After a long social media silence that began when the Orbo product launch went awry back in February, former Steorn CEO Shaun McCarthy has re-emerged with a vengeance. In the past 24 hours he’s been posting prolifically to his Facebook page, his Twitter account @orbomantweets, and a new blog he’s launched titled orboman. His posts […]
Earlier this week I received the following response from Steorn to an inquiry about the status of my OCube order: Apologies again for the ongoing delay. Unfortunately we are not in a position to provide a definitive shipping date, the cells are still spiking and causing electronic failures which the guys are working hard to […]
The Irish Sunday Business Post published an article about Steorn yesterday. It’s behind a paywall, so I’ll summarize it here. The short version is: it doesn’t look good. According to the article, Steorn, which has raised 23 million euros from private investors so far, has told its shareholders that it is “out of cash and […]
his morning Steorn began streaming a live test of an Orbo device on Twitch. The announcement on their Facebook page reads: This video stream shows an Orbo power cell in long term reliability testing. The test system comprises of an Orbo power cell that is being shorted through a relay at an approximate frequency of […]
I haven’t posted anything new here in over 5 weeks, because there’s been nothing new to report. Dead silence from Steorn, who have even stopped removing spam comments from their Facebook page. The closest thing to a new development is that Frank Acland of e-catworld.com managed to coax a small continuous trickle of current out […]
Monday morning Steorn sent the following e-mail to customers who had ordered an OCube: Dear Customer, First of all we would like to again thank you for your order and your interest in Orbo technology. We are contacting you to provide you with an update on the current situation with respect to product design, production […]
Along with others who have ordered an OCube from Steorn, I received the following e-mail this morning: Dear Customer, As you are aware there have been several delays in the shipping of your Ocube. We had placed shipments on hold due to some issues reported from initial users. We had identified the problem (a charge […]
This will be a quick update because there have been very few developments lately. Almost none of them were positive. First, neither Rachel Wallace nor Jennifer Roe have provided any further “weekly” updates about the status of their OPhones. It seems that their phones have fallen within what is, according to Steorn CEO Shaun McCarthy, […]
Steorn published a new video on their Facebook page today, in which CEO Shaun McCarthy explained the internals of the OCube and described the problems that have been encountered in shipping them so far. McCarthy states that there are now about 20 Orbo-powered products out in the “real world”, and the failure rate so far […]
Steorn’s spokesmodel Rachel Wallace (aka “#ogirl”) has given her second weekly update on her experience with the OPhone. In the brief video, she states that: The speaker wasn’t really working, so I came in to the offices today to get it fixed… As for the battery, same as last week, every time it runs off, […]
