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Funding for iFind Kickstarter Suspended

Posted by Unknown on from the didn't-see-that-one-coming dept.

An anonymous reader writes As of approximately 9AM PDT, funding for the iFind project at Kickstarter, the one with the bluetooth tags that have no battery and that harvest energy from WiFi and other radio sources, has been suspended. No word yet on how this came about. Not an unexpected outcome since their claims of harvesting enough energy for a Bluetooth beacon from ambient wireless signals looked pretty far-fetched.

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  1. pnysically impossible by swschrad · · Score: 1, Redundant

    so it's self-delusion or fraud. you would have to be three tower rungs below a broadcast antenna to harvest enough power, and you'd get very, very fried.

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    if this is supposed to be a new economy, how come they still want my old fashioned money?