For older packs it would. But the Pokemon company would just make packs with material that can't be seen through with an x ray. and they will up the price of packs to cover the extra material.
@@Narcle0 this is correct. This is not a problem than can be easily solved, and it poses a HUGE problem if card sellers decide to take advantage of it with how big the market is right now.
Actually I've got some ideas in the provisional for ways to prevent scanning like this. To partner with the card companies and stop evil people like me
@@sweepingmotionyeah pretty sure you can return unopened packs so you could just buy a shit load of loose packs go scan then then return what isn’t worth it
@@Nick-md9fx West valley, my bad. I actually told them I was planning on trying this so if you mention the video they might remember. Just please be nice!
There’s a massive problem with this. Anyone buying loose packs moving forward takes a big risk of buying a pack that an individual knows good and well that you’re not gonna pull anything good/valuable, but they’re still going to charge you the full sealed booster pack price. Sad world we live in.
@@visualthought9215 I mean he literally says as much in the video and description - he's been working on it for a while but someone else beat him to the punch with going public, such is life in academia
You can make money off it, but you can make less than you think. You have to sell the cards, you don't just magically get the money they are 'worth'. The market can only absorb so much product in a given amount of time.
9:30 so PSA 11 if you leave it in the foil pack without opening the actual foil card. If we step this up, where you buy the entire multi-pack box without opening that either, would that be a multiplier of how many cards packs are in the box, or does it just jump to a PSA 12? Assuming we could CT scan the entire box in the same way.
The CAT is out the bag now! 😅The next generation of pack weighing is here. Due to the upfront cost and expertise needed I’m not too worried about it commonly being used in an unethical way. I could see a future partnership with PSA for their pack grading service to put the holo on the label.
You realize, nobody stops all those massive sellers to set this up now right? there are so many ppl who invest into tcg and buy TONS of boxes and re sell them, they will all be scanned and you will see less and less serielized cards and so on, it might not be happening alot right away, but give it some time and all big sellers will do it, its just a smart long term investment to get one of these machines and set it up, every new set, they will make ALOT of money with it. we should all hope for anti scan packs in the future, LOL
If this guy can do it as a side project for a couple thousand then professional card sellers absolutely will be able to do it better with a lot more resources.
"So if this was a PSA 10 when you opened it...well, what would it be, when it's still in the pack? It's an 11?.....I don't know" Lmao I like the train of thought on the God Grade. With your luck they will end up grading the pack and it will come out as a 4. Lol.
actually a cards grade basically has nothing to do with how pack fresh it is. Cards regularly come directly out of packs at less than a 10. In fact, its pretty rare to see. A card that is a 9 after its pulled is still a 9 in the pack assuming you didnt damage it during the pulling process
@@marcello9476True. I have seen many RUclipsrs being very sad after they pulled a card from a pack and then it got PSA 9 or less because the card is slightly off-centered or it has some minor printing error. The pack need to be opened to see how good grade the card actually has.
homie is doing the lords work punishing scalpers scooping up sealed and guiding timmy down the path of BUYING SINGLES. side note: this vid was interesting and you should buy more cheap packs just to show whats in them
I once said to my mate a 3-4 years ago I wondered if anyone has tried to X-ray a pack of Pokémon cards, perhaps someone has even been doing this before your video, buying packs to scan to get those best pulls, honestly it wouldn’t surprise me. Fair play for releasing a video about it!
I think this would be interesting too! And people have a favorite card is what I'm thinking, maybe people would be willing to pay a premium even for a guaranteed magneton if that's their favorite
@@redsai666thank you, finally someone who has common sense. all these people saying "it could be used in real ways!!!!" no it can't be. any "Real" authentic service they think of will be counteracted by bad actions. "people would love opening guaranteed foils" well yeah ofc, and the person scanning the packs would also love to open guaranteed $5000 cards & sell the crap foils.
I think this would be a game changer for sealed product grading. Hard to say if this will change the pricing of sealed due to how expensive this process is in terms of time and money. Really cool video and idea, hope you get a chance to patent it!
From a knee jerk reaction. This is brilliant. As a Pokémon collector, specifically for vintage pokemon cards, this is something I always wondered about if possible. This could be used for instances where you can charge a fee to see if a pack is true heavy. If you can use this to scan authenticity then this is something ALOT of collectors including myself would be interested in.
