60 days from IGG funding to shipping was a stupid estimate
Not so if you are the former CEO of Flextronics, and you had pre-production prototypes which they claimed in no uncertain terms that they had.
Backers should never forget this!, direct from their IGG campaign page it clearly states they had pre-production prototypes before the IGG campaign was launched. Yep no evidence has ever been presented that they had "pre-production" prototypes. In fact all the evidence is to the contrary.
Like all things written by Bob 'king of doublespeak' Roohparvar you must be reading or testing it wrong
To add weight to Dave's assertion:
June 2nd: PC World early prototypes shown
July: Chip redesigned, not yet fabricated (expected October?) so no PPP
End of July (27th?): Indiegogo campaign starts. No mention of redesigned IC
End of August: Campaign over funded (300%?) and extended for another 30days.
In BobQuotes™:
Late October/early Nov 2015: "The early prototype that we took to PC World wasn't optimized yet for high-drain devices."
November 24th "We expected our final IC to be ready and out of the fabrication facility (FAB) over a month ago."
Dec 22nd 2015: "As you may recall, we initially planned to ship the 500 milli-amp beta version of the Batteriser; however, we made a strategic decision to deliver Batterisers with a new IC (Integrated circuit)"
Ali Roohparvar's comment (that was later deleted) eventually undermined the intention to ship the 500mA story, admitting they had redesigned the IC before the campaign started:
Ali Roohparvar, Dec 10th 2015: "We were ready to producte [sic] those over the summer. We designed a new IC in July to handle higher current."
Not relevant to pre-production prototypes, but still my favourite smoking gun quote:
Dec 22nd 2015: "The Batteriser final assembly is underway and packaging is nearly complete."