Take the EEVblog challenge, sit though all 15 minutes of Meredith Perry's TED talk without wanting to stab yourself with a soldering iron: kzread.info/dash/bejne/p5-b0LdrkbuzYsY.html Tell'em I sent you.

@thomastate7448

5 жыл бұрын

I lasted 45 seconds. And my IQ dropped by 50%

@danielbull6709

5 жыл бұрын

*Face palm*

@eldrbrian

5 жыл бұрын

I couldn’t even make it through the snippet at the end of this video. Damn it Dave.

@DejanTesic

5 жыл бұрын

Sorry, not brave enough. :(

@prismstudios001

5 жыл бұрын

Tapping out....Hell no.

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

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

@EEVblog

5 жыл бұрын

No energy in that! LOL

@juanmendes1299

5 жыл бұрын

duh, its an ultrasonic tank, where it hold waves by magic

@churchers

5 жыл бұрын

Maybe it just runs the power led. That’s about as much energy as you’d pick up.

@d4v3tm

5 жыл бұрын

um...thats the antenna!

@DoomVideoVault

5 жыл бұрын

I saw that too and was like WTF? It's propane powered! LOL

The CEO sounds like he is powered by a uBeam.

@gacherumburu9958

5 жыл бұрын

😂😂😂😂

@0dium.

5 жыл бұрын

ultrasonic powered morning corn flakes :)

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.

@tookitogo

5 жыл бұрын

The Signal Path Well, and also comprehend what a box is!

@staevobr

5 жыл бұрын

Boxes are just rules made up by scientists to control our minds. I propose an out of the bag thinking model. Once you realize you're actually in a bag and not in a box, you might see things a little differently.

@shadow7037932

5 жыл бұрын

I'd bet you a $1 that she's an anti vaxer.

@GamingWithNikolas

5 жыл бұрын

No first she has got to know how to think.

@SidneyCritic

5 жыл бұрын

@@staevobr Non-qualified people who think outside of the box have a very low success rate, maybe a couple %. Qualified people understand how stuff works and are much more successful. It's like when Florey made penicillin. He had to hire people of different engineering disciplines to make and mass produce it, because he understood how it worked and thought outside of the box. Fleming discovered it, but he couldn't work out how to mass produce it.

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

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.

@nickwallette6201

5 жыл бұрын

Wait til you see the solar roadway videos.

@wormhole331

2 жыл бұрын

Grew up on a farm. Cow manure would produce more power than whatever ubeam has. Digging down in a pile of manure during the winter has a lot of heat and steam being released from the bacteria.

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

@2009dudeman

5 жыл бұрын

Considering most electric forklifts are 36/48V, and even the tiny little shelf pickers can draw continuous currents of 50+amps at 36V nominal for minutes at a time. Could you imagine the uBeam being able to handle nearly 2Kw out of just sound energy!!! We could run the planet with that, no one would dare oppose whoever is holding one of those transmitters for fear of exploding. The large lathes they are talking about powering, the ones running off 40A supplies at 208/480V 3 phase. Thats 14.5Kw at just 208V 3phase. 33Kw for the 480V, supply. You could vaporize entire buildings with that thing, directional as it is.

@Sharklops

5 жыл бұрын

It's a lot easier when you leave the propane tank on it like that ones has. UBeam is just powering one of the LED indicator lights on the dashboard

@MrPaukann

5 жыл бұрын

@@Sharklops, the one that indicates that it's connected to ubeam.

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

@diatomsaus

5 жыл бұрын

They just hooked everything up to a perpetual motion machine.

@giornogiovanna729

5 жыл бұрын

Wdym, the lathe is a free-energy machine.

@ferrumignis

5 жыл бұрын

A minilathe motor is only around 500 watts, why are you struggling with a 15amp supply?

5 жыл бұрын

@@ferrumignis Inrush current, probably no soft start. a 500 watt motor with load can easily overload a 16A breaker. An AC motor is practically a sort until it start rotating.

