The SCAM of Wireless ESD Straps - Feat. ElectroBOOM

Eh... maybe I revealed too much joy in shocking Linus on camera! No no, it was the joy for the scientific experiment I was feeling... is what I'm trying to tell myself!! Thanks for taking one... or many... for the team, Linus!

Electroboom's "we learn by pain" delivery was gold

I love that electroboom COULD have let Linus start touching the Van De Graff generator THEN turn it on so that Linus wouldn't have to get shocked... But didn't.

BOOM is the perfect educator - smart enough to present things in practice safely, but crazy enough to make it fun.

As a high voltage lineman for over 25 years, electroboom is one of my favorite YouTubers that have ever come about. Seeing him on your channel is so entertaining

You can never go wrong with an LTT and Electroboom collab

1:02 I love how he is just standing there with his wand lmao Mehdi: Hurt Linus CC: Help Linus.

Having gone through (UK) anti-static training for a military component supply company, I can confer that it is SO important for affective protection. Great video and very informative.

LTT and ElectroBoom the two channels my teachers would put on when they couldn't be bothered to teach... i had no problems with this, love them both

Linus having fun with Mehdi is pure gold. I hope the collab with ElectroBOOM happens more often, even as a special consultant for electrical safety(when dealing with potentially dangerous products) would be awesome.

The sound of childish joy he let out when Linus said "now I want to feel that". I'm dead. I've been watching both of these guys off and on for years and it's so great to see them together.

It's really great to see Electroboom in this context. His videos are great but even in this more improvised format (which is saying something given his normal content) he's such a natural entertainer and quick wit. A mind that works like lightning, you may say

This is such an obvious team-up that it should absolutely be happening more often.

This is my favorite collab. It’s hilarious watching electro boom fight the urge to mess with Linus even more. Watch his face. He’s full of big brother bully energy

Years ago (2000 or so) the production manager at a company I worked at decided to purchase the wireless ESD straps. The straps were supposed to be used in conjunction with a sort of humidifier. I, being in engineering, researched the device and found several articles about how they were a scam. I became unpopular with production since they had to add grounding to all of the benches use in production.

Gotta love when the person holding the camera took a few steps back from the set as Linus was about to turn on the "magic wand" stick and he got told to not point it toward electronics. We often forget the camera and person holding the camera while watching this kind of content... and their values.

As an electrician, Electroboom is one of my favorite channels!

Word of warning that Japanese strap there appears to actually be a negative ion bracelet. The powder in these items is typically Thorium Oxide which is mildly radioactive. Most of the decay will be alpha and beta radiation so relatively harmless from outside the body. Continued wear is still not recommended however especially when the dust particles are visible like that, they will easily be dislodged through wear or any form of damage and then there is a risk of inhaling them. You do not want to ingest this stuff as if it gets stuck in your body somewhere, which is almost guaranteed if it enters the lungs, it will result in chronic radiation damage to the surrounding tissue.

Make a whole series of this. Educate and create awareness for everyone on them. Linus is a perfect volunteer for this experiment.

I used to work in an injection molding factory and sometimes we would transfer the reworked pellets from a large hopper to a large metal bin. The process tobs of those little pellets moving through the metal built up a DANGEROUS static electric charge. Everyone makes the mistake once of casually touching the bin without being grounded. It's super painful. You see a flash, your ears ring and pop, you even taste it momentarily. Static electricity can be pretty gnarly if it's able to build a huge charge. It's just that normal everyday activity never yields such potential.