Medis Technology Introduces First Commercially Available Fuel Cell Solution

[Ekkie Tepsupornchai]

<div class='os_post_top_link'><a href='http://www.medistechnologies.com/content.php?id=62' target='_blank'>http://www.medistechnologies.com/content.php?id=62</a><br /><br /></div><i>"We call our first product the 'Medis 24/7 Power Pack'. It is a handy and disposable charger/portable auxiliary power source for small, portable electronic devices, based on a Direct Liquid Fuel cell (DLFC). Medis '24/7' Power Pack has multiple connectors to start recharging or continue powering the battery in your device in seconds, giving continuous use – all the way through to a full charge – wherever you are."</i><br /><br /> <img src="http://www.pocketpcthoughts.com/images/web/2003/ekkie_medis_24_7_powerpack_200702.jpg" /> <br /><br />We've been hearing sporadic news regarding fuel cell technology. The fact that its not rechargeable probably has a lot of us wondering about its true value proposition to the consumer. You'll want to visit the provided link to understand the commotion. Basically, compared to traditional battery technology, fuel cells are supposedly much more cost effective, last much longer, and are far more environentally-safe. There's no word yet on pricing and availability, though they were recently spotted at last month's CES.

[Tilyou]

I can understand why you'd want to report about possible new products spotted at CES, but I've been following Medis for over 4 years now, and I predict you'll never see a fuel cell or ANY product from Medis. To understand why, you need to know a bit about its strange and dodgy "now you don't see it, and later you still don't see it" history.

Medis has promised a fuel cell every year since at least 2001 (as well as a crazy variety of other products) and delivered NOTHING; during 2006 it claimed it was promoting its fuel cell by distributing samples by no one was allowed to take one home or independently test one -- and Merriman Currran (which originally had Medis at "BUY") demoted the stock to sell.

There isn't even a specifcation sheet for the current incarnation of the Medis fantasy. Last April (in 2006) at the CTIA expo in Las Vegas, Medis handed out what it called a "spec" sheet, but it was a dream sheet -- promising performance for later in 2006, and different performance for 2007. What that really did was concede that Medis had NOTHING real -- and it still has nothing real.

Worse, even if the spec sheet could be taken seriously, the device is pathetic -- ONE year shelf life (compare AA batteries at 5 years minimum) and 3 months after activation (compare AA batteries which still last 5 years whether you start to use them or not -- they don't need activation). In addition, the Medis power pack is huge -- too huge to fit into a pocket -- and that's just as well because its air breathing, so it won't work long in a pocket or any other air constricting area.

There's no data on how long it will take to charge at week 2 or 5 or 15 into its 3 month life, especially during that time it has already charged once. The fact its chemical reactions are ongoing (resulting in its steady deterioration) suggest that it becomes quite useless very early into its life if its useful at all.

The key to understand Medis is not that it's late to market or that its initial product is lame, but that the company is a comedy and a scam. It has promised radical new motors for automobiles and pilotless airplanes, an anticancer vaccine in an advanced stage, "supergreen" AA batteries, conductive polymers 500% better than all previous polymers, and a device called "cellscan" which is a cytometer for helping to treat cancer (among other things) --- among MANY other crazy inventions in unrelated fields (refrigeration, electric motors, bomb detectors, etc.).

Cellscan may be the most revealing story -- for years since around 1993 Medis actually claimed to be selling it, but in 2001 the CEO Lifton and in 2005 the now President Weiss admitted that cellscan NEVER worked, and Medis still doesn't know why -- even the fundamental principles are in doubt. Then just a few weeks ago Medis abandoned all pretense of selling cellscan (actual sales to date to do real work: zero) and abandoned a plan to get FDA approval for it.

How can anyone believe anything Medis claims?

Motors for pilotless planes and superbatteries and cancer cures all from a tiny company of formerly Soviet scientists in Israel, presided over by two 80 year old executives in New York (not even the same continent as the company's claimed operations)?

ha ha !

Very funny, except for the suckers who will get stuck holding the bag!

Til

PS I have no interest in Medis, long or short. I just don't like scams, and if I liked scams I still wouldn't like Medis.

PSS Herb Greenberg's funny story about trying to see a Medis Power Pack
http://www.marketwatch.com/News/Story/Story.aspx?guid=%7B3906195D%2D4593%2D4FF2%2D8DB7%2D5083E7DFF59F%7D&amp;source=blq%2Fyhoo&amp;dist=yhoo&amp;siteid=yhoo

There's also a GREAT article in an August 2004 issue of Barrons Magazine

See also Merriman Curran's reasons in Fall 2006 for downgrading Medis to sell
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REALITY: NO PRODUCTS, NOTHING TO SELL: SINCE 199@
== A PARTIAL LIST!! ========================
FUEL CELL -- SAGEM DEAL
February 2001
The Agreement establishes specific program and technical milestones for the
joint development effort with a goal of having a power pack product ready to
market by the end of 2002.

CANCER DETECTION AND SURGERY TOOL
http://www.uscj.org/seabd/arlingaf/iijul96.htm
MEDIS EL [Giza Investment Letter, June 1996]
Medis El (NASDAQ:MDSLF), a small maker of cancer diagnostic equipment [made significant] product announcements relating to detection of prostate cancer, individualized chemotherapeutic treatment of cancer and detection of rheumatoid arthritis. The company also announced that it had filed for patents for a new compressor to create extreme cold for use in cryosurgery and possibly for removing facial growth.

SUPERGREEN BATTERY
http://www.stockhouse.ca/shfn/sep00/091100ca_fuel_cell_medis.asp
September 2000
The Battery also utilizes the DLM fuel cell technology and is expected to last twice as long as current long-life AA batteries... As far as a commercialization date for its products, Lifton sees building a plant in Israel to manufacture the fuel cells in 2001 with delivery of product in 2002.

CONDUCTIVE POLYMER FACTORY
That June 2001 letter from MDTL is the one that also promises:
we are on course in our plans to manufacture and market highly electrically conductive polymers. We expect our pilot plant to reach operational readiness in October of this year and to be producing and selling polymers starting at the end of this year.

MAGIC MOTORS IN MORE THAN ONE SIZE! GOSH!
(taken from MDTL webpage before I got MDTL to shut it down)
Toroidal Engine Medis' toroidal engine is a donut-shaped internal combustion engine... expected to be 30-50% more efficient than existing internal combustion engines found in today's automobiles, as well as cheaper to manufacture. Offering 50-80 miles per gallon for auto use, it is expected to be the revolutionary engine replacement
for automobiles, boats, or power generators. Medis believes that the patented engine will be more energy efficient than existing diesel engines... A smaller version, adapted for motorbikes, scooters, lawn mowers and other small engine-powered products and is planned to be introduced in the end of the first quarter of 2001. Development has started on a prototype 75-100 horsepower engine, enough to