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Nanotech Brings Battery Life Extender for Mobiles

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the extended-play dept.

An anonymous user writes "Using latest nanotechnology research, BatMax developed the first cellphone battery life booster that extends the mobile phone battery life and reduces charging time. BatMax is based on the IonXR, a new exclusively developed nanoceramic material, resulting from years of laboratory research. BatMax foil slows down the loss of capacity of Ni-CD, Ni-MH, Li-Ion and Li-Polymer batteries and thus provides improved battery performance. BatMax is a small (1.14 x 1.92 in) rectangular sticker which is installed on the mobile phone battery. Users just need to attach BatMax to the battery or the cellphone. They claim users will notice a battery life improvement after 5 to 10 charging cycles."

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  1. Hmmm... by richard-parker · · Score: 5, Interesting
    I note the following:
    1. A technical description that sounds like dialog on Star Trek Voyager.
    2. No phone number anywhere on the batmax.com site.
    3. The terms & conditions instruct you to send returns to an incomplete address:


    4. BatMax Corporation
      Miami FL
      USA

    5. They used an anonymous domain proxy service to register their domain:
    6. <whois://batmax.com>
      Registrant:
      Domains by Proxy, Inc.
      15111 N Hayden Rd., Suite 160
      PMB353
      Scottsdale, Arizona 85260
      United States
      ...
    Come to your own conclusions.
  2. April 1st or inexcusable advertising plug ? by gorim · · Score: 4, Interesting

    You be the judge. This sounds like something in the realm of the fake cell-phone antenna extenders.

    Stick a sticker on a battery to extend its life ? Someone needs to get a life.

  3. Re:Cool! by Doc+Ruby · · Score: 3, Interesting

    My antenna extender sticker worked. Verizon's crappy signal would often fluctuate right around the minimum threshold of reception in my house, often dropping calls every minute or so. After applying the sticker, the signal meter was unchanged, but calls were dropped much more rarely - only once a week or so. The sticker seemed to improve the reception just enough to keep it above the threshold to maintain carrier.

    This battery sticker, though, seems less likely. The sticker was working on the signal in the space around the phone, where the sticker actually had an electromagnetic interaction. How this passive component affects activity in a circuit in which it is not connected, sounds more like a scam.

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  4. More bullshit from slashdot by g0at · · Score: 4, Interesting

    but what's more astonishing, Roland Piquepaille didn't submit this one! Remarkable.

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  5. Re:Cool! by billh · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I just want to second Doc Ruby before he gets called an idiot. My sticker also worked, at least for one thing. I had a Sprint phone that would drop calls when I was walking up an internal stairway in my house. Every time. With the sticker added, the calls did not drop.

    It had no other effect that I noticed.