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PaulReynolds:

--- Quote from: StillTrying on June 24, 2019, 02:58:50 pm ---Is there anything about uDream that's actually honest. Asking for a friend. :horse:

The Art of Manufacturing was around the end of June '18, I think she still was CEO then, or perhaps she just thought she was. :)
https://twitter.com/meredithperry/status/1012439593075920897

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I think it might have been recorded at the end of April but not made available until June.
StillTrying:

--- Quote from: PaulReynolds on June 24, 2019, 03:29:34 pm ---I think it might have been recorded at the end of April but not made available until June.
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You're probably correct. :)

"A couple of months ago, while she was wrapping up a $20 million raise, I came to her office bearing margaritas.."
PaulReynolds:
Someone posted a link to a short presentation by the current uBeam CEO at OurCrowd summit earlier this year. Some interesting data can be gleaned from the slides (assuming it's not just completely random data they threw up!)

https://liesandstartuppr.blogspot.com/2019/06/yet-another-ubeam-video.html




EEVblog:

--- Quote from: PaulReynolds on June 25, 2019, 01:29:38 am ---Someone posted a link to a short presentation by the current uBeam CEO at OurCrowd summit earlier this year. Some interesting data can be gleaned from the slides (assuming it's not just completely random data they threw up!)
https://liesandstartuppr.blogspot.com/2019/06/yet-another-ubeam-video.html

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And there you have it, as we all knew uBeam is a flop for charging your phone. THE thing that Perry said was doable from the start.
No one wants to charge their phone @ 1W at a distance of 20cm, and at horrible efficiency.
Or 0.35W at 2m, at even worse efficiency  :-DD
I love how they used the elipse bubble to inflate the figures, just draw a straight line from each tip and that's your data, probably best case.
No wonder they had to pivot to low power IoT.
Fungus:

--- Quote from: EEVblog on June 25, 2019, 03:54:29 am ---No one wants to charge their phone @ 1W at a distance of 20cm, and at horrible efficiency.

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...using a charger that makes your phone the size of a brick, needs to be held in the air and aligned, and costs hundreds of $$$.

(and drops to near-zero when you're six feet away)
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