{"id":7177,"date":"2015-08-09T08:00:50","date_gmt":"2015-08-09T13:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hcstx.org\/?p=7177"},"modified":"2015-08-09T08:00:50","modified_gmt":"2015-08-09T13:00:50","slug":"the-batteriser-essential-prepper-gear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/2015\/08\/09\/the-batteriser-essential-prepper-gear\/","title":{"rendered":"The “Batteriser”: Essential Prepper Gear"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Batteriser is a $2.50 gadget that extends disposable battery life by 800 percent<\/h1>\n
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by\u00a0Jon Phillips<\/a> |<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Bob Roohparvar tells a killer story of industrial espionage. He says the robbery occurred last October at his Batteroo office space in a sprawling Silicon Valley office park. The target was intellectual property surrounding Batteriser<\/a>, a simple metal sleeve that promises to give consumers up to eight times<\/em> more life from their disposable batteries, AAA through D.<\/p>\n

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The crooks clearly knew the building layout, and exactly what they were looking for\u2014namely, a breakthrough technology that, if legit, could blow the lid off an alkaline battery industry that\u2019s worth $3.4 billion annually in the US alone.<\/p>\n

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\u201cIt was a very, very professional job,\u201d says Roohparvar. \u201cThey passed by all the offices with open doors, and then banged the hell out of my door, breaking it in. The doorknob was slammed so hard into the wall, it got stuck in the plaster. They took my hard disk and a bunch of USB drives. They took our Batteriser samples. They knew exactly how much time they had before the police would respond.\u201d<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Roohparvar, who has a Ph.D. in electrical engineering and a long career<\/a> in power management including a VP stint at Broadcom and a CEO stint at FlexPower, says he\u2019s not worried about the theft, because Batteriser has full patent<\/a>protection. But once the battery manufacturers grasp what Batteriser can do\u2014assuming it works as advertised\u2014they<\/em> might be worried by this simple gadget, which will cost just $10 for a pack of four when it goes on sale in September.<\/p>\n

Read the Remainder at TechHive<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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