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5:15 he's actually correct. He never says haptic feedback, he says 'haptic functionality' which just refers to touch. So the fact that the device is responding to touch, swipes, and gestures is indeed haptic features.
I can imagine some use cases for a device like this-- if it actually worked well. (Which it doesn't) It got funded because people wanted what the device promised-- not what it actually was.
Saddest part? His vision of a tablet like display for your mobile phone actually came to be from another company - the nexpad is out now and its pretty much what he wanted, except an actual functional device
I'm pretty sure I bought that Galaxy Tab for like $160 at Target in either 2016 or 17. Which you may notice is a) half the price of this thing and b) was bought at a real store that would have given me a refund if I didn't get anything
@SuprousOxide don't forget the ever important d) made by a recognizable company who are capable of supporting the thing after release (Even if they don't actually do so lmfao)
I second that. Although the Kickscammer videos often obviously have a level of humour for the sheer "it's a blatant con" side of things, I thought the conclusion of the video was very respectfully and sensitively handled. Kudos, Slopes.
I have to add... I know Slope put that up their with good intentions but to every individual person here reading this. If you know someone who seems depressed or suicidal, talk to them (not necessarily about suicide). Just be a good f**kin' friend ! So many times I have seen people put that on Facebook posts, acting like they are making some kind of difference, yet when a friend of theirs who is depressed reaches out just to talk they are ignored. I was depressed and saw so many of my "friends" post that but when I reached out just to say hey and make small talk they couldn't even muster the time it would take to say hello. Sometimes when someone is depressed they just need someone to reach out and say "Hey, you wanna see a movie ?"
You may have removed the Selena Gomez song from that INCREDIBLY, awkwardly long “watching a video” segment, but I wouldn’t have been surprised had the KS video was uploaded as completely silent.
12:26 Ooof, I saw what was coming at this point. I'd never wish this state of mind upon my worst enemy, this is never an easy topic, nor a situation where someone can claim to know the full story, but what baffles me the most is the amount of people that's ready to put their money (AND demand it back) into something they don't have a clear idea on whether they need it... maybe not even why they wanted it.
With all due respect to the sad outcome, what a intriguingly curious tale. It does make me wonder, considering some of the fella's unusual (and to be honest sometimes bizarre) conduct and ridiculous claims during his Kickstarter videos, as well as the resulting fiasco, if he had maybe experienced some sort of psychological troubles prior to all of this (again, said with due respect). We'll probably never know the complete circumstances, but it does beg so many questions and theories.
This is absolutely a possibility. I feel like Brent may have been a guy who didn't recognize his own limitations until he had already made way too many promises he couldn't keep with way too much money already spent or invested to be able to make everybody whole again. He's actually one of the few guys I have seen on here that I genuinely feel bad for. I look at a lot of this stuff, and his own videos, and I don't see someone trying to nefariously scam people. I see someone who has some grandiose ideas that he doesn't understand he can't facilitate into reality. The whole situation is terrible. People got screwed out of a lot of money, and Brent ultimately paid for it in the worst way possible.
The guy committed suicide after getting caught with cheese pizza (he was under several serious investigation)... With certain research he was underinvestigation from IC3 for wirefraud, and was looking as CP charges in SE Asia. He was booted from his first company Kinematics Manufacturing after lewd pictures of minors were found on his laptop.
This is more of a case of why backers should make at least the smallest amount of thinking and research before throwing hundreds of dollars at (at best) an obviously hopeless product.
Really makes whichever site look a little guilty, not vetting or analysing each project closer......the less they do, the more 💸 they might see 😒 This species.....
Why the fuck do people ask for refunds on Kickstarter 🙄If you haven't figured it out in 2022 that all Kickstarter money should be counted as a loss the second you spend it, there's no hope.
@@koweedate Kickstarter has never been an online store and is for investments for projects. Asking for a refund on a failed kickstarter is akin to asking a casino for your money back because you didn’t win.
@@stoplickingmonkeys No, Kickstarter is decidedly NOT an investment firm, a charity, or any form of gambling establishment. If it were it would be subject to FAR more rigorous and draconian regulation.
It is kind of disappointing that those backers are still asking up to this day for refund from a dead guy. They should have reached their banks and request for a reversal / chargeback and tell them (the bank) that "they didn't get what they have paid for". That way, they can still get their money back. Then again they may have missed the part to reach out to bank if in case there would be any issues on merchants if in case a failed delivery Still, RIP to the person though
I don't know why people don't do this more, 9 times out of 10, chargebacks are successful. Coming from an online business owner, I've even had scummy customers successfully get their chargebacks even though I shipped and delivered their products, didn't even have to return the product to me.