@djneo92nl

5 жыл бұрын

Why would you need to have a Lathe wireless ? It's a damn heavy machine

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

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

@linagee

5 жыл бұрын

I think they are implying that: if you have the uBeam pumped up to full 145dB volume, it will be as loud as a jet engine. (But - ultrasonic, so it will only kill your dog. "Safe", for humans, ish.)

@ccdimage

5 жыл бұрын

If you want to generate energy from sound. Chuck the transmitter in the bin and put the generator any where near a jet engine. FREE POWER (cost of jet not included).

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

@KineticWasEpicVideos

5 жыл бұрын

Products like that already exist. They've been deployed in shopping malls to keep teens from loitering (to what effectiveness I don't know).

@volvo09

5 жыл бұрын

Naah, they'll just throw a party in your yard thinking it's new music.

@NuclearSavety

5 жыл бұрын

How to diffferentiate between deterrent noise and a techno party?

@mistakenotou7681

5 жыл бұрын

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_Range_Acoustic_Device

@peepopalaber

5 жыл бұрын

That experiment failed and is now called "Dubstep"

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.

Ah, yes, the Elizabeth Holmes of wireless power...

@red__guy

5 жыл бұрын

That Theranos all over again before it gone big

@Sharklops

5 жыл бұрын

have you watched the Inventor documentary on HBO about Theranos? It's really great

@theespatier4456

5 жыл бұрын

Sr Viejo Elizabeth Holmes was way smarter

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

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

5 жыл бұрын

most electric cars are powered by 3 phase motors. You just need to inverters.

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

@Mehrunes86

3 жыл бұрын

That way they can power the whole house🤔😂

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

@EEVblog

5 жыл бұрын

The output powers they have talked about (145dB) are way above safe limits. I doubt the new TX does that high, but it would probably drive cats nuts anyway.

@HPD1171

5 жыл бұрын

@@EEVblog but they say its UltraSafe and UltraSimple and you can even power a forklift and a CNC lathe with it. And on top of that you can.... wait something is burning... oh its my brain cells.

@thomastate7448

5 жыл бұрын

@@EEVblog That's really unsafe. Hell, it's 5dB off from emitting the same amount of sound as a jet taking off. Also your eardrums burst at 150dB

@DaveMcAnulty

5 жыл бұрын

Hey, get back in the dumpster room you! :)

@marks47

5 жыл бұрын

@@DaveMcAnulty Sounds like he'd be finding more valuable tech. than at micro-beam in there!

Does Meredith realize she sounds like every free energy crank ever?

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.

@SenorBolsa

5 жыл бұрын

Jet fuel can't melt ubeams

@kapytanhook

5 жыл бұрын

@@SenorBolsa This is now my favorite comment on all of KZread, all my years of watching videos and reading shitty comments have finally paid off.

@ppsarrakis

5 жыл бұрын

@@SenorBolsa xD

How did "telling the expert that they were wrong" went?

@volvo09

5 жыл бұрын

Yeah, didn't she say she couldn't wait to laugh in the faces of everyone who said it couldn't be done... Can't remember the exact quotes she said in the talk but to me it came across as "I can't wait to spit in the faces of every engineer and every person who told me it wasn't a good idea". She sounded exactly like someone who was never EVER told "no" and believed all the "you can do anything you set your mind to because X"...... Crazy. I took it as indirectly pretty rude, showing she didn't know squat and had to talk poo on engineers.

@ppsarrakis

5 жыл бұрын

@@volvo09 to be honest,no expert will tell you just a plain "no"......

@sjm4306

5 жыл бұрын

@@ppsarrakis I can imagine every engineer who spoke with her calmly and thoroughly explained why it wouldn't work and what the limiting factors were but all that info just went right through her head. Her arrogance is astounding, shielding her from any semblance of practicality and ethics.

