Military–industrial complex, etc. this is off-topic, but did you see that article in Businessweek about the bomb detector. http://www.businessweek.com/article

Military–industrial complex, etc. this is off-topic, but did you see that article in Businessweek about the bomb detector. http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2013-07-11/in-iraq-the-bomb-detecting-device-that-didnt-work-except-to-make-money http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2013-07-11/in-iraq-the-... Ok, that's pretty obviously a fraud. But what it made me start thinking is if you can take an empty plastic handle and a radio antennae and sell millions of dollars of them ... there must be a ton of stuff that doesn't really do what its supposed to but people buy anyway.