Offerings

June 17, 2013 @ 7:14 pm By JD Alois  |  

It was inevitable with the revelations that NSA Contractor Edward Snowden shared about cyber-spying that anti-spying crowdfunding campaigns would be soon to follow or  crowdfunding campaigns which  already exist – finally percolate to the surface.  While it is hard to believe there is a way… Read More

June 16, 2013 @ 7:56 pm By Charles Luzar  |  

Family and PlayLab are two New York-based design firms that happen to share an office space. The two firms have put their heads together to try and build a crazy pool that will float in the Hudson river, clean the river water and allow New… Read More

June 16, 2013 @ 7:32 pm By Charles Luzar  |  

Daniel Haarburger is a junior at the Institute of Design at Stanford University, and he already has one successful Kickstarter campaign under his belt. Now his second is fully funded. The WINGStand was his first project, and it is both insanely simple and extremely useful…. Read More

June 16, 2013 @ 7:16 pm By Charles Luzar  |  

DropShades are currently crowdfunding on Kickstarter. The shutter-style sunglasses were designed to react to the music playing around them. The campaign page explains… DropShades are the world’s best audio responsive party glasses that “dance” to the beat of the music. Using a tiny microphone connected… Read More

June 16, 2013 @ 3:29 pm By JD Alois  |  

Loog Guitar was crowdfunded on Kickstarter back in 2011 – raising a total amount of $65,618 on a goal of $15,000.  The premise was simple:  a three stringed guitar which was easy to handle and simple to learn, teaching the joy of playing a guitar… Read More

June 16, 2013 @ 1:51 pm By Charles Luzar  |  

The X-Cube is the spiritual successor to the Rubik’s Cube, and the project has met its $30,000 funding goal with about three weeks left to go in the campaign. The project was launched by Illinois Institute of Technology student Dane Christianson, who launched Moving Parts… Read More

June 16, 2013 @ 1:28 pm By Charles Luzar  |  

We recently reported on a Microryza campaign that aimed to study the effect of gun culture on public safety… Bisakha Sen, an associate professor at The University of Alabama at Birmingham, has launched a campaign on Microryza to fund her research into the effect of… Read More

June 16, 2013 @ 11:00 am By JD Alois  |  

Leaders from six Sioux Indian Tribes, along with former President Bill Clinton, recently announced a new wind power initiative in South Dakota.   This was announced during the  Clinton Global Initiative America (CGI America) meeting — an annual event that brings together leaders from the business,… Read More

June 16, 2013 @ 9:00 am By JD Alois  |  

Exo Labs, creator of the Focus Microscope Camera, recently launched a Kickstarter campaign to raise $29,000 to fund their Focus Microscope Camera.  As explained on the campaign page these funds would be used to; … ignite curiosity in the next generation of scientists.  We hope… Read More

June 14, 2013 @ 3:35 pm By Charles Luzar  |  

The team behind the crowdfunding campaign for the Kickstarted documentary may have helped catch the largest Kickstarter fraud in history just in the nick of time, and literally quite by accident. Correction: Maybe not THE largest… The team explains in a recent blog post… A… Read More

June 14, 2013 @ 1:13 pm By Charles Luzar  |  

A campaign currently accepting funding on Kickstarter is preselling a kit that allows anyone to experiment with neuroscience on live cockroaches. The RoboRoach project by Backyard Brains includes a small PCB that the user then physically attaches to a cockroach to create what they are… Read More

June 13, 2013 @ 7:33 pm By JD Alois  |  

It was previously reported the Shadows of the Eternals had canceled their crowdfunding campaign on Kickstarter.  The campaign had been halted standing at $128,000 raised on a goal of $1.35 Million.  The original end date was to be the 19th of June. Now there are… Read More

June 13, 2013 @ 9:44 am By JD Alois  |  

Food replacement mix Soylent has announced international shipping dates for their crowdfunded product.  Recently Soylent announced stretch goals as they surpassed a half a million dollars raised on a campaign goal of only $100,000. With 9 days remaining the crowdfunding campaign rejected by Kickstarter but accepted by Crowdhoster has become… Read More

June 12, 2013 @ 9:58 am By Charles Luzar  |  

There are a couple of nice perks that come along with covering the crowdfunding space in depth. One perk is that we constantly find ourselves stumbling upon crazy tech that seems a generation or two ahead of its time. A second perk is that it… Read More

June 12, 2013 @ 8:58 am By Charles Luzar  |  

James Stumpf took to Kickstarter back in 2011 to try and raise funds for a slick wireless keyboard. It started out as a great crowdfunding story. $67,500 raised from 638 backers in a month and a half. Measuring in at only 9.8mm thick, Levitatr™ is… Read More

June 11, 2013 @ 3:35 pm By JD Alois  |  

With 19 Days left on the counter, ARKYD – the Space Telescope for Everyone , is still shy of their initial $1 Million goal standing at over $850,000 raised by over 9500 supporters.  As part of their push to crowdfund the telescope, the campaign organizers… Read More

June 11, 2013 @ 10:27 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Two PhD candidates from UCLA have a campaign on Kickstarter seeking $75,000 to bring the Spinpod to market. The Spinpod promises to help users capture high-quality panoramic images and time-lapse video easily with their smartphones and full cameras. “Our goal was to develop a device that… Read More

June 11, 2013 @ 8:12 am By ArcticStartUp  |  

Before Martin Borgs joined the crowdfunding scene, the largest amount raised for a Swedish film was 393,646 SEK (€45,000) in a month. On FundedByMe, the largest amount raised for any project on the “classic crowfunding” site was 257,914 SEK. Borgs made more than that in… Read More

June 11, 2013 @ 7:00 am By Polygon  |  

Chris Roberts is feeling good. He has persuaded over 150,000 people to kick-in $10 million for a product that doesn’t exist and won’t be completed until the end of 2014. But it’s not the pile of cash that’s lighting him up, not even the opportunity… Read More

June 11, 2013 @ 6:23 am By JD Alois  |  

“The Institute for Conscious Global Change” (ICGC), a non-profit organization run 100% by volunteers, has entered the second half of their crowdfunding  Rockethub Campaign.  The organization needs your help now.  ICGC is aiming to raise just $2600 for their annual “Geographic Information System” (GIS) server… Read More