High C/ Crow, first, the meth gun uses UVF, Crow, not x-rays. X-rays can't detect meth.
Second, Valimed is nothing more than a COTS UVF with a custom software package taylored for a specific, niche market. A research UVF spectrometer can do many things, Valimed can do only one thing, test meds against the known signatures.
It's not even used to measure concentrations with any accuracy, Configured with a +/- 20% concentration window, it only screens for blatant errors.
Loch/CDEX touted a detection device with a huge stand-off distance operating in real time. HA, ha ha ha ha!! BS!
CDEX continued the BS and even sweetened the dream by talking about using UVF that could detect at 1/2 a kilometer.
Where is anything that has a viable detection range of 2 meters or even 34 inches (wpoteet)? MS
What happen to MP's "hefty priced" pulse laser that allowed detection at "only about 150 meters" (as if it was an apology)? PHD.
Valimed operates at under an inch stand-off in a pristine optical environment "in about 30 seconds". It works like any other COTS UVF. It does not impress me, nor does it impress anyone else that is NOT paid to be impressed.
Any loch/CDEX device claiming to have an "open air" stand-off distance (the original revolutionary aspect of Loch/CDEx claims) has been rejected by the US Army and Navy. All patent applications reviewed by branches of the US Military, including the DOE and DOT have been dismissed as "secrecy not recommended". In other words, they have right of first refusal to obtain exclusive liscensing and REFUSE IT THEY DID.
Why was the Loch/CDEX tech rejected? Well... no one really knows, there's been no reports covering the Army and Navy testing (MP is not about reports). The only thing I heard was an unofficial explanation claiming the footprint/stand-off was not good enough.
What will be the footprint and stand-off distance of the meth gun? Will it work at over an inch? Will it take over 30 seconds? Will the target market be for "miniscule detection" only? Can it compete with other products on the market used for bulk detection? Can it compete with the FirstDefender that can detect 2000 substances and over a million combinations- compared to the meth gun which MP says will ony detect meth when (if) it makes it to market? Will it have all the features of a Motorola Razr
Will it be "like a new Tide"?
Once you don't take conmen seriously what that say can be real funny! LOL
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