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coppice:

--- Quote from: EEVblog on December 20, 2020, 12:01:43 pm ---
--- Quote from: Nominal Animal on December 17, 2020, 10:58:08 am ---In Finland, this kind of lackadaisical attitude towards results has lead to only approximately one large IT project in three to actually complete.  It has become acceptable for almost two thirds of publicly funded projects to fail without producing any results, without repercussions to their leaders and purchasers, exactly because people do not want to be confrontational, and think that by being "reasonable", they are behaving in a more moral manner.  What they are actually doing, is leaving enough room for these exploiters and fakers to live large.

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There are many people (even fellow creators) who think my debunking videos are at best an absolute waste of my time, and at worst, a personal attack on genuine entrepenerial people that causes nothing but negativity and hate in the community etc.  ::)

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I expect these are the same type of people who read an article which clearly describes research solving one modest link in a long chain of problems, and see this as all problems are solved and amazing new products are about to roll off the production line.
EEVblog:

--- Quote from: jrs45 on December 20, 2020, 10:26:56 pm ---Further, there are several mainstream articles about Paul Reynold's excellent debunking of ubeam:

https://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/consumer-electronics/portable-devices/engineer-and-investor-in-spat-about-wireless-charging-startup-ubeam

https://www.businessinsider.com/ubeam-former-engineers-doubt-it-can-work-2016-5

https://www.inc.com/kevin-j-ryan/apple-hired-engineers-from-mark-cuban-backed-startup-ubeam.html

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They should all definitely go on the uBeam/SonicEnergy wiki page under the criticism section. Someone should fix that  ;D
When you have the former CTO of the tech company in question calling out the BS, that's as an authoritative source as it gets.
https://liesandstartuppr.blogspot.com/
jrs45:
Article is unlocked now, fwiw.  But stick to the clear, well referenced facts, if anyone decides to improve the article.
PaulReynolds:
It's finally happened, it's an ex-uBeam

https://liesandstartuppr.blogspot.com/2021/05/its-ex-ubeam.html

Just shy of its 10th birthday and with between $40 and $48 million of investment, it appears uBeam (recently Sonic Energy) has shuffled off its mortal coil. While some may claim it's simply pining for the fjords or merely stunned, a few weeks ago the last remaining employees were told they were terminated effective immediately and the doors were closed. Whether the company will actually be killed, or carry on in zombie form as an asset holding entity remains to be seen, but reportedly it will be OurCrowd, the crowdfunding group who were significant investors in the later rounds, that take possession.

EEVblog:
Grab a bottle and watch in honor  :-DD

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