EEVblog #1224 - uBeam is Sinking!

Everyone's favorite impractical technology ship, the SS uBeam has finally hit the iceberg, but what's left of the band is still playing as it sinks!

Correction: Paul was former VP of Engineering, not CTO.

#uBeam #WirelessPower #FAIL

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[brunofonseca]

If a company needs to block Dave, then you know that there's something TECHNICALLY wrong.

[DaveMcAnulty]

I love the propane tank on the back of the uBeam powered forklift!

[dmdx]

The CEO sounds like he is powered by a uBeam.

[Thesignalpath]

The Tedx talk is is genuinely embarrassing. The narrative parallels flat-earther or anti-vaxer thought process with a heavy dose of Dunning-Kruger effect. I am all for out-of-box thinking, but you need to know what's in the box to begin with.

[richardgoebel]

I used to live near a farm in upstate New York. During the winters alot of cow manure would accumulate in the barns. Come springtime the tractors would be pulling fully loaded manure spreaders. And I believed that was absolutely the most bullshit spread over the widest area that could possibly occur. Thank you, Dave! You have thoroughly burst that balloon.

[noneofyourbusiness]

Silly start-up "inventor": "Hey can you build me this impossible device?"
Clever engineer: "Do I get payed by the hour ?"

[gcewing]

I can't wait for this to hit the market. It will be ideal for powering my Fontus water bottle!

[HPD]

they want to power a CNC lathe? I have a hard enough time running my minilathe on a 15A circuit.

[zetacrucis]

Powering that forklift in the manner described would require something equivalent to an ultrasonic weapon.

[hgbugalou]

What's funny is a literaral jet engine 'transmits' exponentially more power 'wirelessly' just by the amount of air it moves.

[ackinito]

It is even scarier the tremendous applause she got on the Ted talk when she was dismissing years if professional research in order to promote her sales pitch.

[freeman]

They could probably re-purpose this to keep teenagers off your lawn and such, with the right frequency.

[redtails]

10:45 I love how Dave reacts. Truly an engineer in distress, like a doctor at a trade show for homeopathy

[Blaine]

uBeam… the future of safe power! (warning, proximity to uBeam may cause certain side effects, including Necrotic Brain Syndrome and an inability to discern right from wrong. In rare cases uBeam might cause spontaneous combustion of organs including the pancreas and eyeballs. Some studies have shown a tendency of uBeam to first kill and then reanimate the corpses of small pets. Potential users of uBeam should check first with local officials to determine whether they can be prosecuted for breaches of either the Geneva or Hague conventions. By reading this, any purchaser of uBeam agrees to wave all right to litigate for damages of person or property and also gives uBeam the right to sell any and all information or internal organs they might find).

[KX]

My only problem with it is I think I would find the floating green battery logos everywhere really annoying after a while.

[Sam-thjl]

my favourite part of this whole thing is at 11:45 where one of the phones being charged by uBeam fairy dust is plugged in and charging on (what looks like) a power bank that's sat right next to the phone

[damoddiver]

Wow! That CNC lathe is battery powered. I want one of those 415V 3 phase AC batteries.

[BenHeckHacks]

How is this safe around eardrums? Wouldn't it drive pets mad?

[kcufv]

On the bottom of the plane... That's not a transmitter, that's a receiver. Can stop hauling all that heavy jet fuel that way.

[EdEditz]

Don't they realize that a lot of animals can hear ultrasonic sound? It'll be a hell of a lot of noise for them to deal with.