What? How is that authentic? If you own 2 packs and you CT scan them and find out which cards are in them, what stops you from selling the ones you didn't want? "is a true heavy" so first you've weighed it, morally incorrect. secondly, you've scanned it. Now you know what has a Charizard and what doesn't how is any of that authentic in the nature of Pokemon TCG? Since you now know what is inside the pack, you have no value for the other ones. which completely invalidates the whole "authentic collector" vibe of what you just said :D A LOT of collectors including myself would rather people not be able to do anything remotely close to this. a vintage booster box is tens of thousands, a vintage booster is between hundreds and thousands of dollars, the cards inside are potentially worth $10-$50k or more. None of that sounds authentic to me. a true COLLECTOR :D
I understand that we have no control over bad actors using this technology for nefarious purposes, which is unfortunate. However, my main concern is ensuring that my collection, on which I’ve spent tens of thousands of dollars, is truly authentic. I’ve primarily purchased items on eBay, trusting that they are genuine and untampered. My point is that a service like this could provide reassurance that my most precious and expensive collection pieces are authentic. I believe there is significant value in knowing that your collection is genuine. From a purist standpoint, I agree that the magic and mystery are diminished with CT-scanned packs and boxes, raising the issue of people potentially pulling the good packs and selling the duds. I dislike this as much as anyone else and hope the hobby can remain healthy despite these new events. Finally, whether a casual or serious collector, I always prioritize what brings me the most enjoyment. Cheers
@@kidtury Mate... EXACTLY MY point.... you just proved my point even more while trying to push yours.... you legitimately said "However, my main concern is ensuring that my collection, on which I’ve spent tens of thousands of dollars, is truly authentic" Okay now you've scanned your tens of thousands of dollars worth of packs how do we THE REST OF THE WORLD know you're never going to sell them or do exactly the same thing & list them as "heavy", "light" how do we know that you don't go scan all your packets that are heavy, find the only valuable cards in the heavies. aka 1st edition zards, now you know which one has a zard in it. why would you even bother opening or keeping the other 9000 dollars' worth of products? oh because you're a good guy and we should trust you? No thank you. PS I'm not personally attacking you I'm speaking as a whole for everybody channels, people, ebay stores, card shops, the guy who made the CT scanner, even for myself I should not be allowed to scan packs because I myself also can go do bad things. there is no argument to how this would truly be 100% authentic, if you immediately open every pack you scan then yes it would be fine. but is the point of scanning the packs if you're going to open them anyway? you spend all that money to scan them just for you to open it no matter what? because let's be real if they scan no good cards, you're not opening them.
Make it a side business to analyze packs at a fixed price, like 250 bucks a pack, and you will have people buy. It's not ethical, because they are going to sell packs depending on what you tell them, but it's a salary for the amazing work you did.
@@adomniapericula no, I don't think it's steep. Pokémon boosters worth knowing what's inside are limited, it can be only the rarest, jungle first edition, base set, neo Genesis etc. The process of scanning a booster takes a long time, from what I can see, and the process of learning how to scan a booster also took a long time. When a business sells a service, the research time is comprised in the price, because it's time during which there was no money made. Knowing which boosters have which holo makes it possible to have base set shadowless boosters, keep only the crazy rarities one, and sell the rest. The wheiged ones that don't contain extremely rare holo can still be sold at very high price. One can open a booster box, weigh the boosters, ask for a scan of each of the weighted ones, keep the ones containing very expensive cards and sell the rest as weighed
This is old news, a friend who worked in concrete scanning and GPR has been doing this for years for a game store who is an aquantence from high-school, this is why you never buy loose packs
Will be interesting to see how this effects the market. I was frequently buying WOTC boxes to break to sell heavies and am currently putting that on hold
I think the market will stay about the same for loose vintage packs. Prior to this process, it was safe to assume loose vintage packs were weighed. The main concern I see is people repacking lower rated holos and selling as mint sealed.
This is awesome. I'm glad you went public with this. Now if you find a way to scan what's under the stuff on lottery tickets without scratching the ticket...don't go public with that because you could be a multi millionaire with that shit.
First of all congratulations, absolutely astounding. Never change. Secondly open the packs to confirm. Third I wonder if the scale could be done on a booster box. I would definitely test a more modern product. And then open it as well to see if your calculations are 100%. Amazing lad, cheers.
This is honestly interesting to know and I'm sure you shared this info without any malicious intent. But now that you opened and released Pandora's box, all the shady awful people with disposable income will buy these and make the collecting scene worse than it is
Oh it is open since a long long time ago but - for reasons… - nobody showed it directly at youtube/ the internet. Thats the difference. Friend of mine tried this at work years ago with a Zeis 3D xray (I think it was a Metrotom or other model) and it worked pretty well. But yeah that was it… was like „yeah work, anyway…“ since none of us is into trading cards.
Man, you essentially created another possible category for certifying packs, and possibly offering graded packs with certified/verified contents. This is your multi-million dollar idea man. Contact PSA, show them, and stack your cash.
@@GgvGg-ln6bw XD Pokemon gives out $10000 for winning tournaments. We are getting paid to play the game we enjoy. You are the loser for hating on people just having fun.
