A little digging later...
Dug up this article about Steorn from the sunday business post archive
full article here:
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Here are some of the eyebrow raising snippits that may be worth following..
Sunday, May 21, 2006 - By Gavin Daly
Sean McCarthy, the cofounder and chief executive of Steorn, said the firm’s products were based on the same principle as kinetic energy generators in watches. The products should be ready by the summer of 2007.
He set up Steorn with consultant Mike Daly, Shaun Menzies of internet firm Zartis, and Francis Hackett, the managing partner of O’Donnell Sweeney solicitors in Dublin.
Steorn worked on some of the biggest internet projects in Ireland, including Fyffes’ Worldoffruit.com portal, but had to restructure after the boom ended.
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Misdirection to conceal the true nature of the product or mumbo-jumbo to hoodwink the gullable?
Shaking my cell-phone to charge the battery holds no appeal ,let alone an automobile lol . I've owned a faraday coil flashlight and getting that charged was a pain.