The uBeam FAQ

[JiggyNinja]

Preaching to the choir here, Dan.

[PaulReynolds]

Looks like the COO has departed.

http://liesandstartuppr.blogspot.com/2017/03/another-one-bites-dust.html

[EEVblog]

Looks like the COO has departed.
http://liesandstartuppr.blogspot.com/2017/03/another-one-bites-dust.html

As long as the band keeps playing, everything will be fine...

[Howardlong]

From LinkedIn...

COO
Company Name uBeam
Dates Employed Sep 2015 – Feb 2017 Employment Duration1 yr 6 mos LocationSanta Monica Ca
Lead the Development and execution of uBeam Operations - including processes/functions associated with Design for X, supplier sourcing/management, IT development and deployment, Demand and supply planning, manufacturing, delivery and logistics, after sales support including installation, warranty, and call center support.

Well, nothing beats a good bullshit on your CV/resume/LinkedIn profile I guess.

[EEVblog]

From LinkedIn...

COO
Company Name uBeam
Dates Employed Sep 2015 – Feb 2017 Employment Duration1 yr 6 mos LocationSanta Monica Ca
Lead the Development and execution of uBeam Operations - including processes/functions associated with Design for X, supplier sourcing/management, IT development and deployment, Demand and supply planning, manufacturing, delivery and logistics, after sales support including installation, warranty, and call center support.

Well, nothing beats a good bullshit on your CV/resume/LinkedIn profile I guess.

 

Surely the company is now all but dead?
There doesn't seem to be anyone there doing the technical hard yards, practically every executive and technical head is gone.
And they can't seem to hire anyone new.
Just a slow bleed until the remaining money runs out?
No one would be dumb enough to invest again given almost every high profile person has left.

[coppice]

From LinkedIn...

COO
Company Name uBeam
Dates Employed Sep 2015 – Feb 2017 Employment Duration1 yr 6 mos LocationSanta Monica Ca
Lead the Development and execution of uBeam Operations - including processes/functions associated with Design for X, supplier sourcing/management, IT development and deployment, Demand and supply planning, manufacturing, delivery and logistics, after sales support including installation, warranty, and call center support.

Well, nothing beats a good bullshit on your CV/resume/LinkedIn profile I guess.

"Execution of uBeam Operations" sounds remarkably honest.

[EEVblog]

Just checking in, are they still in business?

[Howardlong]

Just checking in, are they still in business?

That sounds like a leading question to me.

[PaulReynolds]

Still going, and I'd guess in the midst of a fundraising round just now. Don't be surprised to see another substantial investment round announced in the next two months. That demo will be compelling for those who don't get that the laws of physics don't change over time, and that Moore's Law doesn't apply here. Remember this is a VC world that put $120m into a juicer, and Energous (WATT) has a market cap of $300m. I'd say it's a coin toss as to whether this happens or not, but there's a ton of money out there looking for a home right now, and someone might be dumb enough to use WATT as the benchmark, which would be ironic given the similarities there.

[StillTrying]

ubean doing a survey 
https://twitter.com/ubeam/status/849025411728068608

[StillTrying]

It looks like someone has trademarked the word ubeam, that will help a lot. 

http://www.trademarkia.com/ubeam-87376934.html

[tszaboo]

ubean doing a survey 
https://twitter.com/ubeam/status/849025411728068608

I just told them, that I hope they will get brain cancer from their own product.
And I'm dead serious.
They remind me of children, trying to charge phones with loaded machine guns or lasers that can blind you, waving some papers, that none of those things can kill you, because we did a test for 0.01s and the machine gun did not hurt anyone. Trying to install it in public places.

[PaulReynolds]

That looks to have been uBeam that trademarked it, so not an issue.

