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ebastler:

--- Quote ---How much would you pay for a non-pharma sleep aid device...?

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Oh wow!
They must have observed that the uBeam engineers keep falling asleep in the lab, and have reached the razor-sharp conclusion that ultrasound is sleep-inducing.

 :=\

Fungus:

--- Quote from: EEVblog on May 12, 2019, 01:42:30 pm ---
--- Quote from: StillTrying on May 12, 2019, 12:40:31 pm ---What do the 30+ incredibly highly skilled and experienced engineers working at uDream actually do all day.

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According to this review from a former employee, it's "Like being paid to sit and witness the ramblings of the mentally ill. "

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And they get paid to do it!

If I lived near their building I'd apply for a job there, no problem. Millions of $$$ in VC capital usually means fancy toys, lots of perks and bosses who don't pay much attention to what you're actually doing.

Buriedcode:
The hubris in that tweet... it implies there there either currently is some form of "device" that can almost instantly put someone to sleep - which would be a pretty powerful non-lethal weapon - or that she fully expects to be able to create one.  And with "zero side-effects".. please, everything has side effects, it's just a question of what the intended purpose is and even then, sleeping tablets have the side effect of "drowsiness".

I'm all for "blue sky thinking", brainstorming and trying to tackle so-called hard problems, but simply picking something almost at random and giving the impression all problems can be solved just with hard work and money (or worse, technology) is at best naive.  She fits right in with the Silicon Valley crowd.  The question is... did Silicon Valley make the Perry? Or does the Perry add to the Silicon Valley?

EEVblog:

--- Quote from: Buriedcode on May 12, 2019, 09:17:48 pm ---The hubris in that tweet... it implies there there either currently is some form of "device" that can almost instantly put someone to sleep - which would be a pretty powerful non-lethal weapon - or that she fully expects to be able to create one.  And with "zero side-effects".. please, everything has side effects, it's just a question of what the intended purpose is and even then, sleeping tablets have the side effect of "drowsiness".

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My bet would be to put you asleep for plane flights. Huge market for that with nervous flyers.
Imagine if you did a slick Kickstarter video promising that, the millions would roll in.


--- Quote ---I'm all for "blue sky thinking", brainstorming and trying to tackle so-called hard problems, but simply picking something almost at random and giving the impression all problems can be solved just with hard work and money (or worse, technology) is at best naive.  She fits right in with the Silicon Valley crowd.  The question is... did Silicon Valley make the Perry? Or does the Perry add to the Silicon Valley?
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Even in the world of silicon valley, she's still in a category of her own:

StillTrying:
Have they closed down yet.  :horse:

https://twitter.com/Gabriel050111/status/1128518457170042881

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