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Boasting as 1/2 Ovilus and 1/2 Puck, the PX appears to be the perfect upgrade between the two devices. Reportedly the PX has twice the vocabulary as the Ovilus and over three times the vocabulary as the Puck. I owned neither device though have toyed with the Ovilus in the past getting some interesting if not-quite-compelling results.

For Christmas last year, however, my wife decided to pre order me one so we would have our own 'advanced ITC' device in our research toolkit. Although the device was supposed to be here in February, that got pushed back to March when I got it the last week of that month and the device finally arrived.

I was less-than-thrilled with the price my wife paid, $179 for the device, especially when that funding would have purchased us a Mel-meter, a 3-in-1 investigation tool. Still, the PX claims a lot of cool features:

• A Dictionary mode which turns EMF frequency alterations in the environment into words.
• A Phonetic mode that, reportedly, speaks more words, even bordering on sentences.
• Reverse phonetic mode - the same as above, but the words come out in reverse. Um, okay?
• Touch mode. This one we've had the most success with. When there's an EM fluctuation, a 'ping' that sounds like a submarine signal, sounds off.
• And Voice Change Mode - similar, yet different, to the first Dictionary mode.

When I got the PX, finally, I wasn't real impressed. First off, going to slip some batteries into the device to fire it up, I noticed warning upon warning to put the batteries in the exact, right, way. Failure to do so could short the device and ruin it forever. Well, no pressure there, but hell, I've put lots of batteries into devices in the past so I figured I wouldn't have a problem.

Then, however, I noticed the old-school, 15-pin serial port on the bottom of the device. Couple this with the cheap flip-switch and least-expensive button to toggle the modes, and I started to seriously question the quality of my PX. The questions increased when I went online to Digital Dowsing.com and read up on some of the 'features' of the PX. It seems that, to connect it to a computer, the 15-pin serial was the one and only way. Um, that sucks. Every laptop I have is short such an old port, they only have USB ports. Well, piss, that means I'll have to choke up some extra $ for a compatible cable that goes from 15-pin serial to USB. I finally found one and went out to download the software.

Okay, got the Windows version of the application, now for the Mac version, which, was boasted on the website at the time, would certainly work with the PX. Wait...what's this? The Mac link for the software is broken? Oh, that's okay, I'll fire off an email so it get's corrected. The reply? It seems the Mac version of the software has some...well...technical issues and won't be out for several months.

Fuck.

Oh well, I can still use the Ovilus feature on it's own, and the Puck capability on my Toshiba. At least I have that, right? Well, for the last three investigations I've been noticing something; the PX isn't quite as responsive as it used to be. It'd sit quietly without so much as a beep, the light indicating what mode the device is on flashing quietly. Even when I pick it up, which should fluctuate the EMF around the device enough to cause 'some' reaction, gave none, so now I'm questioning the integrity of the device itself.

Oh...and it's falling apart on top of the technical problems and backwards interface technology. The face plate on the top of my PX is losing it's bonding to the rest of the device and it's working it's way off.

Yeah. Great. The PX sells for $159 plus shipping and handling, now, but even dropping $20, this device is NOT worth it. Results are "spotty" at best and toying with this device during an investigation makes me genuinely question the EM link with the paranormal.

Rating - F...for Fail.