It's looking more and more like Fungus was right all along...
The signs were (are!) quite obvious:
a) Bogus claims
b) Nobody ever allowed to try one for themselves
c) Laughable videos and demos (very obvious lies)
d) The had $1 million in venture capital but they went after $30,000 on IndieGoGo. What for? $30,000 wouldn't even cover their lunch expenses for six months.
The only conclusion is that it's a scam. And they're thieves (I have no problem at all in calling them that - they're taking innocent people's money with the full knowledge they're never going to deliver).
They also give the impression of not being nice people, Ali in particular. Jokes about the dumpsters in Milpitas aside: Ali publicly made threats against people who tried to expose the scam (I'm guessing Ali isn't the brains of the duo).
I think that there are few other pieces to the puzzle.
1) The original Patent Application:
US 20120121943 A1 Structure and Method for Extending Battery Life
Was Filed by Fariborz Frankie Roohparvar in September 19, 2011.
This is a long time before the campaign started on IGG.
2) The later Patent application:
US 20150048785 A1 Filed November 3rd, 2014
Lists Bob and Frankie as the inventors. So some of the ownership has been transferred from Frankie to Bob.
We also have Bob's employment history:
March 2011 to September 5th 2012 Bob was President of DigitalOptics Corp.
November 2006 to December 2010 - Flextronics
2005 - 2006 Broadcom
I wonder if Frankie was helping his brother by giving a share of the Batteriser Patent?
As I have said before, Bob and Frankie's product is not the Batteriser, it the Batteriser company. They were hoping to create enough hype to be able to sell the company based on the hype.
Assume for a minute, that they have a product, if they release the product independent testing will show that it is worthless and ruin the chances of selling the company. So for this reason they may not want to release the product.
Regards,
Jay_Diddy_B