However, Energous creating a ton of patents in acoustic wireless power transfer might be...

http://liesandstartuppr.blogspot.com/2017/04/energous-challenge-ubeam-in-ultrasound.html

[PaulReynolds]

They're hiring!

https://www.cybercoders.com/jobs/details/258227/

Allow me to summarize:

"If you are a God of Engineering and don't like your $500k+ job with Apple, come work for us for $200k. You get to break boundaries!"

[Dubbie]

Lol!
What a laundry list.
Perhaps they figure it might be cheaper to hire ONE person to: Invent (oops, Meredith already did the hard part), Design, Prototype, Do the industrial design, Develop for production.
A whole team clearly costs too much at this stage!

If I was an investor this would be a frightening advertisement.

[David Chamberlain]

Buy why? look how much fun they seem to be having. What with so many out of the BOX thinkers on the wall to inspire everyone not to accept commonly held scientific dogma.


https://ubeam.com/career

[StillTrying]

Are they sure it's a good idea to fill the walls with pictures of people who understood the laws of physics.

They're hiring!
https://www.cybercoders.com/jobs/details/258227/

What You Need for this Position
More Than 15 Years of experience and knowledge of:

- Electrical engineering design/engineering/build/test
- Acoustic transducer driver (or low frequency power amplifier) & interface electronics
- Electronics simulation (eg SPICE), design optimization, and model iteration using experimental data
- Mixed signal (analog & digital) ASIC design
- Battery charging and power management electronics
- Microcontroller programming and architecture
- PCB design, engineering, build, and test experience
- Key differentiator is specific experience in all common methods of PCB fabrication and assembly (etch/mill/stencil/pick-place/etc)
- Design AND build experience with high density PCBs
- Chip-on-board & flex circuit design experience
- Consumer electronics design experience
- ASIC Design & ASIC House Selection
- Electronics production and manufacturing experience
- Experience in selecting EE components, writing detailed electrical specification of the system interface, and test plan documents
- Communication of design requirements to fabrication houses
- Define Design for Manufacturing (DFM) guidelines
- Prototype build, test, and debugging
- Working with vendors/suppliers/manufacturing partners
- Experience in analyzing trade-offs between performance, manufacturability and cost
- Clearly articulate, track, and drive project objectives in a dynamic, fast-paced environment

 

[StillTrying]

Are these things available in the shops yet ? 

https://twitter.com/meredithperry/status/867278941710626816

[Howardlong]

Are these things available in the shops yet ? 

https://twitter.com/meredithperry/status/867278941710626816

Amazing what $20m can buy you these days.

[StillTrying]

Amazing what $20m can buy you these days.

Isn't it nearer $60m and 6 years. Their steerable phased flat panel is becoming a bit parabolic.

[Howardlong]

Amazing what $20m can buy you these days.

Isn't it nearer $60m and 6 years. Their steerable phased flat panel is becoming a bit parabolic.

Sorry, I guess I missed that last phase of phunding (sic).

It still looks like a phased array, done in a hexagonal tiles of about 14 x 14 transducers.

I may be mistaken but they appear to have cunningly airbrushed/defocused the transducer stack for some reason. Or maybe it's the air in front of the transducers going into non-linearity and refracting the light. 

Meantime, there appears to be a rubber brick attached to the phone, approximately six times the volume of the phone, and probably six times the mass, possibly protecting it from disintegration from the ultrasonic beam. It looks like poor Meredith's nail varnish is suffering delamination already.

[cdev]

Is "A world without wires" a play on "A world without walls" which is a neoliberal slogan?

[StillTrying]

I may be mistaken but they appear to have cunningly airbrushed/defocused the transducer stack for some reason.

It's so you can't see the MA40S4Ts. You can tell by the shadows that the hexagons aren't flat.

[PaulReynolds]

My take on this

http://liesandstartuppr.blogspot.com/2017/05/whats-in-picture.html

[EEVblog]

They're hiring!
https://www.cybercoders.com/jobs/details/258227/
Allow me to summarize:
"If you are a God of Engineering and don't like your $500k+ job with Apple, come work for us for $200k. You get to break boundaries!"

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