ArticleBody:What would you think of a device that promised to cure cancer, soothe arthritis, and even irradiate your baby’s milk? Interesting, right? OK, how about if I added that this miracle gadget could do all these things with the power of radioactive gas? Sold! Sorry to say, but if that piqued your interest without a smidge of skepticism, Popular Science would've called you 'hopelessly gullible' 60 years ago.
Consider the Atomotrone, which looked like a mini fridge and claimed to “irradiate” your food using colored lights and radio signals from a transmitter on the top shelf. Shut the door, push a button, and boom. That’s pretty much what we do with a microwave, but the Atomotrone didn’t do...anything. Or maybe you'd like a type of device called 'radon emanators' that did exactly what their name promised–expose the things you eat and drink with radioactive gas. Yum.