We've launched an exciting new project of our own! Introducing the Kickstarter app for iPhone!

Funded! This project successfully raised its funding goal on December 18.

Early bird Mr.Ghosts sent!

Update #4 · Dec 19, 2012 · 21 comments

And they're off!

Some friends and I watched the whole Back to the Future trilogy and packed, labeled, and stamped the early bird orders. We finished right about when Doc and Marty have the DeLorean up to 82mph in the third one.

There are still a few early birds that have not sent in their addresses in response to the survey. Please do as soon as possible. Everyone else, I'll be sending out a survey in the new year when we're ready to ship out the other orders.

Happy holidays everyone!

-Aaron

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      Creator Amir Mortezaie on January 2

      Hi Aron,

      Just wanted to thanks you and to let you know that I got my unit... :) it is Dubai now! :)
      this morning I was playing around with it in the office, and lt's pretty cool! well done! :)

      I think you can use a bit of help on the app side... it has tones of potential, you should spend a bit of time, the UI and UX...

      Some instructions and information about how to use the app and the device would not hurt either.

      If you need help with designing the app UI/UX let me know... :)

      In the meantime... keep up the good work and I lok forward to more goodies from you side. :)

      cheers
      mate@ :)

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      Creator Aaron Rasmussen on December 28

      Hey Kristin, so far I've only sent out the surveys to the early bird backers. I'm waiting until the other Mr.Ghosts are ready to ship before sending out the address surveys for those. You'll get one at some point in February. Cheers, .aaron

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      Creator kristin bertier on December 28

      didn't get the email asking for my address, how can i get that to you?

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      Creator Doug Collins on December 27

      Thanks, Aaron. I'll keep checking the mail.

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      Creator Aaron Rasmussen on December 25

      @Doug Very sorry to hear that. Unfortunately, since it's just regular old first-class mail there's no tracking info. However, I did look up your name and your Mr.Ghost was shipped out on the 19th. If you still haven't received it in a few days, I can send a replacement.

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      Creator Doug Collins on December 25

      Haven't received mine yet. It was supposed to be an Xmas gift for my youngest. Any way to track them?

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      Creator Aaron Rasmussen on December 25

      Thanks so much for the kind comment! I'm glad your nephew liked, and your Christmas was Scrooge-free :-)

      Happy holidays, all!

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      Creator George on December 25

      thank you, thank you, thank you! The Mailman delivered our MrGhost just before we began to do our Christmas Eve celebrations! Perfect timing for me and my nephew to hunt Down the ghosts of Christmas past, present, and future! Luckily I guess we had no Scrooges this year, but we had a blast with the MrGhost device and the cool App from the App Store. It worked great in both my iPhone 4, and my iPad 2! Once again, thank you for making a great product and bringing a little science to my nephews life.

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      Creator Anbuselvan on December 24

      I got it today! @Aaron, thanks for a very cool product.

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      Creator Ryan Prescott on December 23

      @Aaron no sweat, I don't count out user error :) will try frequensee on iPhone. Thanks sir!

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      Creator Aaron Rasmussen on December 23

      @Ryan, it's possible, but if it is showing a frequency response on the Android, the antenna is good. There's a version of Frequensee available for iPhone at: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/583945921/id583945921 Go ahead and download that, and try the phone on as many devices as possible. Sometimes it makes it easier to see changes in the full spectrum instead of RMS power. Try putting it near a light switch and flicking it on and off, in most cases, you'll see a peak appear and disappear around 300hz.

      Keep in mind, Mr.Ghost detects up to 22.05khz, otherwise the phone would interfere with itself, so many laptops are shielded well enough that it doesn't pick them up. My MacBook Pro puts out basically nothing. Please email me at info@theprotagonist.co, and we can do a couple multimeter tests to make sure everything is in order.

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      Creator Ryan Prescott on December 23

      Darn, I may have gotten a bum antenna. I tried on iPhone 5, set the gain to 8 in the middle of the room and pour the ant. up against various devices -- laptops, LCD tv, android phone and the reading still appears the same. If I jiggle the connected, I see some responses. I also tried on my android using frequensee and I see some sort of higher frequency response of I put the antenna on the iPhone's screen whine it's on. I have a basic multimeter, so I can do rudimentary test s with that

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      Creator Aaron Rasmussen on December 21

      @Everyone, thank you so much!

      @Thomas I would love to hear how that goes. My friend once claimed the NMR machine degaussed his credit cards in the lab. Not sure if that was true.

      @Jamie Thank you for the well wishes: Just a heads up: the app is live in the store if you want to try it out.

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      Creator Jamie Chvotkin on December 20

      It arrived! A perfect Christmas gift. Excited your project got supported and wishing you great success!

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      Creator Thomas R. Rawson on December 20

      Aaron, until last Friday when my son Andy placed his IR Blue project on kickstarter I was unaware of the site. Spent a whole weekend exploring it and made your Mr. Ghost my first backed project. Hopefully I will find many more. I work as an analytical chemist and can't wait to check out the EMF from all our Mass Specs, HPLCs, GCs, etc. Hopefully our safety staff chemist won't have a cow if they go off scale.
      Thanks for this neat idea!

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      Creator Christian del Rosario on December 20

      Awesome stuff Aaron, you are certainly on top of this to get things out asap as you promised. Very rare in the Kickstarter world and is much appreciated and respected. Looking forward to knowing more about what that "bump" is in the night. Congrats on the successful funding and Merry Christmas!

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      Creator Jon Brence on December 19

      Love this! Keep making awesome stuff!

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      Creator George on December 19

      I'm psyched! My mailman (yep it's a guy) says, although mail from The Bay Area to Southern California only takes about three days, it can take up to seven days the other way round. I hope he's wrong, especially since I've heard the complete opposite before... No matter what, it's going to be a Happy , Haunting Holiday 'round our house this year! My nephew is coming from Florida, and he always wants to do "dead time". Boy have I got a treat for him this year! Thanks guys!

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      Creator Dana Fitkowski on December 19

      Very cool, think anyone will find the ghosts of Christmas past, present and future?

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      Creator Aaron Rasmussen on December 19

      Hahahahahahaha, Bob appreciates the compliment. :-)

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      Creator Cam MacDuff on December 19

      Dude, that's one good looking chick on your couch.
      ;-)

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    12 backers

    Get a thank you email!

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    Get a digital download of MP3's of various household appliances' EM fields in audio format. You could remix them into a weird electronic soundscape.

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    The Mr.Ghost EMF detector in white color. Shipped to you as soon as we can!

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    The Mr.Ghost EMF detector in covert gray color. Shipped to you as soon as we can!

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    The Mr.Ghost EMF detector in sexy red color. Shipped to you as soon as we can!

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    200 backers All gone!

    Early bird Mr.Ghost EMF detector. You get one Mr.Ghost antenna for iPhone, shipped via first-class mail on or before December 19th. This should get it to you by or around Christmas so you can either horde it or give it to someone as a gift. White color only. Note: This is dependent on you getting your address information to us very promptly after the close of the project. We'll send you a survey.

    Estimated delivery: Dec 2012
    Ships within the US only
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    108 backers

    The Mr.Ghost EMF detector in juicy orange color. Shipped to you as soon as we can!

    Estimated delivery: Feb 2013
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    0 backers

    Custom EMF detector with a 50 foot solid core wire antenna. Probably only marginally more sensitive, and extremely impractical. I just wanted a higher reward than $25.

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