Steorn energy machine in "still no demo" shock

[Stumpy Pepys]

Steorn energy machine in "still no demo" shock

Well, it would appear the Orbo is available to order. No reports of anyone actually getting one yet.

There's also the OPhone, the phone that never needs charging.

[ursus arctos]

Steorn energy machine in "still no demo" shock

They should be sure to buy ad time on the next Republican Presidential Debate

[Ginger Yellow]

Steorn energy machine in "still no demo" shock

Assuming they are actually taking orders and not just pretending to - an email address given on a Facebook page doesn't seem like much of a sales infrastructure for products costing hundreds of euros - this should at least put an end to this saga one way or another. Either they have a pretty underwhelming consumer product, or they'll get sued.

[Stumpy Pepys]

Steorn energy machine in "still no demo" shock

[Ek weet nie]

Steorn energy machine in "still no demo" shock

They got a big write-up in the Irish Times today. Not exactly an unfavourable article.

[Ginger Yellow]

Steorn energy machine in "still no demo" shock

Dispatches from the Future has yet to receive its cube.

[Stumpy Pepys]

Steorn energy machine in "still no demo" shock

You'd think the boys at Steorn would be more excited.

If this works, it's a guaranteed Nobel Prize, plus the kudos of overturning all known laws of physics and and unfeasible amounts of cash.

[WOM]

Steorn energy machine in "still no demo" shock

Apparently overturning the laws of physics causes you to chew through great gobs of investor money.

http://www.businesspost.ie/steorns-deficits-rises-to-e21-million-in-most-recent-accounts/

You'd think after all that effort, you'd do something better with it than a fairly inessential USB phone charger.

[caja-dglh]

Steorn energy machine in "still no demo" shock



Orbo laughs in your face with limitless energy.

[caja-dglh]

Steorn energy machine in "still no demo" shock

The phone looks like something you would buy though, WOM. Would go pretty well with you taste in shirts firmly lodged in "80s fashion".

[WOM]

Steorn energy machine in "still no demo" shock

Although cruel and hurtful, you're probably right. However, now that I've joined the uber-smartphone ranks, I couldn't be doing with a 'retro' no-function phone.

I don't expect the orbo phone will work any more than the 'battery' will.

[caja-dglh]

Steorn energy machine in "still no demo" shock

They are planning to release a never-ending battery smart phone later this year. Not long to wait.

[Ginger Yellow]

Steorn energy machine in "still no demo" shock

I've been wondering how long a dumbphone with a battery making up most of that case size would last on standby. Because I reckon that's about how long they have to scarper with the cash.

[WOM]

Steorn energy machine in "still no demo" shock

Seriously, though; what's the endgame? He just fucks off with whatever he's skimmed off the R&D funds? Because there's a pisspot full of money somewhere and he needs to have a good story ready about a week after sending out the first units.

[Ginger Yellow]

Steorn energy machine in "still no demo" shock

I'm shocked! Shocked, I tell you.

[Stumpy Pepys]

Steorn energy machine in "still no demo" shock

Did anyone ever receive one of their phone chargers they were apparently shipping?

[Crusoe]

Steorn energy machine in "still no demo" shock

Yes, I used it to charge this phone I'm typi

[Ginger Yellow]

Steorn energy machine in "still no demo" shock

A handful, but basically none of them worked. Steorn claimed it was because of a faulty charge controller.

[Borracho]

Steorn energy machine in "still no demo" shock

It seems they have reeled in €23 million of investors' money since 2007. Nice "work" if you can get it.

[Ginger Yellow]

Steorn energy machine in "still no demo" shock

And yet there would have been so many easier ways to run it as a scam. They're either really incompetent scanners or really incompetent engineers.

[Stumpy Pepys]

Steorn energy machine in "still no demo" shock

Steorn goes into liquidation.

[WOM]

Steorn energy machine in "still no demo" shock

"McCarthy - who will now earn his money playing online poker - said he understands that the notoriety of Steorn will follow him everywhere."