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Re: The Airing
« Reply #100 on: December 05, 2015, 09:01:37 am »
Got an update today :

http://www.fundairing.com/journal/2015/9/21/airing-update-92115

They printed up vouchers to buy their products at discounted prices... if and when they will ever exist.

Too expensive for them, the sent e-mails with a link to the voucher so you can print it by yourself. I assume you can print as many as you like, worthless anyway.  :-DD :-DD :-DD
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Re: The Airing
« Reply #101 on: January 31, 2016, 05:33:52 am »
Recent update:

The big boys over at Airing spent a bunch of money on some gear in a wooden crate:



What do you think is in the box?
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Re: The Airing
« Reply #102 on: January 31, 2016, 05:37:38 am »
A stripper?...
 

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Re: The Airing
« Reply #103 on: January 31, 2016, 04:57:21 pm »
Hi,

Air.


What else would you need to test the Airing?

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Re: The Airing
« Reply #104 on: February 01, 2016, 12:25:20 am »
Self-help and advice books for inspiring Indiegogo campaigns?
 

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Re: The Airing
« Reply #105 on: February 01, 2016, 12:33:01 am »
A Horse head?
 

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Re: The Airing
« Reply #106 on: March 15, 2016, 01:32:22 am »
New update today....

http://www.fundairing.com/journal/2016/3/14/airing-progress-update

After almost a year and over $1,000,000, they have made one of these....

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Re: The Airing
« Reply #107 on: March 15, 2016, 01:46:14 am »
From the latest progress update:
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Soon, we will be able to answer the important question: “Can these tiny micro-blowers successfully blow air?”
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If the micro-blowers pump a net amount of air, and if an increase in pressure is measured at the output, then we know we have built working blowers and will have proven our basic micro-blower concept.

Their original "story" was:
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we need your help to get it out of the lab and into your hands
Which implies they had already done this proof of concept work in the lab, and just needed funding to finalise a design and work towards mass production.
So it was just a concept design with no serious technical or scientific research behind it.  i.e. more IGG vaporware!
 

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Re: The Airing
« Reply #108 on: March 15, 2016, 03:50:28 am »
Their original "story" was:
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we need your help to get it out of the lab and into your hands
Which implies they had already done this proof of concept work in the lab, and just needed funding to finalise a design and work towards mass production.
So it was just a concept design with no serious technical or scientific research behind it.  i.e. more IGG vaporware!

Yes this was one of the main critiques from the initial crowd-funding campaign, that they had absolutely no working prototype and just some cockamamie ideas that fed on the desperation of people with a horrible medical condition. Yet they were providing supporters with vouchers for a product that they haven't even proved is at all possible. That's why they went to IGG and not Kickstarter.

According to Airing, they fulfilled the campaign... They delivered vouchers to people. Correct? So technically their obligation is complete. People bought "vouchers" for free Airings, if and when they exist. See how clever Stephen Marsh and his group of experts is? Meanwhile they have $1,000,000+ to mess around with for a number of years to keep themselves busy and maybe invent something actually useful. Let's hope they don't keep stringing everyone along year after year, well past their original delivery deadline and hope for backer atrophy and apathy to shed people off their backs.

For the sake of these sufferers who spent their hard-earned cash on a promise of a miracle device, let's hope Stephen Marsh actually truly believes he is on to something and not a pathological liar who has even convinced himself it can be done and is self-deluded. Then again, all entrepreneurs and visionaries must have a certain element of this psychological attribute to persevere in the face of overwhelming odds... but if you are using other people's money to do it, you had better be more responsible.
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Re: The Airing
« Reply #109 on: March 15, 2016, 04:10:40 am »
Recent update:
The big boys over at Airing spent a bunch of money on some gear in a wooden crate:
What do you think is in the box?

A cymbal clapping monkey?
 

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Re: The Airing
« Reply #110 on: March 15, 2016, 09:12:13 am »
The box contained a camera. Maybe they could lend their (spare) camera to Dr. Bob...


