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Re:SpareOne: Emergency mobile phone powered by AA batteries by userbinator on Sunday May 15, 2016 @12:24PM (#11701493)
If you've ever seen those shakelights you'd know that this product's claims are completely unfeasible. The laws of physics simply cannot be fooled.

http://www.eevblog.com/forum/crowd-funded-projects/ampy-move...

http://www.eevblog.com/forum/crowd-funded-projects/the-ampy-...

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Re:SpareOne: Emergency mobile phone powered by AA batteries by userbinator on Sunday May 15, 2016 @01:18PM (#11701748)
In one of the links I posted is an article where someone takes one apart, measures the actual power extracted, and calculates that there is no way the claims are true. Whatever "new and proprietary" technology cannot change the laws of physics. Look up "The Batteriser" for another example of a (presumably) well-educated (one of the team is supposedly a university instructor), well-funded team with plenty of media hype attempting to build an impossible product:

https://www.eevblog.com/2015/06/07/the-batteriser-explained/

http://theness.com/neurologicablog/index.php/batteriser-cool...

http://hackaday.com/2015/06/06/crowdfunding-follies-debunkin...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9644931

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9677900

This all makes me wonder... are you associated with them?