Motion Activated Battery Bank - Stupid. Sad. - Kickfarted Ep 3

Kickfarted Ep 3 revisits the AMPY Move, a wearable motion charger that claimed to turn movement into smartphone power. The host starts by recounting the product hype from crowdfunding campaigns, the promised slogan that movement is power, and the bold assertion that one hour of exercise could yield five hours of phone battery life. The review then pivots to hands-on testing with three participants: a city bike ride, gym workouts, and a BMX pump track run, all aimed at generating usable charge. Across these experiments, the device consistently fails to deliver any meaningful power, with charging only briefly visible under specific conditions and never progressing beyond a single percent during testing. The verdict emphasizes that, despite the hype and the initial excitement, the AMPY Move underdelivers and is outperformed by ordinary power banks in both capacity and reliability. The host then disassembles the unit to reveal a simple coil and magnet arrangement, arguing that the device’s core technology is not novel and its implementation is flawed. In the closing segments, the reviewer criticizes the marketing claims as exaggerated, urges potential buyers to be wary, and suggests safer, more practical alternatives for charging on the go, while also poking fun at the overall concept and its crowdfunded origins.

Topics · science_and_technology · product_review · crowdfunding · consumer_electronics