IQ Tax “healing” machine teardown
date
Feb 4, 2024
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Post
author
Hugh “plushugh” He @ Radio Club
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healing-machine
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Published
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teardown
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Teardown of an old “bio-information wave healing machine”
I got this old “bio-information wave treatment device” from a garbage thrift recently.
This certainly is a scam back in the 2000s, labeled with markings like “produced by the Guangdong Sports and Health Materials Factory” and registration numbers.
A google search suggests this pending patent:
But this doesn’t seem to be for this specific device, which would be obvious later.
This device also comes with a pair of electrodes connected to a male 3.5mm TRS connector that was lost in transit.
Don’t know what this 3.5mm jack is for though.
It seems to take a few of those huge alkaline batteries used for the lighter in stovetops. It’s however surprising that a desktop device decided to use batteries instead of a wall plug, guess its just another cost saving measure for this useless device.
After taking out 4 screws(2 on both sides) of the device
It shows an rather uncomplicated hand-soldered circuit board with a few caps and a ton of resistors.
Interesting enough, the labels for the integrated circuit seems to be scratched off, as expected for an suspicious device.
A few extra pics for reverse engineering if you are interested to figure out exactly what this device does.
