cool day in Heck before I bought the stuff, considering how much I hate their commercials.

-Kle.

Their ads are laughable, since they don't tell you it does anything, to get around being nailed for false advertising.

A unique, but questionable tactic.

I think I'm missing something in translation; Ozone (O3) isn't 'ionised oxygen', it's Oxygen with 3 atoms to a molecule, not 2 as in 'normal' Oxygen. Either form can be ionised.

Don't bring science into this!

Allen