Re: More modern synchrometer?

..."synchrometer"??? REALLY?!?!?!?

Admit it, you did that just to see if I'm still out here.

The device in the article is absolutely nothing like the Clark f*r*a*u*d, because this thing might actually work. I'd say the Clark synchrometer was as useless as a CrackerJacks toy, but that would be an insult to CrackerJacks toys.

This device is significantly different from devices discussed on these forumssesses. This thing works only when a specific bacterium is isolated from everything else in the universe. This is a go/no-go detector, not a broadband sweeper. In fact, it can't tell what it is detecting. That is, it doesn't detect a specific bacterium, it just measures activity by sensing vibrations - unbelieveably small vibrations - without qualifying what they mean. If it wiggles, it must still be alive; if it's stopped wiggling, it must be dead. Isolating a particular bacterium for a test is someone else's problem. So this is strictly a lab bench analytical tool, not a treatment device.

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