RFID chips are super cool because those little buggers can beam things wirelessly. The guys at Mythbusters totally thought so too and wanted to make an episode about how trackable and hackable RFID chips were. Sounds amazing! Everyone would've learned more about the technology that's invisibly invading our lines. But, nope. Credit Card companies banned 'em.
Specifically, it looks like the lawyers of Visa, American Express, Discover and all the other bigwig debt slurpin' credit card companies got in immediate contact with Discovery (the network that airs Mythbusters) and told 'em if Savage and crew did the episode, the credit card companies would pull its advertisements and commercials from Discovery. Discovery caved and the RFID episode was axes. Bummer. [Disinfo via @bxchen]
Swordfish08 on January 3rd, 2019 at 00:39 UTC »
I was at a live show that Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman did several years ago, and they did a few short Q&As throughout. During one of these, Adam told the audience that they also had to nix an episode about whether bottled water or tap water was cleaner. Apparently, the results were that tap water was cleaner and it wasn't even particularly close, but Coke and Pepsi weren't too happy with it...
to_the_tenth_power on January 2nd, 2019 at 22:45 UTC »
I think they sort of busted the myth anyway lol
shrekthaboiisreal on January 2nd, 2019 at 22:39 UTC »
They also have an episode where they made a large and powerful bomb using household materials which they decided not to release and delete all their footage to keep people from being able to replicate it.