I’m not going to bother picking a side in the debate as to what the ‘REM’ in ‘REM pod’ actually stands for. ‘Remote Electronic Monitoring’? ‘Radiating Electro-Magneticity’? Either way, it has something to do with electromagnetic fields. As ghost hunters claim that spirits will utilise and disturb electromagnetic fields (EMF) in order to ‘communicate’, you can see how this links up. If a ghost approaches the device, it will light up and make a sound. We’ve talked about this when we discussed the EMF meter.
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I’ve recently been chatting with a journalist, Geoffrey Bunting, about the topic of ghost-hunting technology. It was triggered by him working on a piece marking the 15th anniversary of the Xbox Kinect, something I’ve posted about on this site. While exploring the technical aspects, limitations, and weaknesses of the hardware, the ‘afterlife’ of the project as a SLS system for use by ghost-hunters is what has brought him to me, although many others could have discussed it in far finer detail than I could. For me, this developed into an opportunity to explain a little more about WHY I wrote a science show about ghost-hunting. That’s what this post documents. (UPDATE: The Guardian article was published 3rd Mar ’25, and The Verge article was published on 30th March.)
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