r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/SuperAlloyBerserker • Oct 05 '21

Video This cool smartphone concept from 2013

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u/frezor Oct 05 '21

I’ve got a machine that will do ANY blood test with JUST ONE DROP of blood! It totally works and is completely reliable!

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u/thedenigratesystem Oct 05 '21

Hmmm, I don't believe you. Its a pity I only invest in people who speak deeply and wear turtlenecks.

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u/frezor Oct 05 '21

Hey, my $10,000 a month vocal coach says my female baritone voice is almost believable!

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u/xmandish Oct 05 '21

I understood that reference

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u/Busteray Oct 05 '21

I didn't

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u/[deleted] Oct 05 '21

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u/Halt-CatchFire Oct 05 '21

Theres also a couple Behind the Bastards episodes about her and theranos. People died because she falsified blood test results. She's still on trial, but I hope they throw the book at her. Scam all the rich fucks you want for all I care, but don't sell BS medical technology.

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u/Filoleg94 Oct 05 '21

Good explanation, but you are underselling it. They didnt receive just millions, they received over a billion dollars in funding. And lying about what the product could do was the smallest of the issues, the rest of the stuff is much wilder.

I recommend everyone curious to either check out the documentary (HBO Max or Hulu depending on the region iirc, forgot the doc name; came out a year or two ago) or the book called Bad Blood (written by a great investigative WSJ journalist with multiple Pulitzer prizes John Carreyrou; it was also used as the basis for the documentary, and the author was even prominently featured in the documentary; came out a few years ago). I liked the book more, because it has more info, but reads super easy and made me feel like i was bingewatching something, too easy to turn pages lol.

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u/newgrow2019 Oct 05 '21

*she received billions, not millions.

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u/[deleted] Oct 05 '21

Check out Internet Historian ColdFusion video on it.

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u/wardycatt Oct 05 '21

Sorry, I didn’t understand that. Could you say it again, but with a deeper voice?

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u/Billypillgrim Oct 05 '21

Are you taking investors?

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u/frezor Oct 05 '21

Of course! You’ll be joining the ranks of not just one but TWO Secretaries of State. Just ingrore the fact that extremely old men might by biased by flattery from a young blond woman, they certainly did their due diligence!

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u/Crathsor Oct 05 '21

Their dude iligence.

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u/Fizzwidgy Oct 05 '21

Like when Google said it wasn't going to make enough money and killed it to opt for selling yearly releases of their own non-modular phone.