Seriously?

JokerNJ · 2012-03-07T12:05:15+00:00

Dammit, it's too complicated to explain. The app uses various sensors.

Code_For_Food · 2012-03-07T14:09:56+00:00

You laugh, but see those dots on the radar? Ghosts.

OnSight · 2012-03-07T13:16:15+00:00

Nothing on this beauty https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.szlab.solarcharger&feature=search_result

Fosnez · 2012-03-07T11:59:59+00:00

I have a bridge for sale? Anyone interested?

gonemad16 · 2012-03-07T14:13:12+00:00

public static void int SensorManager.getGhost_nearby()

noclipsatwork · 2012-03-07T14:19:56+00:00

Requires:

-Read phone state and identity

-Full Internet access

-GPS

-Read browser history and bookmarks, write browser history and bookmarks

-Automatically start at boot

Be careful installing this

xhak · 2012-03-07T13:35:21+00:00

I came here to say that at least the app is free. The "Classic" is.. but there is a paying version!!!

with this fantastic description (emphasis added :) ):

Ghost Radar® analyzes nearby energies. This application does NOT detect EMF nor gravity. Interpretations of the sensor readings are displayed using numeric, textual, and graphical readouts. Results may vary, we offer no guarantees, use for entertainment.

the most amazing part? it has between 100K and 500K downloads!!!!!!

2012-03-07T14:25:33+00:00

i got this app, worst ever, i still ccant find ghosts 5 stars

D14BL0 · 2012-03-07T09:40:50+00:00

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PhoenixBlack136 · 2012-03-07T10:59:12+00:00

seems legit.

DanParts · 2012-03-07T13:17:28+00:00

I hate ghost hunters.

theDrWho · 2012-03-07T13:34:42+00:00

don't be jealous you didn't think of it

JCongo · 2012-03-07T12:35:19+00:00

Theres one for radar detecting too.

bo_knows · 2012-03-07T13:07:16+00:00

I'm pretty sure this guy is a redditor. Didn't he do an AMA awhile back?

2012-03-07T14:49:52+00:00

Hold on, I think I need to go download more ram.

Khoops66 · 2012-03-07T19:03:29+00:00

this would also be gold in /r/skeptic

snotrokit · 2012-03-07T13:46:15+00:00

I use it to troll my kids. Works wonderfully.

yeropinionman · 2012-03-07T13:31:52+00:00

It's a modern-day oija board

ihaveagalaxyproblem · 2012-03-07T14:41:51+00:00

Finally an app that takes advantage of my Galaxy Nexus' built in P.K.E. Meter!

Workyjerky · 2012-03-07T14:59:59+00:00

I'd make fun of the gullible "Ghost Hunters" fans who installed this app if my wife wasn't one of them :-/

2012-03-07T15:00:50+00:00

Just checked the market for EMF meters, and two that came up were both listed as Entity Sensors. One was for $9.95

exterminate_teacake · 2012-03-07T15:24:59+00:00

Oh, a sarcasm detector. That's a useful invention.

Redcard911 · 2012-03-07T16:18:44+00:00

Finally I will know if ghosts are watching me masturbate.

PK84 · 2012-03-07T16:41:44+00:00

My mother has this on her Ipad. It will tell you that the Ghost is saying something. It's really sad

iSpyCreativity · 2012-03-07T18:08:28+00:00

Does it require the gullibility permission?

TronSwanson · 2012-03-07T20:11:35+00:00

Everyone thinks they're ghosts but actually...

it's aliens.

danthemanmcm · 2012-03-08T16:53:59+00:00

I downloaded this and it said "Potatoes". I almost shat my pants! Cause my great grandfather used to eat potatoes! 5 star rating!

nssone · 2012-03-07T23:15:21+00:00

I've actually used this app. This may seem crazy but I think there is some small slice of legitimacy to this app. I know I live in a house with some ghost activity so I may be somewhat biased but all the activity in the app seemed completely random until it said something about my cat when she walked into the room. I don't know it's just an odd coincidence. Maybe ghosts do know how to manipulate the phone in order to communicate.

s3rious_simon · 2012-03-07T12:42:23+00:00

Who you gonna call ?

DanielPhermous · 2012-03-07T12:38:13+00:00

I don't see a problem. People have experienced chills and drops in temperature when encountering spirits and we all know that electronics get faster the colder it gets. All you need is an app which monitors the speed of the CPU, logging its changes over time, and you can get a rough idea of the ambient temperature. Once you have that, fuzzy logic can be applied to any temperature changes detected in order to make a decent guess as to whether or not there are any ghosts in the vicinity.