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Re: The Airing
« Reply #111 on: March 15, 2016, 10:52:46 am »
Ok you guys actually peaked my curiousity,

Poking around it appears the nasal cavity volumes are roughly 9cm^3 on average between men and women,
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22648589

The nostril to the lung passageway can be approximated to a 9mm ID diameter tube and approximately 17cm long, to give adequate airflow for a large male (length based off my own nose to ear length)
Based off the google book "Nurse's 5-minute Clinical Consult: Procedures" This comes to a volume of 43mL to me,

For the lungs, with a person fully at rest needs about 7.5L per minute to stay alive, with an average tidal volume of 500mL. Timing my own deep breathing rate, its about 4 seconds per inhale, however i am big and the minimum would put my tidal amount closer to 1L, so a flowrate of 15L per minute on the fan,

Now that is where i run out of approximations i can make, but hopefully that can give someone some ideas on what is possible with those numbers, Pressurize a 43mL volume to 1KPa 8 times a minute and have a flow rate exceeding 15L/ Minute when unobstructed, (keeping such a high flow rate would exceed the rate i breath in, and thus keep a net positive pressure in my head)
 

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Re: The Airing
« Reply #112 on: March 15, 2016, 04:11:33 pm »
For a data point, my CPAP is set for 10 inches H2O pressure, which is about 2.5 kilopascals if some random unit converter I found on the internet is to be trusted. I don't know if that's typical, high, or low. The pressure setting isn't arbitrary. It was determined in a sleep study to be the pressure necessary to be medically effective in pressurizing my fat head.
 

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Re: The Airing
« Reply #113 on: March 15, 2016, 06:06:22 pm »
For a data point, my CPAP is set for 10 inches H2O pressure, which is about 2.5 kilopascals if some random unit converter I found on the internet is to be trusted. I don't know if that's typical, high, or low. The pressure setting isn't arbitrary. It was determined in a sleep study to be the pressure necessary to be medically effective in pressurizing my fat head.

I suspect you mean 10 cm not inches.   10-15 cm is typical. I'd say 10 cm is the most common number I see.

You are absolutely right that titration to the correct value requires a sleep study.

 

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Re: The Airing
« Reply #114 on: March 15, 2016, 06:15:20 pm »
Thanks for the correction. You're probably right. I'm at work so I can't easily confirm the setting right now.
 

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Re: The Airing
« Reply #115 on: March 16, 2016, 03:39:13 am »
I'm pretty sure there is a reason why a CPAP machine has to be the size it is, given it is so hated to have a mask strapped on to your face all night and have this noise. The companies who make them would have loved to make them smaller if it was possible, and there are many ways to make them smaller even using existing blower-fan technology. Reasons I can think of why it is difficult to miniaturize:

1. the pressure needs to be sufficient to open the obstruction
2. the air must be humidified
3. the appliance has to be attached to your head or it will slip out due to it's own pressure
4. it must allow for exhalation without falling off
5. there must be sufficient power to run it all night

Just as a "proof of concept" what Airing LLC should have done from the start is simply take one of their blue rubbery nose-pieces (which they have made) and rig in a couple of small tubes hooked up to a conventional blower and see what kind of power and flow is required.

Instead, they have dreamt up this "micro-blower" nano-technology which has never been created before and they have absolutely no way to know if it even works.

My guess is, Stephen Marsh, the "inventor" of this stuff (someone who has also had a number of issues on previous Venture Capitalist technological startups which ended up in court cases... just read the earlier posts in this thread) wanted to get enough money to test out his nano-tech micro-blower concept and created a "killer-application" for it in order to get enough interest to get funded. If he had said he wanted to invent micro-blowers to cool your PC chip, nobody would have bothered giving him any money. But CPAP was a noble and worthy cause, and so he latched on to that idea and sold everyone on the idea.

Let us suppose for a minute that he manages to get these micro-blowers to actually work. They may not be useful for CPAP but may come in handy for other applications. He may spin those off to another company, sell off the intellectual property or license it out. Who knows. But it is a HUGE LEAP OF FAITH for these $1,000,000+ backing community to take on the word of a couple of people who think it should technically work.

Why does Stephen Marsh and the Airing especially bother me? It hits close to home... My father uses a CPAP and my son actually needed to wear a CPAP for a few months when he was an infant (it was not a good feeling to put one of these machines on your baby every night and try to have him sleep comfortably).

I'm a medically trained professional and small business owner who had to borrow a huge amount of money to start up my office. I didn't crowd-fund the funds, I put it all on my back. Every business is a risk but I am personally accountable and because of that had to work hard and through many sleepless nights to ensure I didn't lose the shirt off my back.

