Aulterra Whole House USB EMF 5G radiation neutralizer

[RobSm88]

I posted this in another thread and someone suggested sending it to Big Clive for analysis but he probably has hundreds of requests, so why not post here?

Back story:
Over the last few years my mum has descended into the QAnon rabbit hole. She’s really unwell and any attempts by me or my siblings to help her out of it only serve to push her deeper into it. By all means have a laugh, but please remember that whilst these things are ridiculous on so many fronts, there are sick vulnerable people being taken advantage of.

I got this as a birthday gift because my house needs to be “cleansed”. She paid over £500 for a multi pack of these USB devices and stickers that go onto phones among other things.

Perhaps the electronically minded people here can give me an insight into what exactly this thing is so that I can attempt to explain to mum why it’s a scam.

Here it is…

 

[RobSm88]

That just looks like a usb storage key

Probably got some malware on there too

I’m curious to know if it was a storage device with malware!
but…

I would not be plugging that into my computer, for all you know, it's a keylogger and remote update anything to a server!

If you are going to plug it into anything, just a plain power adaptor.

I won’t be plugging this into anything.

i think the op has to face the reality that his mum has gone full on, 100% bat **** crazy. time for an intervention, or cut her out of your life.

Yeah I fear you are right but as hard as it is on everyone we’re not ready to give up on her yet.

It looks like they've reused a PCB, removed some of the solder mask on one side, stuck the supposed IC on it and connected it to some of the tracks.
I'd be surprised if it did anything other than power the LED (not that i would plug it in to anything) but it would be interesting to see if some of the coating on the "IC" could be carefully removed/scratched off to reveal what's underneath as it looks like it could be transparent from the edges

Do you mean the dark shiny coating? I could try to scrape it off.

There's a USA patent number there but it looks like it's not complete. What does the patent say?

It is complete.

https://lafibre.info/images/5g/200902_brevet_US_pastille_Neutralizer.pdf

Reading it now, this'll be a giggle.

I’ve skim read it just now. It seems to elaborate on cell phone radiation being bad, and then details some research on paramagnetic materials (it doesn’t say which ones), but I cannot see where it explains how this device brings those two things together to offer protection. A bit of good old fashioned bootstrapping there.

I still think you should send this to Big Clive.

I would really want to get a detailed answer on how exactly this is snake oil so maybe I will. Wonder if he would be interested?

 

[RobSm88]

The problem you are going to have is anyone who believes this could function as advertised is not going to understand/ believe the basic physics principles behind why it will not work.

For a start, lets be absolutely clear this is 100% a scam. This device is clearly some old USB thumb drive or adaptor of some kind, I tried to use google lens to identify the PCB image from the silk screen "AB5-18" but didn't get any exact matches.
On the one side of the PCBA it looks like whatever IC/ electronics was originally fitted has been removed (probably so it doesn’t draw current). All thats left is a few resistors, MLCC's and an SMD (D1 identifier), you could plug this into a USB charger and see if the LED (D1) comes on just for giggles, it wont do any harm, its only very low voltage. On the other side its very difficult to identify what that is, but if as suspected its got no electrical connection its doing nothing, its not attenuating EMF around the home that is for sure. It does appear to have a label or tape over it, if you remove that it may well show you identifiers or markings you can google, odds on its an eMMC IC.

The only way to reduce the magnitude of electro-magnetic waves is to either cancel them with an identical signal 180° phase shifted or block them ie have a faraday cage or some RF absorbing material between you and the source. Clearly, if it uses no power it can't be doing the first (although there are many other reasons why this "device" couldn't do that too) and its definitely not magically putting a physical cage around the house.

@RobSm88
Have you tried getting a signal analyser app (net analyser is one) for your phone which gives you a dB level for the cellular and wifi signals your phone sees ? this would be a very simple demonstration to your mother that these signal levels do not change when the device is plugged in or not or even in the room etc.

If it helps, I have 25 years experience in the Satellite Communications industry making high frequency radio transceivers (and have a BSc in Physics) I'm probably qualified to comment (or am I part of the cover up !!!!! ) .

This is helpful thanks. I plugged it into a battery pack to see if it did anything but there was no sign of life.
I dug out an old USB microscope webcam to get some closer pics which might help determine what exactly this is. Also scraped off the dark coating on the chip.

 

[RobSm88]

Any ideas on what that silicon wafer looking thing is supposed to be?