My favourite part is the idea that you would use this in non-potable appliances or devices that are always hard-wired in. Yep, I really need my industrial plant machinery to be wirelessly charged, or the cooker. You need extremely reliable power in a hospital operating room filled with complicated equipment which draws lots of power - perfect for this technology apparently. It's not even good bullshit!

I'm actually surprized that they are still around.

@GamingWithNikolas

5 жыл бұрын

On life support

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.

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).

@ptonpc

5 жыл бұрын

Sounds legit :P

@dashcamandy2242

5 жыл бұрын

That's actually a shorter warning than most prescription medication commercials have. lol And much more entertaining.

I'll watch the full 15 minute TED talk if you upload it with your reactions in the corner - that was funny.

@0dium.

5 жыл бұрын

no, those were gestures for the deaf and hard-of-hearing xD

@AndyFletcherX31

5 жыл бұрын

@@0dium. s/hard-of-hearing/hard-of-thinking/ There, fixed it for you

@jakublulek3261

3 жыл бұрын

It is TEDx, so not a real TED talk.

So I guess 1.21 gigawatts would be completely out of the range.

@CaptainDangeax

5 жыл бұрын

Actually, it's 2.21 gigawatts

@CaptainDangeax

5 жыл бұрын

@Peter Mortensen I'm French. In the French version it's 2,21 gigawatts.

I like that they can charge the propane-powered forklift with ultrasound.

"125+ patents and applications!" "Zero peer-reviewed articles!" "Tomorrow's technology... TODAY!"

Never too late to learn some Aussie English: come-a-gutser (=failed miserably). Thanks, Dave!

Thank you for the 30 minutes of laughter Dave !

Hey Dave I have a Sony GV8 video Walkman that won’t power on I may have connected 12v to it when it uses only 6v Might there be a fuse inside ? Thanks Mike

Love that fork lift with gas tank on the back powered by ubeam ;D

They'll say anything when they see dollar signs flashing in their eyes.

What does dave have against the nest sensors? Cant find any video of him talking about nest. Anyone have a link?

I'll stick with copper and aluminum for all my electrical power needs, preferably not paired with my phone. Thank you very much.

My grandfather ran a wireless energy plant for a large machine shop back in the day. It burned coal in a big boiler to run a steam engine. And it had big shafts with leather belts all through the shop. No wires involved at all

Anyone notice the forklift is actually run on propane?

To be honest, with uBeam you wouldn't need a blender. Just toss the thing you want blended up near the transmitter and it'll turn into goo. And it will most likely be hot goo too, so you may not need the microwave anymore either.

Meredith is a strong woman who don't need no engineer to tell her it's not feasible.

If I was wheeled into an operation room and saw a ubeam, a lot of people would see the rapidly departing sight of my Arse

*10:25** - A cable is seen behind the "wireless powered" monitor* Narrator: "No wires, No battery changes"

@itayshtainberg7408

5 жыл бұрын

@dothemathright 1111 If you are using a video cable, what's the point of wireless power? Also at 9:32 I think you can see the tip of a second cable. Just wanted to make a joke though.

Finally, just what I always wanted! Instead of powering my shit with almost 100% efficient cabling I can power them by a phased array of ultrasonic transducers that will explode my dogs head, be about 1% max efficient, cost about a thousand times more, add about 60 new ways for the damned thing to fail and require that no one stands in the way of the beam. We are living in a wonderful era.

I like how Meredith disses engineers, and then says she has hired the best engineers. Seems to me like another one of those: "If I believe really hard, it will work". Put you money where your mouth is, with a working demo. And with those low efficiencies, how are you going to save the planet? Ubeam (just typing that gives me the heebeejeebies) in a jet engine, because there is no power source there.. WTH?!?

@joshuastauter107

4 жыл бұрын

Just think what she could have achieved had she hired people who had no idea what they were doing!

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

I propose they switch to KW level microwave power transmission. Nothing could possibly go wrong.