Now you have Stephen Marsh and his group of experts, all fairly well-to-do professionals who could have obtained the money through loans and feel some accountability. Instead, they used crowd-funding for a number of different reasons to shield themselves in case things go sour. The idea sounded far-fetched from the beginning and it still is nowhere closer to being proven to work today than it was when they obtained their crowd-funding at 896% over-funded on July 16, 2015 (about 8 months ago).

We've already seen an update where Stephen Marsh admits it will take another $7,000,000 or so to actually make the prototypes. Where he gets these numbers I have no idea, but to imagine then their original target was $100,000? They managed to get $896,000 in their campaign time and then continued "InDemand" funding and now up over $1.2 million.... and Stephen Marsh admits he can't get the project finished without another $7,000,000.....  :wtf:

I would be the first one to applaud Marsh and his team if they can pull this off. I'll keep watching...  :popcorn:

But we see so many other similar campaigns and you can't help but think this is in the same class as Skarp, uBeam, Batteriser... same scientific shenanigans and lack of functioning prototypes, hyperbole-filled rhetoric and raised huge amounts of money with nothing to show for it.

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Re: The Airing
« Reply #116 on: March 16, 2016, 03:45:53 pm »
For a data point, my CPAP is set for 10 inches H2O pressure, which is about 2.5 kilopascals if some random unit converter I found on the internet is to be trusted. I don't know if that's typical, high, or low. The pressure setting isn't arbitrary. It was determined in a sleep study to be the pressure necessary to be medically effective in pressurizing my fat head.

Mines at 10cm too, and let's not forget the energy needed for the monitor system to ensure constant pressure during exhalation and inhalation.

I think I will stick with the light weight mask I use now, I don't fancy a couple of tubes with barbs hanging onto the inside of my nostrils all night  ^-^

Last year (I read the whole damn thread) someone mentioned about air blowing out your mouth, sleeping with your mouth closed is easy with practice :) even speaking with air blowing into your nose is a simple process once you have a few goes  :=\
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Re: The Airing
« Reply #117 on: April 11, 2016, 02:14:56 pm »
New April update on the 1,000,000 + Airing scampaign.
https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/airing-the-first-hoseless-maskless-micro-cpap#/updates

I can't be positive, but it certainly looks like the "MicroBlower" is a chewing gum wrapper, and the drive circuitry seems a tad large for a noseplug wearable...
 

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Re: The Airing
« Reply #118 on: April 17, 2016, 11:21:48 pm »


I see nothing but a dog and pony show to please backers. Why are the guys in the lab wearing disposable medical scrubs? No substantial evidence that anything is working. Even the Skarp laser razor, while horribly inefficient and fragile, did at least show hair being cut. Airing doesn't even show a micro blower (working or otherwise).

They have over $1 million and have been working on it for 8-9 months presumably. Patents should be pending. They can't show the world anything?
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Re: The Airing
« Reply #119 on: April 20, 2016, 07:52:08 pm »
I don't understand why he has connected a 3KV electrophoresis supply to the apparatus under the microscope. Some kind of micromachine that runs on such a high voltage is not very likely.
 

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Re: The Airing
« Reply #120 on: April 20, 2016, 08:05:53 pm »
I don't understand why he has connected a 3KV electrophoresis supply to the apparatus under the microscope. Some kind of micromachine that runs on such a high voltage is not very likely.

That does look an awful lot like the EPS 3500 XL of which I did a teardown a few years ago.

You might almost think he borrowed someone else's bio lab and just hooked up likely looking bits of equipment to some random components he brought in...
 

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Re: The Airing
« Reply #121 on: April 21, 2016, 02:38:13 am »
You might almost think he borrowed someone else's bio lab and just hooked up likely looking bits of equipment to some random components he brought in...

That's exactly what I thought when I watched it!
 

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Re: The Airing
« Reply #122 on: April 21, 2016, 02:55:47 am »
Here is an image of the setup:



Yes... it does look like that electrophoresis supply:



And here's what I think was in that giant wooden crate from a message postings back:



Looks an aweful lot like this:  http://www.pva.net/products/Benchtop-Coating-Dispensing-System_116.htm

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Re: The Airing
« Reply #123 on: April 21, 2016, 03:47:55 am »
And here's what I think was in that giant wooden crate from a message postings back:
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Looks an aweful lot like this:  http://www.pva.net/products/Benchtop-Coating-Dispensing-System_116.htm

Good work!
 

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Re: The Airing
« Reply #124 on: April 21, 2016, 05:33:20 am »
What the heck is that board?  :-//
 


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