Building a machine that focuses X-rays onto Pokemon cards. 'clearly my focus is on Pokemon cards'. Clearly hehe. That's an absolutely amazing project. Would love to see more about the basic concept of turning the scans into clear data.. Seems like magic
Alpha and Beta Magic the Gathering boosters would be a fun to look at - starter decks? Maybe some old Sports packs? Maybe a sealed tin with an old tobacco card. Limitless possibilities
Dude, this can work 1) you need to make get create a image pack of each release of cards, the cheap cards you actually CT scan, the expensive ones you have to replicate the image as a binary image. Then a Good AI image matcher would be able to ID the cards. This would give you a good layer of confidence to sell the pack sealed or if its worth opening. This coudl really fuck up the market for sealed packs
why does this video haven't reached 1 or 2 mil views yet? why other videos of people who actually is talking about this, but they are not the current "discoverer" of this, are getting more views? wtf ? give this man credit.
Your work is very impressive. Would you be interested in scanning tobacco packs that from 100+ years ago? Would be exciting to see those unopened tobacco packs have tobacco cards inside or not.
This is actually great for sealed box collectors because now they (like PWCC) at some point won't need to tear off the seal and search the box to make sure the packs are real. Hurts my soul seeing the plastic come off just to make sure it's not a scam.
This is just like the video of the guy opening the CGC graded comic cases. The it turns out other people had already been doing it for years. Theoretically he’s not the first to “discover” this method just brining it to everyone’s attention that it’s possible.
some millionaire collector is gonna buy one of those $1.4m aerospace CT machines to scan a whole box... goodbye pack openings, the market's definitely gonna be exclusively card trading from now on
This been going on for a few years now. They are mostly doing it on high valuable sports cards boxes. They are seeing logoman 1/1 from boxes now! It’s not even safe buying sealed boxes from a 3rd party!
Would you please take one pack that you scanned and opened to show undoubted truth that this works. Go buy a cheap current pack and do this to it and record the CT findings then open the pack to prove 1000% that it works.
It’s a schroedinger’s cat situation. You know the card that’s in the pack, but it’ll never be opened, so is the card you think is in there really actually in there?
You heard that wubby from magic Monday is interested in working with you in regards to magic the gathering? He also linked to your video. Also some very very impressive work here!
Wow; this is an amazing accomplishment!! I cant imagine the feeling of being one of the first people of the planet to invent AND achieve something with it!! I really hope you are able to make something big with this! If there is any proprietary technology behind what you made; you could patent it and create an entire company around this idea of being able to scan inside almost any collectible card sleeve for foils! There are so many ways you could run with this invention! 1.) You could manufacture the machines and sell them outright to everyone (targeting card shop owners to get inital interest and starting the "word-of-mouth" effect) 2.) You could get a patent on any I.P. you may have created and sell the patent to someone WITH royalties attached for every future sale. 3.) You could open up a chain of card shops that use your machine to scan any collectible card packs... You can seperate the hits from the rest of the packs and put them out on the shelves and mark them as "guarenteed hits" and you would make a fortune! THANK YOU for showing the world what you made and also letting people know exactly HOW this tech works so that they are informed for the future!!
I actually think I would like to keep him sealed. I have gotten a request for the Pinsir though - this is something I was hoping for, but there are people who specifically want a card that's not considered a "hit" just because they like it!
closed packs with guarantee hit inside and you know what the hit is? IMO thats worth more than the PSA 10 of that card... so I would imagine you could sell the pack with proof for the PSA10 price + a tax for sealed
How would this be worth more than a psa 10? Odds are manufacturing flaws are included, it just means you can guarantee a certain pokemon holo. Just like buying raw the implied value is lower than a psa 10 until it is given a psa 10.
Thank you for trying to start a patent on this to keep it widely unavailable without buying and using one of these machines because there are lots of people who make a living off of these cards and something like this crashing the value of all of them would ruin lives
Getting rid of the gambling aspect would not crash the market. It would allow for the market to better determine the value of card packs. It would help avoid people overpaying for packs with cheap cards in them and underpaying for packs with expensive cards in them.
@@gyroninjamodder that would make sense if every pack ever was scanned but what would happen if he didnt patent this is a few people would scan a lot of packs and only open the ones giving them a profit and then they would sell the packs with nothing in them at regular price making it very bad to purchase packs anywhere and it would greatly decrease the demand and value of sealed items dropping the value greatly
@@Xonoriuss The card within all packs still have value and if the price dropped greatly people could buy them and sell the cards for profit which would increase demand of the packs.
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Bro just invented the PSA 11
😂😂😂
No cap 😂
Interesting way to get PSA 10 by knowing if card inside is centered well.
