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When world leaders embarrass themselves and turn to denial

All hail our Fijian overlords!

I mean, if this investor that Fiji's PM praises can summon a laptop battery charged in 30 seconds, I really don't want to find out in how little time the Fijian PM can summon a nuclear bomb.
 
It "redirect the unused wasted energy within your device after your phone is fully charged. The app accepts, stores and releases this energy back into your battery upon request."

So it takes my fully charged phone, shunts that energy somewhere, stores it, then releases it. I propose a new name for a device that does that: a "battery." If it weren't an app, it would seem like just a weird backup battery, slowly shunting a little power from the main battery as you use your phone, so you never notice it's dropping faster than normal.

When your main battery is dead, poof, your backup battery dumps its charge into your main battery, and you're maybe not fully charged, but you've got a little life. Like driving around with a gallon of gas in the trunk, that's ultimately filled from the same service station nozzle as your main tank, but you won't be stranded on the roadside anymore when you main tank is empty.

But if there's no hardware in your phone for that, can an app do it? There are apparently lots of people/companies trying to develop true over the air chargers that 1) require hardware, and 2) don't rob peter to pay paul.
 
It "uses evolutionary technology".

I want to know what that is. :)
 
This app could have a simple mode of operation. All it needs to do is to generate the symptoms of a discharged battery while there is still, say, 10% of the original charge left. It then releases this to be used on command. If advertised correctly, it's not even a scam.
IIRC, early VWs did this. They had no gas gauge but "ran out of gas" while there was still a 30-mile reserve in the tank that the driver could draw on.
 
Didymus said:
This app could have a simple mode of operation. All it needs to do is to generate the symptoms of a discharged battery while there is still, say, 10% of the original charge left. It then releases this to be used on command. If advertised correctly, it's not even a scam.
IIRC, early VWs did this. They had no gas gauge but "ran out of gas" while there was still a 30-mile reserve in the tank that the driver could draw on.
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Like a motorcycle still does. Flip the fuel tap over to reserve.
 
The irony is the app probably has so much flash graphics it probably flattens your battery faster.
 
Darat said:
So far it looks like the app doesn't even exist!
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Come now Darat.

Yea of little faith.

I can personally garauntee that for the small sum of 500 dollars I can give you a years worth of petrol.

You just need to make a 2 thousand dollar direct debit for the sign up fee
 
fuelair said:
I do not think there is any useful definition of World Leader that would encompass any Fijian - even it's head of state. Nothing against Fiji or any other small not very important country, just reality.
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You'd be surprised

The Chinese and US are over them like flies.

Perfect military position in the pacific
 
Just out of curiosity I read the description of this app to a coworker who (by her own admission) is a bit gullible:

ME: "It uses evolutionary technology to let users instantly recharge their smart phone's battery without the need for a charger or external battery pack."

HER: "Wait, how would that even work?"

ME: "The app saves excess power after a phone is fully charged, so at the push of a button a user can recharge in under 30 seconds wherever they are."

HER: "Oh, okay. So it lies and says you're out of battery and then says you're full again."

Just like that. I congratulated her on being smarter and having more critical thinking skills than the entire government of Fiji. This whole thing reminds me a lot of Iraq buying dowsing rods to find bombs - at least this InstaCharge app isn't likely to get anyone blown up.

Iraq Bomb Dowsing Thing
 
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