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Re:UBeam CEO Meredith Perry steps aside amidst B2B pivot by pmorici on Monday October 22, 2018 @12:43AM (#18272228)
It's not complete snake oil, it does work it just isn't practical. I'd guess those investors were betting that they could over come the issues of practicality.
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Re:UBeam CEO Meredith Perry steps aside amidst B2B pivot by jhall1468 on Monday October 22, 2018 @01:55AM (#18272494)
You can't overcome basic physics. And this chick is a nutter. Her TEDx was cringey as hell, spending the majority of the time claiming she'd figured out solutions to problems in minutes that PhDs spent years on.

The fact that you'd need a power plant to charge a room full of people's phones isn't some practicality issue. This was absolute nonsense from day 1.

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Re:UBeam CEO Meredith Perry steps aside amidst B2B pivot by cdmckay on Monday October 22, 2018 @02:58AM (#18272698)
This woman, not “this chick”
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Re:UBeam CEO Meredith Perry steps aside amidst B2B pivot by EpicEng on Monday October 22, 2018 @12:32PM (#18276055)
Getting off into the weeds here, but I doubt you would have been offended if he was referring to a man and used "dude".
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Re:UBeam CEO Meredith Perry steps aside amidst B2B pivot by SheinhardtWigCo on Monday October 22, 2018 @03:54AM (#18272910)
chick, dude, guy, gal
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