But wow did they go about it wrong, charging $699 for a machine that does a worse job than your bare hands!? Was there not one investor who did a technical due diligence? I'm so surprised.
But wow did they go about it wrong, charging $699 for a machine that does a worse job than your bare hands!? Was there not one investor who did a technical due diligence? I'm so surprised.
The actual technology works...just not well enough, and scaling it to be an order of magnitude more useful is probably physically impossible.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A8dqzVlhFkA
The talk by the uBeam CEO he links is also pretty infuriating.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ukgnU2aXM2c
Her core hypothesis that experts can often get stuck "inside the box" is certainly valid, but on the other hand "I sat down and solved complex engineering problems in a few minutes with pencil and paper" (almost an exact quote from the talk) is just plain dumb. Not to mention the not subtle implication that good engineers are all socially retarded...