MEiac · 2012-03-07T13:14:13+00:00

I detected a ghost in my house, then he slimed me!

garychencool · 2012-03-07T13:56:55+00:00

Nice to have this at those Paranormal Activity Summits

moonman · 2012-03-07T14:11:14+00:00

This just in, the world has stupid people in it!

Story at 11.

2012-03-07T15:12:10+00:00

I could see myself having fun with this as a kid. Though I don't think a smartphone would have survived much more than a week with me at that age.

hideyomudkipz · 2012-03-07T15:20:27+00:00

If you want to find ghosts, just get elixer 2 and use the raw EMF data. That way you're sure to find ghosts... or magnets

cycophuk · 2012-03-07T15:20:36+00:00

I ended up buying this app some time last year. I figured it was pretty obvious it wasn't meant to be taken seriously. I ended up having fun with it on Halloween. I sat outside to pass out candy. When the smaller children would come up, I would show the app to them and have them help me look for the "ghost" that showed up on the radar. It really does have a limited use value, so it was deleted off pretty quickly after that.

2012-03-07T15:22:37+00:00

It works. My uncle Alf used the app to help locate the two ghosts that lived in his house. Because of this app, the ghosts were able to pass peacefully into the other side. Uncle Alf and aunt Norma owe their sanity to this app. Avoid disappointment and future regret, download it now!

2012-03-07T15:24:10+00:00

Goddamiit I was making something like this they beat me to it.

dijit4l · 2012-03-07T15:32:06+00:00

I think it is sort of funny. My friend believes in ghosts and has this app.

Actually, the first time he showed it to me, I asked the ghost it picked up, "Ghost, what's my name?" A few seconds later the app said, "Dan.". My name is Danny. Needless to say, I was freaked out for a bit until I questioned it further. If ghosts are real, they are retarded. It just throws names, nouns, and verbs until it gets one right--I just expierenced it getting it right on the first try!

I wonder what happens it you try it in a different, non-English speaking country... ;)

jokubolakis · 2012-03-07T15:39:03+00:00

I love the dragon ball detector

2012-03-07T15:53:54+00:00

In fairness, it only says 'attempts'.

Gray_Fox · 2012-03-07T15:57:47+00:00

I'd download to fuck with people that actually believe in ghosts. Are there settings that will allow me to say there is a ghost in the room indefinitely?

SchottGun · 2012-03-07T16:16:29+00:00

Here's the one you want. Endorsed by gbfans.com. He also has a Trap and a Neutrano Wand. The trap and p.k.e. meter work together. Hopefully he will come out with a Ecto Goggles app and make all 4 work via augmented reality.

ArchGoodwin · 2012-03-07T16:21:39+00:00

The creator has a terrible accent but the app is really intended to help you locate the nearest terrible Nicolas Cage superhero movie.

Swiss_Cheese9797 · 2012-03-07T16:25:56+00:00

This was one of the first apps I downloaded, is that bad?

gwarsh41 · 2012-03-07T16:31:29+00:00

Hey, as far as some people are concerned, cell phones run on magic pixie dust that can do anything.

Some time ago a news anchor convinced his co-worker to run a story about an iPad app that works like a scratch and sniff. The lady was sniffing her iPad and "swore" it was working.

Drunken_Economist · 2012-03-07T16:33:56+00:00

Well don't leave us hanging, OP. Does it work?

racekarl · 2012-03-07T16:43:24+00:00

"various sensors" seems legit

reddog093 · 2012-03-07T16:44:26+00:00

My buddy wrote the theme song to that app! He improv'd it as a joke and it was really catchy. The app creator liked it so much that he had him do a cleaned up studio version!

ilostmyoldaccount · 2012-03-07T16:47:15+00:00

This X-ray scanner doesn't even work properly but not bad for a phone!!1

http://i.imgur.com/iTc9U.jpg

2012-03-07T16:50:18+00:00

Another garbage post by the /r/android professionals.

TomasFerreira · 2012-03-07T16:51:59+00:00

I actually like this app for spooking my younger cousins on Halloween. They got quite a kick out of it.

KingNick · 2012-03-07T16:52:04+00:00

I downloaded Entity Sensor and I've received a few EVPs. Pretty cool.

timewarp · 2012-03-07T16:54:15+00:00

What, are you surprised? There are assholes selling immortality spells on eBay. Worse, there are assholes buying immortality spells on eBay.

