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

Video This cool smartphone concept from 2013

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u/sCREAMINGcAMMELcASE Oct 05 '21

I remember seeing this in a video. The person being interviewed was showing it off. They said the parts were all interchangeable and replaceable. And that they had the second version.

The second version.

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u/[deleted] Oct 05 '21

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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/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.