@@PissedOffBanker Chargebacks are USUALLY only available to credit card holders and not for debit card purchases. Sucks that you've had to deal with scammer customers requesting fraudulent chargebacks and still keeping the product...those folks are nothing but crooks plain and simple. Gamers Nexus just reported how the CEO of a boutique PC builder requested successful chargebacks from legitimate vendors, payments to subcontractors, and even from his own employees using their personal money to purchase inventory stock for his company through Ebay. The world is full of assholes lol.
@@PissedOffBanker Isn't there a time limit on reversals like that? If so I'm assuming that window would have elapsed by the time most people figured out their product was never going to show. Again based on the belief that there is a time limit (which of course there should be).
I genuinely don’t understand why anyone thought this was an even partially acceptable idea. It makes no sense. The guy that started the campaign is 100% a scammer from day 1, but the absurdity of it makes me fully blame the people that donated money. It’s baffling to try understanding this.
6:00 He doesn’t say “haptic feedback”, he just says “haptic” which means touch. So he is just using a pointlessly technical term for touch controls. He’s not wrong, he’s just pretentious.
Are you actually owed a refund if the Kickstarter you back falls through? Like it’s not a store, just an investment in someone’s idea. I’ve always thought of it as a gamble, and while I hope I get the end product, I count the money as gone as soon as I contribute.
Kickstarter typically puts a disclaimer that whatever money you put down on a project is legally treated as a donation so unless the Kickstarter conducted something blatantly fraudulent, backers rarely get refunds.
With this video's title, I was expecting a story about how a faulty power source caused a spark that burnt a house down, or about a greedy business partner trying to take all the money for themself, and not...well, how this video ended. I'm only learning about this guy now, so I can't really pass fair judgement, but I do hope that people with similar mental states are able to get the help they need before making a choice that will hurt the people that care about them.
Another couple recent kickstarter failures are the board game Grendha and a 3d printer for $89 shipped. The guy behind Grendha used the money to pay medical bills then shut down the project. The 3d printer apparently was a real product but the guy behind it got scammed by the guy helping him with it.
As someone who has only recently been dealing with these sorts of issues, this fucking hurts. God knows the product was bullshit, but fuck. What a horrible thing to happen. May he rest peacefully.
For a hundred bucks I recently bought just a screen. However, it uses usb-c for one wire power and data from a phone. It has mini hdmi. It's mm thick and has good sound. It's perfect for traveling with laptop, Xbox, chromecast, and sometimes phone.
Oh my. I remember my dad showing me that campaign page and telling me that he wanted to make something like that, but I keep having to tell him that something like that wasn't possible due to software limitations. (10:52) Rather than a Galaxy Tab, what those testers got appears to be some Chinese no-name tablet that probably runs Android with a fake version number and specifications. (11:37) I follow his Twitter page and didn't know he was involved! Oh my!
I thought I was remembering wrong. But that’s the big thing to do: announce something and everyone acts like it’s the first time it has ever happened. Some actually announce “this is the first time ever” until someone points out it existed before.
@@leileyaravencroft i was getting my knee looked at (I think) the Irvine medical center in summer of 2000, and the nurse had this touch screen clipboard wuth a stylus that had what looked like the MacOS we were using in the IMacs we had procured in the computer lab at school.
I should point out that many (affordable) tablets have been available for years which can also take a SIM card, and make calls, or have Internets while on the move. Which makes the superscreen even more redundant. lol
3:42 The answer to "Why not use a screen that is the right size" is two fold. First what is a "Cellphone" Aspect ratio, there are multiple sizes of cellphone screens, taller, wider, they all have to fit. Second and most obviously, this is a kickstarter not a new product from Samsung, nobody is going to be spin up a new assembly line for special LCD/LED panels with only 2Mill, they are going to be using commodity parts.
From all the info within the vid this feels like a Paterson who had an idea he was passionate about making but had no idea how hard or expensive it was to make it a reality. So ya have someone way way out of his element with no knowledge on how to do most of anything hoping things will work out which ultimately do not. I believe his final post which mentions that this was putting a strain on him and his family financially and that it’s failure ruined him. That all of it and the fallout is what drove him to end his life. It’s a sad story. I feel bad for the backers and I feel bad for his friends and family.
It does confuse me why people want this so badly. At that time I believe cloning your display was possible (of course it heavily depended on what you were doing) and tablets existed like you said. I think the demographic of people that this was viable for would be parents who wanted to maybe monitor what's being used or....well the use case seems limited. Ultimately I wonder how such bizarrely outdated technological concepts exist and do well on kickstarter.
Haptic only means it's related to touch, nothing was said about feedback, which is just a touch sensation feedback. The multi touch screen he was showing would qualify.
How did people now know that was a Samsung INSTANTLY?? I was writing about this before he even said it was a Samsung. Anyone with any familiarity with tech would have known that instantly and should have exposed that.