You’re right, wow.
"Mint. Untouched. UNOPENED" 😂😂
this will be the death of the loose pack market lol
good it was already a shitfest of scam
For older packs it would. But the Pokemon company would just make packs with material that can't be seen through with an x ray. and they will up the price of packs to cover the extra material.
@@k9thundra Doubt. Costs to much. Plus the only effective x-ray deflecting material is lead and that's not happening.
@@Narcle0 this is correct. This is not a problem than can be easily solved, and it poses a HUGE problem if card sellers decide to take advantage of it with how big the market is right now.
Actually I've got some ideas in the provisional for ways to prevent scanning like this. To partner with the card companies and stop evil people like me
“Well ya know sonny, back in my day, we used to weigh packs. Nowadays we use X-rays.”
How times have changed.
You think they’ll let me bring this into Target??
😂
Hahahaha
Would you be able to return unopened packs after buying them ?
@@sweepingmotionyeah pretty sure you can return unopened packs so you could just buy a shit load of loose packs go scan then then return what isn’t worth it
@@AMGRandomness Many stores (Walmart, Target) do not accept returns on any TCG products.
My takeaway is I need to fly to Utah to find reasonably priced vintage packs
The Nerd Store in Ogden, Utah.
@WaynesStrangeBrain
I only see one in west valley and Orem
@@Nick-md9fx West valley, my bad. I actually told them I was planning on trying this so if you mention the video they might remember. Just please be nice!
and a CT scanner
@@WaynesStrangeBrainI live in Riverton so thanks for the tip
PSA 8 grades come straight out of fresh packs all the time, manufacturing quality is always a factor, and so is the inconsistency of grading.
Totally true! There's plenty of luck still involved. Also, all the other non-foils, like can we get some love for Bulbasaur #1?
The grade rating is subjective, though. Has PSA even hired a new Pokemon expert guy yet?
There’s a massive problem with this. Anyone buying loose packs moving forward takes a big risk of buying a pack that an individual knows good and well that you’re not gonna pull anything good/valuable, but they’re still going to charge you the full sealed booster pack price. Sad world we live in.
Market will adjust accordingly. When no one is buying, the price will drop
oh supply and demand, you never fail us@@arongilbert5828
Boxes can be scanned too
@@GrubThompson That’s honestly rather scary that an entire box can be scanned. Major cause for concern for the buyers hoping to pull some major fire.
The solution to this is being able to buy from konami directly.
i mean your sitting on a billion dollar invention and you uploaded the findings on youtube, i have to love you for that
my gut tells me he’s not the first/only one who knows about this… kinda scary actually.
@@visualthought9215 I mean he literally says as much in the video and description - he's been working on it for a while but someone else beat him to the punch with going public, such is life in academia
@@totallycarbon2106 i meant in a sense its already being used and packs are already being redistributed in this manner.. but thanks captain obvious
The military can already scan through entire books. The tech is already far more developed behind the scenes @@visualthought9215
You can make money off it, but you can make less than you think. You have to sell the cards, you don't just magically get the money they are 'worth'. The market can only absorb so much product in a given amount of time.
Never buying a pack ever again, thanks to you
We got people opening Pokémon packs without opening them before GTA 6
9:30 so PSA 11 if you leave it in the foil pack without opening the actual foil card. If we step this up, where you buy the entire multi-pack box without opening that either, would that be a multiplier of how many cards packs are in the box, or does it just jump to a PSA 12? Assuming we could CT scan the entire box in the same way.
It's a CT.scan version of Who,s that Pokemon !? 🤓
It’s pickachuuuuuuu
Exactly what I was thinkin
I've gotta get a CT scan on Friday do I have them do my card packs too? 🧐
The CAT is out the bag now! 😅The next generation of pack weighing is here. Due to the upfront cost and expertise needed I’m not too worried about it commonly being used in an unethical way. I could see a future partnership with PSA for their pack grading service to put the holo on the label.
You realize, nobody stops all those massive sellers to set this up now right? there are so many ppl who invest into tcg and buy TONS of boxes and re sell them, they will all be scanned and you will see less and less serielized cards and so on, it might not be happening alot right away, but give it some time and all big sellers will do it, its just a smart long term investment to get one of these machines and set it up, every new set, they will make ALOT of money with it. we should all hope for anti scan packs in the future, LOL
If this guy can do it as a side project for a couple thousand then professional card sellers absolutely will be able to do it better with a lot more resources.
This takes "Whos That Pokémon" to a whole new level.
"So if this was a PSA 10 when you opened it...well, what would it be, when it's still in the pack? It's an 11?.....I don't know" Lmao I like the train of thought on the God Grade. With your luck they will end up grading the pack and it will come out as a 4. Lol.
