I agree with Dave's earlier comment... All this chatter does help us electronics nerds to learn about certain fundamental principles - I couldn't care less if this forum necessarily altered the number of sales of the Batteriser by the folks on IndieGogo. Most have already made up their minds. They need to educate themselves. As the proverbial saying goes "You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him drink". From a selfish personal point of view, I just like exercising my brain muscle here and getting a more firm intuitive grasp on electronics and engineering.
There are a few things that I feel (in the context of other massively disgusting IndieGogo scams - take "Airing" for example...
https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/airing-the-first-hoseless-maskless-micro-cpap) make the Batteriser look like an Angel in comparison. Firstly, Batteriser *only* took in about $230,000 so far. Maybe they'll get up to $300,000, maybe $400,000. But not $1,000,000+ like Airing did. Secondly, the product is coming out in a few months.... There is a Fall 2015 Timeline Ship To Backers? - are they still on schedule? We will all get the product soon enough and be able to test it hands on! The "Airing" is not going to be available until mid-2017 and beyond... If it even gets developed (they have no prototype even). At least Batteriser has a prototype. Thirdly, the cost for the Batteriser is quite minimal. Seems like *most* backers for Batteriser are in at the $20-40 level... And they are getting them at about $2-3 a piece. Not bad, even if you want to hack the parts later and it is not a huge amount to lose on some total crap. The minimum "Airing" funding level for any product gets you into the $70-120 range at least.
Why am I comparing the two? Well, the "Airing" is a complete pile of nonsense that doesn't exist, fairy-tale land, with a team of people who are part of another defunct company take-over (with lawsuits also searchable in the U.S. legal files) and they took advantage of people with a medical condition to promise them a "Star Trek Fantasy" product.... And even after NUMEROUS INDIEGOGO COMPLAINTS nothing was ever done. They completed funding to 896% originally and now are "InDemand" and raising more.
So honestly, in the grand scheme of things, the Batteriser while it may be a complete pile of marketing B.S. and may only have a marginal benefit in certain situations, all-in-all the devastation it will cause on the poor unsuspecting backers is minimal. I feel like these Batteriser backers in a way are paying for my electronics education... because I've learned a lot from this entire fiasco. And the University professors and the University really, when it comes down to it, could use the cash more than anything it does to the so called "reputation". They are in it for the money.