People were warned. Evidence was provided. Some people went in depth to show this was a scam. They didn't listen. Many said those people were being negative. You can take a horse to Disneyland...
In a way, the way this campaign turned out was actually a good thing for those people. Anyone still backing this after being shown the warning signs hopefully is more aware in the future. And a few hundered dollars are a cheap price to pay compared to getting fooled by a genuine scammer some day in the future.
Ok. I dropped out of college I.T. class, like, 20 years ago?, so my knowledge base is incomplete and outdated, but I still noticed some red flags. High resolution? The super screen would be showing the relatively low resolution video feed it's getting from the phone, which only looks good because it's on a small screen, so it would look worse on a bigger screen. How would it be higher resolution on the super screen? The best it could do is upres the low resolution video signal, or rather, upscale the resolution. Like how the PS4 fakes 4k, and this is no PS4. How could this possibly look good?
@@thekell Right, you're better off just using the phone, it's designed to be optimized for portable use. On that size screen, sure it's high, but you can't just make an existing video feed a higher resolution on the super screen than it was on the phone. You would need to upscale the video resolution, which takes a lot of processing power. Also, displaying the same resolution on a bigger screen makes it look lower rez than it did on the phone, which makes the upscaling job harder. The limitation is the mirroring method he was using, you'd have to make the phone send a higher resolution signal to the super screen, than the phone is sending to the phone screen. I don't know if you can even do that, but regardless, it's not the method he was using. It might be easier to make a phone accessory device you connect to your phone that sends the signal to the super screen, than trying to add features to the phone's OS.
I am not sure what is worse, the fact this guy thought this was a good product to create, or thousands of people thought this was a good product to back.
Sure he was... Silly .. but wow ... Death is so final... In the end you feel sorry for him... A warning to people wanting to start their own Kickstarter... Be aware of your limitations and know you might fail... It's how you deal with that failure. Maybe if he had been honest... Sure people would have still raged but at least he'd have had his integrity... Such a shame.
Self reflection is pretty hard for anyone to acknowledge. This guy was in over his head, probably didn't secure enough external funding, and the lingering shame was overwhelming.
Still hoping there's going to be an ALL-Controller Kickscammer review! Granted, there have been some appearing, but it sounds like they're worthless & 4 years outdated.
Might be a simple question but apparently cannot be found on Google.. If I want to run/start a Kickstarter for a videogame I'm funding through Fiverr (where you can hire a team to make the game for you), which ''Porject Type'' would I have to select under ''Payments''; Individual, Business or Nonprofit?
To be clear, nobody anywhere has any evidence that the suicide was tied to the kickstarter. The best anyone can do is speculate. Unless you know something that didn't make it into the video
It’s amazing how many people believe ‘the dream’ and start investing money, without doing any critical thinking. The MMO ones are always particularly amusing. A team of 3 people who have never made a game before, are going to make the biggest and most ambitious MMO the world has ever seen, and they only want $150,000? On what planet does that seem like a good investment.
I don't get comparing it to having an iPad, the whole point is that I don't want to get another expensive device, everything I have is in my phone, that's why I just wanted a bigger screen to watch content on
"extreme high resolution", that oughta be atleast 8k-12k, people have had 1600x1200 since the 90s, and i dont think it was considered ... "extreme high".
"Tablets are just cheaper laptops!" Wow, a thing that's like this other thing but cheaper so more people can afford them? Sounds grea- wait why are you saying that like it's a bad thing?
@@mushyroom9569 Not really that grey, donating money is a gift with very little legal recourse to get that cash back sans exceptional circumstances. I would like to see some better consumer protection policies put into sites such as kickstarter etc but right now its effectively a gift. You have zero control over the finished product/service.
That guy literally fell into that Selena Gomez video and almost drowned in it right in front of the camera. You'd think he would have cut down the ogling by half or something. But I guess he didn't notice anything looked creepy. Just like he couldn't be asked to do a simple search to determine what haptic feedback meant. And anyway, multi touch screens weren't anything new anyways! I can't believe that raised 2 million dollars with that poor video. Just goes to show that the majority of backers had more money than common sense.
I could definitely see this being popular if it were real, if you had one you'd be upgrading your tablet's specs(apart from the display and maybe speakers if it has them) every time you upgraded your phone which is usually subsidized by a phone plan whereas tablets are usually bought outright.
Unknown Chinese contacts? Makes me wonder if there was some connection to the criminal underworld. If so, I'd imagine that such backers would not have been particularly happy with him.
There's tons of cheap chinese tablets (and I assure you, that's what his "end product" was) for like $30 that can do mirroring just like this, or you could go all out and spend $70 on a good brand, lol.