@@joshuajohnson3666 it's kind of crazy that pack grading is just based on the outside of the pack as it is!
actually a cards grade basically has nothing to do with how pack fresh it is. Cards regularly come directly out of packs at less than a 10. In fact, its pretty rare to see. A card that is a 9 after its pulled is still a 9 in the pack assuming you didnt damage it during the pulling process
@@marcello9476True. I have seen many RUclipsrs being very sad after they pulled a card from a pack and then it got PSA 9 or less because the card is slightly off-centered or it has some minor printing error. The pack need to be opened to see how good grade the card actually has.
@@Pehmokettu Yes exactly
homie is doing the lords work punishing scalpers scooping up sealed and guiding timmy down the path of BUYING SINGLES.
side note: this vid was interesting and you should buy more cheap packs just to show whats in them
I once said to my mate a 3-4 years ago I wondered if anyone has tried to X-ray a pack of Pokémon cards, perhaps someone has even been doing this before your video, buying packs to scan to get those best pulls, honestly it wouldn’t surprise me. Fair play for releasing a video about it!
New collector challenge. Complete holo master set with sealed packs 😂 put a little screen shot image with every pack to shows what’s in the pack 😎
That would be cool! I'm sort of already working on that for 151 but just for naked cards. Maybe I can do a shorts series for what they all look like
Bro discovered an infinite money glitch
This is Applied Physics. I salute you. Pioneer.
You can sell guaranteed premium packs without saying what card it is people would love to open up packs with guranteed foils.
I think this would be interesting too! And people have a favorite card is what I'm thinking, maybe people would be willing to pay a premium even for a guaranteed magneton if that's their favorite
Guarenteed not to have too pull though
Would you sell a guaranteed Charizard.. lol. Didn't think so. It's over. This hobby is done.
@@redsai666thank you, finally someone who has common sense. all these people saying "it could be used in real ways!!!!" no it can't be. any "Real" authentic service they think of will be counteracted by bad actions. "people would love opening guaranteed foils" well yeah ofc, and the person scanning the packs would also love to open guaranteed $5000 cards & sell the crap foils.
I think this would be a game changer for sealed product grading. Hard to say if this will change the pricing of sealed due to how expensive this process is in terms of time and money.
Really cool video and idea, hope you get a chance to patent it!
I would love to partner with PSA as an add-on to their existing service - grade the outside of the pack, then the inside
@@WaynesStrangeBrainI hope you’re able to make lots of money off of this !
Anyone buying loose packs are already doomed before this.
Dang, imagine finding goldstars from ex packs with this method.
This is crazy dude, amazing work and really interesting backstory on how you managed to do it! Great vid🎉
Wow, this is absolutely incredible! What an amazing video i stumbled upon, very impressive work!
From a knee jerk reaction. This is brilliant. As a Pokémon collector, specifically for vintage pokemon cards, this is something I always wondered about if possible. This could be used for instances where you can charge a fee to see if a pack is true heavy. If you can use this to scan authenticity then this is something ALOT of collectors including myself would be interested in.
Yeah you could scan packs for the hit and if it's not like charzard then you sell the pack and buy another pack it's a endless money glich
You can even scan whether or not a baby giraffe or a baby trex coming out.
What? How is that authentic? If you own 2 packs and you CT scan them and find out which cards are in them, what stops you from selling the ones you didn't want? "is a true heavy" so first you've weighed it, morally incorrect. secondly, you've scanned it. Now you know what has a Charizard and what doesn't how is any of that authentic in the nature of Pokemon TCG? Since you now know what is inside the pack, you have no value for the other ones. which completely invalidates the whole "authentic collector" vibe of what you just said :D A LOT of collectors including myself would rather people not be able to do anything remotely close to this. a vintage booster box is tens of thousands, a vintage booster is between hundreds and thousands of dollars, the cards inside are potentially worth $10-$50k or more. None of that sounds authentic to me. a true COLLECTOR :D
I understand that we have no control over bad actors using this technology for nefarious purposes, which is unfortunate. However, my main concern is ensuring that my collection, on which I’ve spent tens of thousands of dollars, is truly authentic. I’ve primarily purchased items on eBay, trusting that they are genuine and untampered.
