EEVblog #751 - How To Debunk A Product (The Batteriser)

[Luminax]

This thread needs a batteroo... 800% more replies 

[daveake]

[Delta]

This thread needs a batteroo... 800% more replies 

Let me pitch in then....

What are consumer protection / advertising standards law like in the various countries where these have been sold, and in particular the US, where the company is based?

The packaging describes these things as "Battery Life Extenders", and they clearly, demonstrably, and objectively do not work as advertised. 

[amirm]

This thread needs a batteroo... 800% more replies 

Let me pitch in then....

What are consumer protection / advertising standards law like in the various countries where these have been sold, and in particular the US, where the company is based?

The packaging describes these things as "Battery Life Extenders", and they clearly, demonstrably, and objectively do not work as advertised.

The relevant agencies are after the big fish, not something like this.  And certainly not when understanding what it does and doesn't do requires some technical knowledge.  The state attorney's office will help one get their money back if the offender is in another state but that is it.

[Luminax]

This thread needs a batteroo... 800% more replies 

Let me pitch in then....

What are consumer protection / advertising standards law like in the various countries where these have been sold, and in particular the US, where the company is based?

The packaging describes these things as "Battery Life Extenders", and they clearly, demonstrably, and objectively do not work as advertised.

I'm not sure if there are any shipped to around here yet... maybe to Singapore... hmmmmmmm
As for my country Malaysia... when you get devices like the one in Dave's mailbag that claims to "decreases fuel consumption" and other similarly smelly bullshitty meerkatting (errr marketing) claims sold in shelves at large supermarket... yeah... fat chance

[Hensingler]

Very nearly time for Batteroo to choose their contest winner for this month. Which do you think it will be?

Dumb clock video?
Extremely Dumb makeup light video?
Old guy with Accordion video?
or this late and dumb entry?

[Halcyon]

or this late and dumb entry?

That guy put in 800% too much effort for that video. I suppose all these content entrants just want some chance of winning their money back for "investing" in Batteriser / Batteroo in the first place, I suppose I can't blame them.

[FrankBuss]

or this late and dumb entry?

Winner 

[Brumby]

Winner 

I have to agree.   

[dr_frost_dk]

1st new comment in almost 2 weeks, think people have given up on batteroo and getting their selves.
EDIT: And now deleted

[Domagoj T]

Not really related, but couldn't help thinking about this thread.

[Jay_Diddy_B]

Hi,

Nice video. Omni could have won bought a Frost and Sulivan award.

Regards,

Jay_Diddy_B

[samgab]

Not really related, but couldn't help thinking about this thread.

Lol, how could this NOT be inspired by Batteroo-iser? Someone should do a Batteroo parody of this parody of "real people" advertising...

[EEVblog]

This guy from Exar got duped 

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/cool-invention-saves-you-money-frustration-alan-elbanhawy

And our friend Ali is at it again, shall we accept his challenge and use the Golf GPS with actual AA Batterisers? I think this has to be done to shut them up for good.

[EEVblog]

And of course Dr Bob and Alan know each other from their Fairchild days 

Sure he just stumbled across the Batteriser 

Alan:


Dr Bob Roohparvar

[Blocco]

In among Alan's many dumb comments, this one stood out:

I always thought to myself, in the 21st century, why can’t we have a battery that lasts several times longer than the current battery lives?

Hmmm, yes Alan, why can't we have something several times better than is possible with our current technology?

Remember, Alan is an expert power system architect.

[daveake]

So let's see now, the people who say batteroo is good are:

• Bob and his family
• Bob's friends
• Bloggers paid by Bob

and anyone who says otherwise is sponsored by the battery industry? 

[daveake]

The family support group widens ... from those who "liked" the linked-in "review":

[EEVblog]

So let's see now, the people who say batteroo is good are:

• Bob and his family
• Bob's friends
• Bloggers paid by Bob

and anyone who says otherwise is sponsored by the battery industry? 

Correct. And they are 100% serious.

[rrinker]

 For Lakshmi there, I had to look that one up - "full stack developer". Oh, more %$&*@ useless buzzwords added to my industry to make the same old things appear new again. Well, a subset of my industry anyway - like all this garbage 'new ideas' like 'Agile' development and this whole scrum thing. Last time I was actually on a software development team, we did ALL that stuff, just without the buzzwords.

 Rather disappointing about Alan. Professional ethics? What professional ethics?

 Hmm - that 'new custom chip' Batteroo uses - maybe a Fairchild part?

[dr_frost_dk]

Some more soon to be deleted comments for the record

[EEVblog]

This is great fun!, poor Ali just can't help himself:

[daveake]

Holy shit, I need to go relearn what "constant current" is, because despite learning it before Ali was born, my understanding is obviously wrong 

[EEVblog]

Holy shit, I need to go relearn what "constant current" is, because despite learning it before Ali was born, my understanding is obviously wrong 

And of course, Mine and Frank's toy trains are not acceptable, but their toy train test is 
I have another AA toy train I might try, and I have a the exact same Golf G3 GPS on the way.
I was going to let this all just die, but Ali has just spurred my interest again! 

[Cerebus]

Holy shit, I need to go relearn what "constant current" is, because despite learning it before Ali was born, my understanding is obviously wrong 

No, no, didn't you read the learnéd gentleman's sage words? It is "constant circuitry", he does not recommend the use of Batteroo in devices with "constant circuitry".

So does that mean that they are only suitable for use in devices where the circuitry is constantly being re-wired?  Probably.

What's telling is that he made that mistake more than once. It sounds like a classic "boss mistake" where they don't understand what they have been told by someone technical and get it wrong in repeating it, like once when my boss emailed me about the Sun "spark" servers that we'd been talking about ordering (For those not in the know that should have been "SPARC").