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a series that we do on crowdfunded projects through kickstarter indiegogo
or whatever other platform that ship but don't exactly hit the mark today we're
going to be looking at the ampy move the world's first wearable motion charger
it's a portable smartphone battery that charges as you move
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the ampy kickstarter was wildly successful they raised 309
323 dollars they were featured in a number of major publications as well
people got excited and i get it they make you feel really good about wanting
to buy one they say stuff like your movement is your power your movement is
your power hell yeah it is ampy captures
the energy from your movement throughout the day and uses it to power your phone
and other wearables they talk about the future about how one day maybe their
technology will be integrated into smart watches and wearables so you never have
to plug them in again we're so excited about what's to come one day our
technology could be integrated directly into smart watches fitness trackers and
other crazy wearables that haven't been invented yet so you never have to plug
them in damn they're so cool i love this stuff
and i mean like look at this right on the front of the box it says one hour of
exercise equals five hours of smartphone battery life and just within the front
cover it says that this battery can charge one full smartphone charge no
asterisks that's just what they're saying they go on to state that people
have a problem with their phones dying before the end of the day we all have
the same problem our phones would die before the end of the day so many people
have this problem oh my god i have that problem please take my money and they
did which is why we're here today delivery wise they were okay we received
ours mostly on time with their website still being up and you can currently buy
them on amazon that puts stride technologies inc ahead of a lot of other
crowdfunded companies but i must say in response to a headline that someone from
buzzfeed copy pasted from another one of their articles why has no one invented
this before well buzzfeed here's the top
three reasons why one it barely works
two they exaggerated its capabilities and three this is key i would hardly
classify this as an invention nothing in it is a new technology and now if your
attention span is so impressive that you can get beyond buzzfeed keep watching to
learn more as we transition into the actual review section of this video well
it's a battery that charges with movement so to begin i gave it to three
different people and told them to do three different things with it taryn
biked around some city roads for a little bit and then did some various
workouts in the gym with it nick van burkel took it with him on a bmx bike to
a pump track both of these scenarios resulted in a net power generation of
nothing or at least nothing that i could measure by plugging it into my dead
phone and measuring the resulting charge keep in mind both of these guys doing both of these
things did it for at least an hour there's no way it's not charged at all i
was literally riding for an hour straight it is not charging
at all so yeah didn't work
wonderful maholo
i guess the little led did light up so there's that but that's it
that seemed odd because if you hold it in your hand and you know like jack it
for a little while it works the little led lights up and you can actually get
some charge onto your phone if you can go long enough
we got a little flash that was it that's where Linus came in i
secretly hate him so i sent him out for a jog for an entire hour with the
specific instruction that he needed to keep a lot of bounce in his step in
order to shake the ante he came back exhausted which was funny
and covered in sweat which was less funny when i had to actually take the
ampy from him then the led light lit up
i plugged it into my phone and it started to charge i genuinely got really
excited here Linus had to suffer and the ampy was actually going to work now okay
it's not all they claimed it would be neither of the previous benchmarks
worked at all if we had used the energy that it took to chill this water and
pump it into this building for me to consume it all while i ran
to charge a phone i mean there you go
but it's working now right
right no not really
a minute or two into charging i still hadn't gained a single percent and it
was starting to fail my phone seemed confused as to whether or not it was
charging and just a few seconds after that
it was all over if you live in a city you probably walk
enough to extend your phone's battery life by three hours
if you also go on a run or maybe go cycling you can extend it by six hours
the more you move the more power you get so big surprise it doesn't actually work
now let's address their claims one hour of exercise equals five hours of
smartphone battery life right well if you flip the box over it's a bit of a
different story now it's stating five hours of standby battery life but okay
okay what about the power's one full smartphone thing there can't be any
clever wording there right well it's based off an iphone 5c of all
things the battery listed on the box is only 1600 milliamp hours however it does
say on their website that it's 1800 milliamp hours whichever version of
their statements you decide to believe which at this point should probably be
neither it's just over or just under one half of
my pixel xl's maximum charge
that's pathetic
i mean you can just charge it from the wall like any
other freaking battery bank but you shouldn't because it's a terrible
battery bank with an embarrassing maximum charge for its size
and weight take these two batteries for
instance one from anker and one from chiro this one is 6700 milliamp hours
this one is 6400 milliamp hours if you put them together
they're actually just ever so slightly larger than the ampi yet with a combined
maximum charge of over 7 times more at
13 100 milliamp hours
just buy a normal battery bank so what happened to all that special
tech that it took three engineering phds from northwestern to develop
let's find out by tearing the ampy apart
wait so it's a magnet in an inductor
i mean i'm not that great at physics but you start learning this in grade like 11
or 12 don't you very impressive guys very impressive now
i'm not saying that the principle of operation here can't be useful in
certain situations it's a very cool idea just the implementation is nasty and
deplorable as far as i can tell they saw an advertisement on tv at like 2 a.m
advertising a flashlight that works when you shake it and had a sudden revelation
of oh my god if we just replace the capacitor that's in the end of there
with a battery we can store the charge longer
brilliant absolutely brilliant i love it it's
fantastic great idea speaking of brilliant john suggested a wonderful
kickstarter idea to me let's install water wheels in toilets and urinals so
people can charge their devices while they take a piss we should start a
kickstarter anyways the ideas aside what's their
future well no news yet and hopefully it stays that
way for the sake of their potential future customers looking at the comments
from their current ones on kickstarter reveals an impressive and inspiring
amount of anger i speak for you and again just like last time this
product wasn't exactly just released but they're still trying to sell it so i
thought i'd try to alert people before they try to flush their money down their
toilet alongside their waterwheel of power generation
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