Nanotech Brings Battery Life Extender for Mobiles 489
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."
Hmmm... (Score:5, Interesting)
BatMax Corporation
Miami FL
USA
April 1st or inexcusable advertising plug ? (Score:5, Interesting)
Stick a sticker on a battery to extend its life ? Someone needs to get a life.
Re:Hmmm... (Score:1, Interesting)
http://www.batmax.com/about.php
The picture of the building is the Espirito Santo Plaza building in Miami (http://www.emporis.com/en/wm/bu/?id=100768)
Interestingly, a Google search "batmax espirito" resturns nothing.
People here have the same doubts:
http://www.modaco.com/index.php?showtopi
Re:Cool! (Score:2, Interesting)
I just noticed something even more odd about the copyright date -- it says "Copyright 2003 BetaMax Corporation", yet on the "About Us" page it states:
Founded in January 2004 in USA, BatMax Corporation was formed to identify, develop, manufacture and market innovative high quality wireless communications and computer products.
So, it's Copyright 2003 to a corporation founded in 2004. They've obviously invented time-travelling (copyright) stickers too.
Any relation to http://www.batterylife.de/ (Score:2, Interesting)
Antenna boosters (Score:3, Interesting)
I always laughed at those. Yes the Army put balls on the antennas, so they won't poke anybody in the eye.
Guys like these make Star Trek science sound good.
I have a question (Score:2, Interesting)
Re:Cool! (Score:4, Interesting)
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.
More bullshit from slashdot (Score:5, Interesting)
-b
Re:Cool! (Score:4, Interesting)
It had no other effect that I noticed.
Re:Tests from france (Score:2, Interesting)
As they financially gain from promoting this product, their review is less than worthless: It's most likely intentionally misleading.
Cheers!
*BEEP* *BEEP* (Score:2, Interesting)
Re:Cool! (Score:2, Interesting)
Product extends laptop battery "talking time" according to the website. They also developing DSL version of a sticker. Sticking it on your DSL modem increases your download speed 30%!!!
Where do I sign up?
Why? (Score:3, Interesting)
Great Gauss, why? If astroturfers got horribly burned by some *cough* anonymous people with l33ter skills than mine, perhaps they'd stop trying to peddle their crap to us. It's like spam---one in ten thousand Slashdot readers will buy this crap, but that makes it well worth Alain Aisenberg's time.
The only way to make it stop is to make it not worth Aisenberg's time.
If the editors won't do something about it, perhaps some of the readers should.
--grendel drago