@tfoutfou21000

5 жыл бұрын

Genius Idea dude. Please open a found raiser page i will be you first contributor . I have zillion trillion billion dollars to invest 😂🤣

4:40 a CNC lathe with wireless power technology, never thought this would be outdated. but seriously when I estimate that most people who have an 8 hour work day and get up from their desk often a modern phone will still get them trough the day no problem. Close range wireless charging is a added bonus because with most phones these days, you cant even sit down with it in your pocket so you put it on your desk. Most office jobs are sit down and work on a computer for 4 hours straight anyway. Why do people try to reinvent something if they cant even fully use old technology to its maximum?

@EEVblog

5 жыл бұрын

Indeed. uBeam's original dream was to have every Starbucks have these transmitters track people around the shop and charge their phone (people use them screen up, so the receiver will be face down, LOL). When they could just install Qi charging pads on the benches instead.

How does the wireless power share feature work on the Samsung S10 phone?

@daverhodes382

5 жыл бұрын

Qi.

What? The inverse square law isn't worth mentioning?

When the business tanks, all the dogs will howl in relief.

Great video, very entertaining, thanks Dave always a pleasure to watch

In space no one can hear you uBeam.

Love the “electric” forklift with a propane tank on the back.

What about uBeam in space? This could be the real killer app.

@linagee

5 жыл бұрын

In space, nobody can hear you uBeam.

Power your jet engine with Ubeam. Alternatively turn Ubeam into recycable trash inside a jet engine.

Oh man, I've just looked up this wireless shower head thing, and I love it! Finally not tangeling yourself up in the shower hose, because the water is transmitted wirelessly! What a genius idea! I'll go to Ikea and buy a kit tomorrow!

Who want to finance me . I have a marvelous Idea. The next Big thing. A battery powered brushless flashlight 🤣😂

The woman in he video with the dog was happy because she had her "device" plugged into Ubeam...🤦‍♀️ 😱 😛😂😂😂😂😂😂

I realize the delivered power would be quite low, but since the source is essentially continuous and free, would it not be an idea of putting a rectenna tuned to 2.4ghz and feed the output to a boost converter to trickle charge devices? The energy is essentially wasted otherwise, might as well try to capture it....

You know what I think would be poetic? If when ubeam goes belly up, Dave is the one who buys the IP for next to nothing for the purpose of dissecting and keeping off the market.

They should install ubeam transmitter in the solar roadways

That Ted talk sounds an awful lot like the theranos CEO reasoning why their technology would work (it didn't) Both think experts don't know what they're talkin about both failed because of the exact reasons experts said

@Silanda

5 жыл бұрын

It's funny. She sounds like that high school kid who thinks they're a genius and has solved some insurmountable problem, though really they just don't know what they're talking about. Only these days it seems that rather than being politely told to STFU and learn more, there are investors lining up to give them millions.

In medical: use it directly for kidney stone crushing...

@blunderingfool

5 жыл бұрын

Mindaugas Vaskevicius Would that actually be even remotely practical?

@mindaugasvaskevicius1818

5 жыл бұрын

@@blunderingfool not sure, but it is used in practice, colleague today is having ultrasound procedure for kidney stones...

Hi can you help me install a 12dc circuit board for a remote control of a golf trolley

Need this combined with solar roadways for a wireless electric cars

Scotty and chief O'Brien I knew it was all a bunch of bunk.🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

@dashcamandy2242

5 жыл бұрын

I think even B'Elanna knew it.

Wow, that on stage demo with the red LED card was pathetic! Embarrassing! It couldn't even light up 1/10 of the lights past a foot! I couldn't get on stage with that.

It's a gas forklift :DD not electric. it can charge its own batteries :DD

@blunderingfool

5 жыл бұрын

OH6BPL Wouldn’t the gas be for the lifting mechanism and electric for a motor?

@semifavorableuncircle6952

5 жыл бұрын

No, combustion engine running on propane (less emissions than petrol or diesel) powering the hydraulic drive and lift.

