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uBeam has been laughed at from the start by every engineer worth his soldering iron. It was a SCAM, or at the very best a misguided attempt at something by very
by rasz_pl 10y ago
uBeam has been laughed at from the start by every engineer worth his soldering iron. It was a SCAM, or at the very best a misguided attempt at something by very clueless person.
I dont get that linked blog. This engineer, who apparently is too ashamed to use his real name on the blog, is part of the problem. He was either in on the scam, or is as clueless as the founder.
Want similar magic 'under appreciated' startups? look up solar road scam, or batteriser.
- mikeyouse 10y agoI actually wrote a few blog posts debunking the feasibility of the solar road, so I'm well aware of it and I may not be an engineer but I was a scientist once upon a time and I'm pretty handy with a soldering iron - uBeam seems like something else entirely. There's a very good idea inside of uBeam's probably misguided goal to act as a phone charger, which from what I read, is a big part of their pitch to VCs.