My point is that a service like this could provide reassurance that my most precious and expensive collection pieces are authentic. I believe there is significant value in knowing that your collection is genuine. From a purist standpoint, I agree that the magic and mystery are diminished with CT-scanned packs and boxes, raising the issue of people potentially pulling the good packs and selling the duds. I dislike this as much as anyone else and hope the hobby can remain healthy despite these new events. Finally, whether a casual or serious collector, I always prioritize what brings me the most enjoyment. Cheers
@@kidtury Mate... EXACTLY MY point.... you just proved my point even more while trying to push yours.... you legitimately said "However, my main concern is ensuring that my collection, on which I’ve spent tens of thousands of dollars, is truly authentic" Okay now you've scanned your tens of thousands of dollars worth of packs how do we THE REST OF THE WORLD know you're never going to sell them or do exactly the same thing & list them as "heavy", "light" how do we know that you don't go scan all your packets that are heavy, find the only valuable cards in the heavies. aka 1st edition zards, now you know which one has a zard in it. why would you even bother opening or keeping the other 9000 dollars' worth of products? oh because you're a good guy and we should trust you? No thank you.
PS I'm not personally attacking you I'm speaking as a whole for everybody channels, people, ebay stores, card shops, the guy who made the CT scanner, even for myself I should not be allowed to scan packs because I myself also can go do bad things. there is no argument to how this would truly be 100% authentic, if you immediately open every pack you scan then yes it would be fine. but is the point of scanning the packs if you're going to open them anyway? you spend all that money to scan them just for you to open it no matter what? because let's be real if they scan no good cards, you're not opening them.
Omg the Strongbad Email reference. That was hilarious
Singlehandedly shook the whole market, oh my
Not only does the ego make us want to get a reward after hard work, the ego makes us describe our work as “hard” to the internet
"The average iq of this group of people was very very high... and the outliers were even higher" 🤓
Bro just broke the pokemon economy
Taking "Whos that pokemon?!" to the next level 💀
You’ve changed the game forever brother, jeezz. This is crazy
Make it a side business to analyze packs at a fixed price, like 250 bucks a pack, and you will have people buy. It's not ethical, because they are going to sell packs depending on what you tell them, but it's a salary for the amazing work you did.
250 a pack would be a bit steep, don't you think
@@adomniapericula no, I don't think it's steep. Pokémon boosters worth knowing what's inside are limited, it can be only the rarest, jungle first edition, base set, neo Genesis etc.
The process of scanning a booster takes a long time, from what I can see, and the process of learning how to scan a booster also took a long time. When a business sells a service, the research time is comprised in the price, because it's time during which there was no money made.
Knowing which boosters have which holo makes it possible to have base set shadowless boosters, keep only the crazy rarities one, and sell the rest. The wheiged ones that don't contain extremely rare holo can still be sold at very high price. One can open a booster box, weigh the boosters, ask for a scan of each of the weighted ones, keep the ones containing very expensive cards and sell the rest as weighed
@@adomniapericulaSome people are consumed by greed, he is one (or he's just stupid)
This is old news, a friend who worked in concrete scanning and GPR has been doing this for years for a game store who is an aquantence from high-school, this is why you never buy loose packs
This is definitely going to hurt a lot of people card investments if this works on modern packs as well
how exactly? Not everybody cant get a goddamn ~2000$ scanner via Pick Up truck lmao
@@junkenst8281 youd be surprised the volume of some of these merchants dude, thousands and thousands of packs
@@junkenst8281Some people have millions in sealed Pokemon cards. What are you talking about?
@@junkenst8281 if money is involved... people will find a way.
@@junkenst8281 not everybody, but nearly everybody who can afford packs & boxes worth scanning can. remember that.
Will be interesting to see how this effects the market. I was frequently buying WOTC boxes to break to sell heavies and am currently putting that on hold
This is amazing work. You are an earthly treasure. Thanks for sharing.
I think the market will stay about the same for loose vintage packs. Prior to this process, it was safe to assume loose vintage packs were weighed.
The main concern I see is people repacking lower rated holos and selling as mint sealed.
Absolutely brilliant. Thank you for the breakdown and efforts!
Great work, Now you got me looking at how much this thing costs. This is a great idea for a mail in service.
Already exists. $75 per pack
This channel about to explode. I’m calling it. Great video btw. Subscribed.
PSA will be slamming through your front door...lmao...what you have done is above GOD mode ..
Ya he shook the game
Bro became a millionaire just like that
We'll see if they respond favorably to my linkedin message! PSA: If you're reading this, I am the utmost of professionals...
@@WaynesStrangeBrain Uh oh.. here comes the train ... CHOO CHOO
Plz explain what is above GOD mode.
This is awesome. I'm glad you went public with this. Now if you find a way to scan what's under the stuff on lottery tickets without scratching the ticket...don't go public with that because you could be a multi millionaire with that shit.
Losing tickets wouldn't be worth the radiation spent on them. Scanners like this cost a fortune to run
@@JakesFavoritesis it the electricity?
@@growganic And the radioactive cartridges that fuel the X-ray emissions. You saw him building it!