Why didn't she think of a phone that charges with the power of your voice. That's gonna make a zillion dollars for sure!

@1flatlander380

5 жыл бұрын

I know several people that would have over-charged batteries.

“IoT”, “Smart Living”, ... we’re about to hit marketing bullshit bingo!

Ubeam powered Ultrasound scanner? Now I'm confused.

11:11 "Power your blender, power your baby, power everything!"

The marketing team was like fuck this, I'm gonna go to town and milk this baby until it dies.

Hah, yeah the Elizabeth Holmes of wireless power...

If bullshit were electricity, these guys could power all the equipment they showed in their marketing materials.

How can you charge devices without batteries? Super capacitors?

I want to see the CEO stand in front of a 1kw ubeam transmitter at full power for a day and then take a hearing test. Then get environmentalists on the case and show dogs, cats, birds and bats in front of the device.

They leave out the part about at 145 dB, it won't be ultrasonic anymore -- what with all the furniture and appliances vibrating out the front door and down the street. (OR...., maybe it will be, since by then your eardrums will be mush.) Genius!!

I guess Nikola Tesla didn't use the right P.R. guys!

1:48 the smartphone of the lady on the top is connect to powerbank LOL

I love how they show the battery charging thing on the fork lift. Are they transmitting LPG now? LOL...

Looking at that antenna array in their latest promo video (the one with the green LEDs), I can't help but think that this is simply an animation. If you look JUST before the cut at 13:35, the animation loop seems to restart - the "power" field is changing instantly without any obvious reason. The old demo, with the red LEDs, at least seemed like it could be real.

Could this wireless charging bollocks work more efficiently at much higher frequencies? Or would it be wildly inefficient no matter what you do?

10:45 - that's a propane powered forklift. OMG.

Would love to see Dave at one of these TED talks when it comes to question time :)

"It's a Zillion-Dollar idea" 10:39 I always wondered how many a zillion was and now I know.

"I tweet like a boss!" It's Jan 2, 2020. I haven't laughed that hard in forever. He's right, he is a damn boss 💯💯💪🏾

Why would I use this when there is a power socket on the wall?

@bills6093

5 жыл бұрын

A small cheap solar cell panel, even inside a factory and powered by the lighting,, almost certainly provides more power than ubeam can. Think of the little solar cell panels that run calculators.

the website took up a large chunk of the funding & wireless charging does it actually work?

Next on Meredith's plate: - Over-unity - Recursive Data Compression - Time travel - Teleportation - Lightsabers

@blunderingfool

5 жыл бұрын

MaxSantos Recursive data compression? Wouldn’t that just be a zip-bomb?

@maxsnts

5 жыл бұрын

@@blunderingfool No. "Recursive data compression" is impossible. It means that you would be able to compress data over and over again getting ever less used space. It would be great but as you can imagine not possible.

"You're just being a negative nancy!" "I don't see you coming up with any solutions!" "I guess you just hate progress!"

I want a wireless forklift NOW ! 😂

"if you have a big greenhousy thing" - then you have light available for your plants and could use small solar cells...

i have a ton of questions about the frequency used, the effects on calcium around, like... buildings, of plaques in carotid arteria, the animals affected, etc.

0:59 I thought, when you were saying “because I tweet like a b-”, that you would say: bird. That was funny. Missed opportunity, though.

The jet engine one is the best. Imagine using sound waves to transmit power at 30,000ft through a near-supersonic airflow

@RichardWatt

3 жыл бұрын

Just wait until Elon Musk puts it into his supersonic all-electric VTOL aircraft!

I loved part where they showed an electric forklift getting ubeam power. 40 volts and about a couple hundred amps

I wonder if the international viewers understand what "no wuckas" means...lol!

Well, there is an old universal truth: If you can use wires - you must use wires. Drill some holes in some walls, etc. And go wireless only of wired solution is reeeaaally impractical or too expensive.

lol its like they watched Better call Saul and thought "ahh yeah, lets make that a real disease lol"