Well, they never really experimented with it per say - while they worked together, a number of odd occurrences would happen, usually with small-scale electronics.
A) They used a dongle to take readings from an apnea scanner (measures heart rate, respiration, etc in apnea patients) once a month - this woman could walk up, plug the device in, and the thing would absolutely refuse to pull the data off. She could hand it to someone else (including my professor) and they would try it and it wouldn't work. She would step back a few paces and the thing started pulling data off. This happened every time she attempted to use the device over the course of six months with multiple patients and multiple usb dongles - she eventually just started passing it off to others.
B) When her old manual-wind watch died, she went through a dozen or so battery powered watches of various makes/models in the span of five months - out of frustration she got a self-winding watch with zero electrical components - it's worked fine since.
C) She has to use a wired keyboard and mouse for data entry at her workstation because wireless ones cease function when she attempts to use them - my professor found this out first hand (he was a junior admin at the time) because every time he tried to troubleshoot it and she stepped back, it worked - the moment she got within a foot or so of it, it would lose connection to the computer.
D) She had to keep her USB Passkey (goldkey) away from her person because it would erase the access information on it - she ended up going through 3 of them and also killed a loner key that my professor gave her the second time hers died.
I wonder if she de-gausses her credit cards.
She never kept them with her and kept her purse (along with her phone and keyfob for her car) away from her while she was working.
There were other instances he told us about but I can't remember them off the top of my head - he's admitted he doesn't know what to make of it - to him, she's just one of those people that "kills computers by walking past them", but on a much larger scale lol...
@ adoucette - once again, you are failing to see the obvious and instead looking simply for an excuse to throw insults around - this is something that he encountered MANY years ago (over a decade now). It was an interesting story he told to us because it pertained to how, even now at our school, there are some people that simple SHOULD NOT be allowed to use a computer because they WILL find a way to break it. I merely found it interesting and figured I'd come here (to a place where I MOST people are mature enough to discuss something such as this in an adult manner without dripping sarcasm from every word) and share the story and see if anyone else had heard of something like it before.
Now, if you have nothing constructive to add to the topic, nobody is forcing you to read it, much less comment to cry BS.
