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Originally Posted by Itse
That's true. However, this is not your typical Fox News -type hype over some garage genius. Just look at the list of people involved, those are some genuine top experts in the field, including major industrial players.
I'm pretty sure they've got large parts of the technology down. Of course that doesn't mean it's going to be all it's promised to be (almost certainly not, because real life is always surpisingly complicated), and it doesn't mean they will get the final technical problems solved to make this a viable technology, but I'm relatively comfortable thinking that this isn't "bunk", meaning "there's no way this is going to work".
Also, there's also a lot of technologies that people were sceptical about but a few years later they're so commonplace nobody even remembers that. For example there was still a lot of scepticism towards touchscreens a decade ago.
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Media glorifies new findings prematurely way too often. Certainly some turn out, but not nearly as well as when they're first picked up in the news. I see a lot of this in the human and exercise physiology field, and a lot of big conclusions from studies that don't warrant them.
It bothers me how much people are misinformed just to get some readers/viewers.