I know that on my old HP camera, which I still sometimes use for things, it is pertty much never set correctly since it loses the date and time whenever you remove the batteries for any significant length of time and so I just never bother to set it.
Yep, I thought that as well. What's the chances of them bothering to set the date correctly for those photos? That's almost suspicious all by itself.
I have to admit these photos are a bit of a curvebal and I'm not sure what to think. The only theories I can come up with are:
a) It's a con and they
did edit the EXIF data. The photos are of some prototyping they did last year.
Editing EXIF isn't rocket science and the Batterisers they were to Yahoo showing last summer
were professionally manufactured, not hand-made. It's almost certain that they have some prototyping junk lying around somewhere to photograph.
b) It's not a con and they're actually manufacturing something.
This only makes sense if they've hooked some new investors. They know they won't get any repeat orders so there's no way they'd spend any of their own personal money on manufacturing Batterisers. It would be money down the drain from their point of view.
Conclusion: If they're spending money on manufacturing it must be
somebody else's money.
What if they've got a big new investor who's prepared to invest in the company so long as manufacturing starts up ASAP? That would explain this.
Then again: Why post crappy photos on IndieGoGo? What's the point of that?
The only person interested in updates would be the new investor.
c) They've had a change of heart. All the negative comments have struck home and they decided to spend their own money to make things right, even though they know it doesn't work as advertised and they won't get any repeat business.