Tagged: hardware

February 18, 2014 @ 11:30 am By JD Alois  |  

Taiwan based HWTrek has extended their commitment to hardware inventors announcing partnerships with more than 130 (starting with Taiwan’s top-tier) manufacturers, including global Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs) and Original Design Manufacturers (ODMs) including Pegatron, Wistron, Qisda, and WPG Holdings in Asia. The company continues to… Read More

February 14, 2014 @ 7:15 am By JD Alois  |  

Crowdfunding on Kickstarter, Moment “Amazing Lenses for Mobile Photography” closed earlier today having raised $451,868 from 4722 backers.  This is 9 times the initial goal of raising $50,000 to fund the lenses for your mobile phone camera.  The campaign rocketed out of the gate doubling… Read More

February 13, 2014 @ 10:05 am By Charles Luzar  |  

FundersClub has announced the launch of the FundersClub Theme Series, a series of managed funds focused on early-stage companies in specific verticals. The first three funds will focus on health & wellness, Bitcoin & payments and hardware. FundersClub is an invite-only equity crowdfunding play. Just last month the… Read More

February 13, 2014 @ 7:53 am By JD Alois  |  

Fuel 3D Technologies, a developer of 3D scanning solutions, has announced it has secured $2.6 million (£1.6 million) in early stage financing to further the development of its Fuel3D scanner technology. The funding news comes in advance of a planned mezzanine financing round, expected to… Read More

February 12, 2014 @ 9:52 am By JD Alois  |  

The Pocket Drone is your very own personal robot.  I know that someday everyone will have multiple personal robots beyond the roomba but I find it fascinating when consumer products get even closer to this goal.  Airdroids is one of these companies creating these new… Read More

February 10, 2014 @ 9:22 am By JD Alois  |  

Taipei based HWTrek (Hardware Trek) has announced their new consumer electronics community platform aimed to enhance the communication and data exchange between hardware inventors, design and manufacturing experts and financial backers to bring next-generation hardware dreams to market. The new feature enables hardware inventors in the… Read More

January 27, 2014 @ 9:23 pm By JD Alois  |  

Any entrepreneur that can raise $1 million or more through the Dragon Innovation crowdfunding platform will receive an additional $100,000 in the form of a convertible note from the company.  Dragon is a crowdfunding site that targets hardware entrepreneurs.  The company not only crowdfunds but… Read More

January 21, 2014 @ 5:39 pm By JD Alois  |  

Snooperscope “night vision for your iPhone” just closed their crowdfunding campaign on Kickstarter this past December 25, 2013.  The project raised over £79,000 on a £40,000 goal.  Therefore I was a bit surprised to see the campaign pop up on competitor Indiegogo’s platform.  The pretail… Read More

January 15, 2014 @ 11:11 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Edit: two cards to rule them all. Coin aims to be the “one card to rule them all,” a credit-card-sized device that can store info from and act as any credit or debit card in the owner’s wallet. The associated crowdfunding campaign is still active… Read More

January 9, 2014 @ 9:05 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Misfit Wearables CEO Sonny Vu recently spoke at Seattle Pacific University, and as a part of his visit he sat down and was interviewed about his experience in running Misfit Wearables. He shares revelations including the fact that Misfit had VC backing before they launched… Read More

January 7, 2014 @ 11:10 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Popular Mechanics has provided a short list of three upcoming products that will be looking to launch crowdfunding campaigns on Kickstarter in the coming weeks and months… Solar Cool Tech – A solar-powered cooler that will keep food and drinks (and Coronas!) cold at the… Read More

January 7, 2014 @ 10:37 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Lumo BodyTech is a Silicon Valley-based company that specializes in giving people actionable feedback on body position in order to help them improve their lives. They’ve already crowdfunded one product successfully, and today sees the launch of a second  – the Lumo Lift – that… Read More

January 6, 2014 @ 8:51 am By Charles Luzar  |  

The thingCHARGER is currently crowdfunding on Indiegogo and it is on an absolute roll. The device has crossed the half-million dollar threshold with a week left in the campaign. So why is the device doing so well? As with so many hardware items in the… Read More

December 30, 2013 @ 10:45 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Austin-based Vovation.com has launched a new crowdfunding platform with a focus on consumer products. The platform was created by Conley Giles and is billed as “crowdfunding for inventors,” which puts this platform squarely in competition with upstart platforms like HWTrek and Dragon Innovation. Giles explains… Read More

December 26, 2013 @ 12:02 pm By Charles Luzar  |  

We brought you the story of Light Harmonic’s newest crowdfunding campaign on Indiegogo back in November. The campaign aimed to raise $38,000 to bring the Geek Pulse to market. It was the second crowdfunding campaign for Light Harmonic. The company raised over $300,000 on Kickstarter… Read More

December 26, 2013 @ 11:00 am By Charles Luzar  |  

A group of makers from Israel have invented a device that they say solves the ten finger touch UI problem. The Grippity is a tablet with a transparent screen allowing the user to type through the back of the device, and it is currently crowdfunding… Read More

December 20, 2013 @ 10:24 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Kano’s Kickstarter campaign has ended. The small, DIY Raspberry Pi-powered computer raised $1,522,160 from 13,387 backers. The raise was good enough to push the campaign to third on Kickstarter’s all-time list for design products. Kano leaped the Elevation Dock for that spot. It wasn’t quite… Read More

December 18, 2013 @ 10:30 am By Charles Luzar  |  

We recently reported on the Kano project on Kickstarter. Just a couple of weeks ago the campaign was celebrating a huge milestone after crossing $1 million in funding. Quartz recently tipped the world to the fact that even the famed Steve Wozniak has chipped into the… Read More

December 17, 2013 @ 12:00 pm By JD Alois  |  

Wareness.io Will Focus on Crowdfunding Hardware Startups, May also Provide Up to $6 Million in Investment Capital for Entrepreneurs. Vijay Chattha, the founder of Silicon Valley and New York based marketing firm VSC, has announced the launch of Wareness.io, a new studio division of VSC… Read More

December 17, 2013 @ 11:14 am By Charles Luzar  |  

A new Kickstarter campaign aims to make use of unused space in the garage in an effort to help people get organized. The myLIFTER promises to turn your garage ceiling into storage, and it’s almost fully funded with plenty of time left to go. The… Read More