Strongbad reference in 2024. Good man. I actually say that whenever there's two of things and i forgot where it came from till now 😅
Personally I can't say the word "deleted" in any other way
@@WaynesStrangeBrain bruh, this can't be that home star running thing from 23 yrs ago..im 29. plz tell me Im lying. tHX
First of all congratulations, absolutely astounding. Never change.
Secondly open the packs to confirm.
Third I wonder if the scale could be done on a booster box. I would definitely test a more modern product. And then open it as well to see if your calculations are 100%.
Amazing lad, cheers.
There is no open pack to confirm. It's all right there.
You don't open the skull to confirm if brain is there after a CT scan do you.
Confirm what? Is there a possibility somehow a Pinsir showed up on a CT scan and it's actually a Blastoise? Lmao
came for the innovation, stayed for the philosophical commentary at the end
@@NithinJune if you're not getting rich, philosophy is all you've got
Amazing stuff! Happy you were able to see the foils. Keep it up 🔥
This is honestly interesting to know and I'm sure you shared this info without any malicious intent. But now that you opened and released Pandora's box, all the shady awful people with disposable income will buy these and make the collecting scene worse than it is
Oh it is open since a long long time ago but - for reasons… - nobody showed it directly at youtube/ the internet. Thats the difference. Friend of mine tried this at work years ago with a Zeis 3D xray (I think it was a Metrotom or other model) and it worked pretty well. But yeah that was it… was like „yeah work, anyway…“ since none of us is into trading cards.
Brings a whole new meaning to “pack fresh”.
Ive always thought about "What if an invention that did this existed for Pokemon cards?"
Man, you essentially created another possible category for certifying packs, and possibly offering graded packs with certified/verified contents. This is your multi-million dollar idea man. Contact PSA, show them, and stack your cash.
Right on the money.
Buying calls on Ahron Wayne's brain.
Not literally I hope
You did a great job. A ton of people are like, ong this is gonna crash the market.
I dont think traders are just gonna go and buy a scanner like that
The energy of this video is wild
Bro, you could sell this idea for a million dollars, this will win a prize wow
Lol no. Only losers actually care about Pokémon.
@@GgvGg-ln6bw XD Pokemon gives out $10000 for winning tournaments. We are getting paid to play the game we enjoy. You are the loser for hating on people just having fun.
@@GgvGg-ln6bwonly losers care about what others think
@GgvGg-ln6bw let me guess, you never had a father in your life and never had a childhood growing up. Sad I know but I'll pray for you. SIKE!!!!😅😅😅😅😅
Future card will be packaged in lead LOL. Or have like a card that turns red when it gets Xrayed
This was crazy. Loved learning your thought process throughout this obsession :)
Building a machine that focuses X-rays onto Pokemon cards. 'clearly my focus is on Pokemon cards'. Clearly hehe. That's an absolutely amazing project. Would love to see more about the basic concept of turning the scans into clear data.. Seems like magic
This is super interesting. Nicely done!
PSA 11 OMG. we have reached critical levels.
In the future, the collection will not be measured by nostalgia or $ but in years of life that the seller has left
Alpha and Beta Magic the Gathering boosters would be a fun to look at - starter decks?
Maybe some old Sports packs? Maybe a sealed tin with an old tobacco card.
Limitless possibilities
I'd love to see you peek into an unopened booster box.
Dude, this can work 1) you need to make get create a image pack of each release of cards, the cheap cards you actually CT scan, the expensive ones you have to replicate the image as a binary image. Then a Good AI image matcher would be able to ID the cards. This would give you a good layer of confidence to sell the pack sealed or if its worth opening. This coudl really fuck up the market for sealed packs
why does this video haven't reached 1 or 2 mil views yet? why other videos of people who actually is talking about this, but they are not the current "discoverer" of this, are getting more views? wtf ? give this man credit.
@@romanino that's the way the news goes
Your work is very impressive. Would you be interested in scanning tobacco packs that from 100+ years ago? Would be exciting to see those unopened tobacco packs have tobacco cards inside or not.
@@t206museum8 this would be pretty easy! Send me an email
This is actually great for sealed box collectors because now they (like PWCC) at some point won't need to tear off the seal and search the box to make sure the packs are real. Hurts my soul seeing the plastic come off just to make sure it's not a scam.
I've always wondered but never looked into it. Kudos to you for actually making it a reality.
Woah what a awesome video!! Thank you for sharing this story!
I dont know if you are the first to do this, but if it is, I hope you get filthy rich.
Nice job man! Reall cool working on a project and getting some results. Now start getting paid. 10k a year aint bad for a little buy and resell
This is just like the video of the guy opening the CGC graded comic cases. The it turns out other people had already been doing it for years. Theoretically he’s not the first to “discover” this method just brining it to everyone’s attention that it’s possible.
