I'm still waiting for the cordless TVs and the stick on light bulbs.
I wonder what the new CEO thinks he's going to be doing at uDream, shuffling the deck chairs?
Going by the times I'm often the first/only to read a uDream article, I don't think there's anyone going to see them at CES tomorrow.
My best guess is he thinks he can tie a pretty bow on this thing and sell it off for enough to get the investors their money back and himself a fat bonus, in less than a year to 18 months. The previous COO was the last guy brought in to do that, but he had to work with Perry as well and IMO to expect two miracles from anyone is a bit much.
I would think the CES "demo" will show they can charge at the mW level, with large, inefficient, (if you dig) expensive devices, and not selling a large scale cost-effective production method, just the IP licence, the price down bit is someone else's problem. Thing is, Powercast basically already sell that, with all FCC licenses except small and cheap(ish). I expect it's why they are banging the "electrosensitive" drum because it's the only thing they have that's 'better' than an existing product.
And yes, there's a diminishing interest in my uBeam blog articles, and people I speak to are "Isn't that dead yet?"