Thatās an excellent takedown. Do you suppose weāll ever see a rebuttal?
Dave is brilliant. If you want to see his explanation of the difficulty of using WiFi to charge devices, your can see his video (11 minutes) here: http://www.eevblog.com/2010/01/17/eevblog-55-rca-airnergy-wifi-hotspot-energy-harvesting-marketing-bs/
trolley or shill? You decide.
Hi, and welcome to Boing Boing.
Had an opportunity to what, by the way?
Whatever they claim? Youāre not even going to bother saying a specific thing they claim, or even āeverything they claim,ā but just āwhatever it is that they paid me to shill about, I donāt know what it it, but Iām not being paid enough to actually find out?ā
I only withed engineers once. Never again. Couldnāt get the lubricants out of my sofa for months!
Iāll side with Dave Jones on this one. Sorry, (apparent) Troll/Shill/Astroturfer.
Query:
What if the Batterizer claims LakshmiUSA tells only lies? Who do we believe then?
I still think they could hit that 800% mark and exceed it if they switched to Pyramid Power.
Iām pretty sure that they just found a warehouse full of these
ā¦and while deciding what to do with them came up with the battery booster over a few cocktailsā¦
I doubt weāll see a real one; though there is some potential for obnoxious whining based on the fact that, while absurdly overblown for the AA/AAA powered devices that actually exist in any substantial quantities, the claims might be demonstrable for a suitably (mal)designed test load; and possibly even some awful piece of junk that made its way onto the market at some point.
If theyād just had the decency to unequivocally step over the line into mystical-over-unity-pixies-and-unicorns land, thatād be the last of it; your claim requires that the battery provide more energy than it contains, full stop. So long as they stay close-ish to the bounds of claiming an āimprovementā that is within the bounds of āletās say we go from a device more or less designed to interact badly with AAs to a near-perfect dischargeā, the product is still largely snake oil; but youād need to do a messy field survey of all the battery powered devices to āproveā that somebodyās anecdotal widget isnāt in fact receiving the alleged benefit. That leaves wiggle room.
Take heart; the Google search results have this article above the companyās website.
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