7.22 - For the real G's - That's more than enough info! Machamp, NInetails, Electrode - I LOVE THIS SO MUCH!
Good on you for patenting it and sharing!
Reminds me of Futurama and looking for the Slurm contest winning can. The future is now
some millionaire collector is gonna buy one of those $1.4m aerospace CT machines to scan a whole box... goodbye pack openings, the market's definitely gonna be exclusively card trading from now on
I hope you use your new found powers for goodness
It’s absolutely amazing how much effort someone is willing to go through.
Ahron, its Elias from freshman year / orientation .. i hope you're well man. this is the best thing I came across recently haha.
@@EliasAyoub small world! Glad it was entertaining. Hope you're doing well.
Tbh. If this works Like 80% of the time. Open Up a Store and sell "Peak a shuu" Service for 50 per scan.
This been going on for a few years now. They are mostly doing it on high valuable sports cards boxes. They are seeing logoman 1/1 from boxes now! It’s not even safe buying sealed boxes from a 3rd party!
Would you please take one pack that you scanned and opened to show undoubted truth that this works. Go buy a cheap current pack and do this to it and record the CT findings then open the pack to prove 1000% that it works.
It’s a schroedinger’s cat situation. You know the card that’s in the pack, but it’ll never be opened, so is the card you think is in there really actually in there?
You heard that wubby from magic Monday is interested in working with you in regards to magic the gathering?
He also linked to your video.
Also some very very impressive work here!
@@peoplesoft2784 nope! Appreciate you letting me know. Hope he reaches out. Thanks for the kind words!
String Bad and Map Men cutaway gags 10/10
Wow; this is an amazing accomplishment!! I cant imagine the feeling of being one of the first people of the planet to invent AND achieve something with it!!
I really hope you are able to make something big with this! If there is any proprietary technology behind what you made; you could patent it and create an entire company around this idea of being able to scan inside almost any collectible card sleeve for foils!
There are so many ways you could run with this invention!
1.) You could manufacture the machines and sell them outright to everyone (targeting card shop owners to get inital interest and starting the "word-of-mouth" effect)
2.) You could get a patent on any I.P. you may have created and sell the patent to someone WITH royalties attached for every future sale.
3.) You could open up a chain of card shops that use your machine to scan any collectible card packs... You can seperate the hits from the rest of the packs and put them out on the shelves and mark them as "guarenteed hits" and you would make a fortune!
THANK YOU for showing the world what you made and also letting people know exactly HOW this tech works so that they are informed for the future!!
Could this be done with a booster box? Where is the limit?
This is insane. You are a beast
If the gengar would be a 9 or higher, it would be worth it to open the pack
You just revolutionized the collectors market! This should have some serious fallout.
I'd love to buy that Gengar fossil pack if you're looking to sell
I actually think I would like to keep him sealed. I have gotten a request for the Pinsir though - this is something I was hoping for, but there are people who specifically want a card that's not considered a "hit" just because they like it!
@@WaynesStrangeBrain if you change your mind I'm a buyer :)
closed packs with guarantee hit inside and you know what the hit is? IMO thats worth more than the PSA 10 of that card... so I would imagine you could sell the pack with proof for the PSA10 price + a tax for sealed
How would this be worth more than a psa 10? Odds are manufacturing flaws are included, it just means you can guarantee a certain pokemon holo. Just like buying raw the implied value is lower than a psa 10 until it is given a psa 10.
So you gotta play "whos that pokemon" to decipher the rare in the pack.
Thank you for trying to start a patent on this to keep it widely unavailable without buying and using one of these machines because there are lots of people who make a living off of these cards and something like this crashing the value of all of them would ruin lives
Getting rid of the gambling aspect would not crash the market. It would allow for the market to better determine the value of card packs. It would help avoid people overpaying for packs with cheap cards in them and underpaying for packs with expensive cards in them.
@@gyroninjamodder that would make sense if every pack ever was scanned but what would happen if he didnt patent this is a few people would scan a lot of packs and only open the ones giving them a profit and then they would sell the packs with nothing in them at regular price making it very bad to purchase packs anywhere and it would greatly decrease the demand and value of sealed items dropping the value greatly
@@Xonoriuss The card within all packs still have value and if the price dropped greatly people could buy them and sell the cards for profit which would increase demand of the packs.
Lol you can't patebt this. People are so dumb.
Real life “who’s that Pokémon?!?”
"i found a XRAY CT Scanner in a guys garage"
Thats the most god damn american thing i've heard
@@dultaging don't forget 2 for the price of one, the guy was a lawyer, and he was eager to get rid of them cause his wife wanted the space
Now show us scientifically what the difference is between Left Twix and Right Twix
So thinking in a other direction, could this help to authenticate cards? Because counterfits should have an other contrast, right ?