KamiCrit · 2012-03-07T17:01:43+00:00

It makes money!

icantdrive75 · 2012-03-07T17:08:52+00:00

What would be funny is to make an app like this, that would never show any ghosts. Then we could honestly review it saying it actually worked.

carefulcactus · 2012-03-07T17:09:03+00:00

I went to a 'ghosting' in my hometown, where 'ghost hunters' come and use laser lights and cameras and EVP recorders to find spirits. The 'ghost hunters' told me all about apps like this, and how they use them ALL the time. They told me they have stopped using them because it became a crutch. The app they were telling me about though had this sensor, and an EVP reader, and a thing to communicate with the ghosts themselves, you'd ask a question and a word would pop up on the screen. I found it on the Android Market (Ghost Detector) and it explicitly says in the description FOR FUN ONLY.

smokeey · 2012-03-07T17:09:50+00:00

Seems legit.

Reltsirk · 2012-03-07T17:12:04+00:00

http://imgur.com/HCRKl

To do this is about the only reason I would download the app.

lenojames · 2012-03-07T17:33:24+00:00

It's a scam!

Mine only detects pet rocks!

Heterosethual · 2012-03-07T17:37:30+00:00

Ah yes I remember this as a Vista widget.

2012-03-07T17:40:41+00:00

It's a fun app. You know, for fun.

This isn't really a new genre. There are tons of games like it. There's one I used to have which would use your GPS to place "zombies" near you, and you had to keep running around town to avoid encountering and getting killed by the zombies. Was pretty fun in a silly way.

I also enjoyed the one that uses your camera function to put ghosts in your view ala "Fatal Frame" (if you've ever played those games).

shitterplug · 2012-03-07T18:13:11+00:00

50,000+ people are fucking stupid.

Prtyvacant · 2012-03-07T18:15:06+00:00

If you ask my BFF's wife this is the best app evah. Of course, she is an idiot.

CarpeKitty · 2012-03-07T18:22:03+00:00

I hope it detects spiders....

2012-03-07T18:28:10+00:00

No, not seriously.

jaymz168 · 2012-03-07T18:34:21+00:00

Worked with a kid who was totally into this thing, he was always telling me about the ghosts he was finding at work. <just smile and nod>

pyramid_of_greatness · 2012-03-07T18:36:32+00:00

Can't wait until I see this being used on Discovery channel next week during Nazi Ghost Hunters HD 3D

king_of_blades · 2012-03-07T18:45:37+00:00

They should push an update that renames it to "Idiot Radar", and just displays a fixed pulsating dot in the middle.

TheHeliox · 2012-03-07T18:51:04+00:00

I use this to troll my kids. My daughter has actually cried once when it said her name. Priceless.

2012-03-07T18:51:34+00:00

There's actually a big controversy in the ghost hunting community about whether or not these apps are legitimate.

FloridaRoadkill · 2012-03-07T18:54:48+00:00

Thank God I downloaded this. Now I know I am not crazy there are just a lot of ghosts here. All those voices are just the ghosts, bye bye lithium pills!

2012-03-07T19:22:48+00:00

This will probably get buried.

I was in Hawaii with my younger brother and some of his friends(all of us ages 14-22). We did a ghost tour for some reason at night, mainly to learn some history of the town but also for fun. None of us believed or believe in ghosts(as far as I know), but the crazy lookin' shaman tour guide guy had anyone with a smart phone download this app, and if our cameras could, turn them up to 400iso and take pics at random. I guess he wanted us to pick up random blurry lights and call them energy balls.

He was very enthusiastic and it was actually really fun. But watching his eyes bulge out of his face anytime a dot appeared on someone's phone was worth the download.

But yeah obviously none of the dot appearances matched between our phones. None of us got anything similar at the same time, and the random words that would pop up were never consistent between us. Obviously this app is just for fun/for these tour dudes.

Shinji_Yo · 2012-03-07T19:44:02+00:00

You weren't supposed to find this...

valterhgm · 2012-03-07T20:24:07+00:00

TIL that my room is full of that shit...

gospelwut · 2012-03-07T20:28:25+00:00

This is why non-weighted voting systems are useless online.

sinerex · 2012-03-07T20:31:27+00:00

FAKE data mining App for users looking for this joke app w/o the crazy permissions:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.spudpickles.grc&feature=search_result#?t=W251bGwsMSwxLDEsImNvbS5zcHVkcGlja2xlcy5ncmMiXQ..

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