Tagged: iphone

Star Command Is A Great Game, But Also A Kickstarter Warning

For the last few days, I’ve been playing Star Command, a mobile game that’s had people excited for a very long time now. Beginning life as a Kickstarter project, it’s gone through several major delays, and arrives this week on the App Store an example not just of… Read More

Crowdfunding opens doors for entrepreneurs

Like most entrepreneurs, Lester Mapp is a busy man and if you’ve ever heard of an iPhone bumper made of material used in the aerospace industry, you know why. Mapp, of Aventura, developed the AL13, a bumper case for iPhone 5 and 4/4S. “I got… Read More

Handcharge Your Smartphones with SOSCharger

Remember how we were bemoaning the fact that the original SOSCharger didn’t work with smartphones? Well guess what, SOS Ready has heard the pleas of the smartphone owners and have put up a Kickstarter campaign for their newest line of hand-crank smartphone chargers. Not only is this great for… Read More

Everything you need to know about Kickstarter sensation Star Command

Earlier today, we went hands-on with War Balloon Games’s hotly anticipated space sim Star Command. This is the oft-delayed and long-awaited mobile game that’s enjoyed two Kickstarter campaigns and attracted almost $200,000 in crowdfunded cash. It’s kind of a big deal around here, okay. As I explained… Read More

Crowdfunding: iPhoneChina – a film project on Apple and China

(Staff Translation) The film producer Christian von Borries asks the systemic question: „Imagine Apple would be a State – would one prefer to live in Apple or China?“. In a documentary essay film he researches the question whether States are led like businesses or whether… Read More

Amiigo Bracelet Original Crowdfunding Goal $90K leads to $500K Stretch

The Amiigo Fitness bracelet has been covered here on these pages but also in many other news publications.  Hailed wide and far as a crowdfunding success for the tech arena, Amiigo still has 7 days left on their crowdfunding campaign with over $490,000 raised.  The… Read More

Crowdfunded Project Lumawake in Dire Need of $250K

Lumawake, a widely covered crowdfunding project announced in a backers update that their project was in peril due to lack of funds.   The universal Apple iPhone dock was widely hailed as a unique product with revolutionary design and incredible features. Originally the Lumawake team… Read More

Kickstarter’s New Mobile App Feels Like Instagram For A Reason

KICKSTARTER’S NEW APP LOOKS A LOT LIKE INSTAGRAM OR VINE. COINCIDENCE? MORE LIKE “INEVITABILITY.” Compared to a made-for-mobile app like Instagram, Kickstarter is a pretty complicated platform. You don’t just have an image you can like or comment on–you have a whole concept to explain,… Read More

Kickstarter Goes Mobile With New iOS App

It’s Valentine’s Day and what better way for a crowdfunding site to show its love for you than release an iOS app? The new app will go live on iTunes shortly and allows users to follow their funded projects and search for new projects from the comfort… Read More

Distil Union’s Newest Product Turns Your iPhone Into Your Wallet

The folks that brought you the snooze button for your iPhone… … are now crowdfunding a product that turns your iPhone into a wallet. Read more at Cult of Mac Have a crowdfunding offering you’d like to share? Submit an offering for consideration using our… Read More

Dark Sky: From Kickstarter to App Store Success

Back in Oct. 2011, two developers, Adam Grossman and Jack Turner, put a video on Kickstarter with an ambitious goal: help them bring their magical-looking short-term weather prediction app to the public. The app is called Dark Sky [iTunes link], and it’s a weather app with a very cool… Read More

Crowdfunding collective TinyLightbulbs shows off its iOS products

Last year, e-commerce site TinyLightbulbs formed in Denver, focusing on products that are funded via crowdfunding sites such as Kickstarter and Indiegogo. TinyLightbulbs brought five of the products available on its site Macworld/iWorld 2013, including: SlingShot: This smartphone stand received more than US$70,000 in funding on Kickstarter and acts… Read More

Crowdfunding Tech: 3 Cool Crowdfund Items for Your Smartphone

As a gadget / tech lover the advent of crowdfunding has really created a windfall of new devices to covet – for both iOS and Android devices.  I am constantly amazed at the creativity and ingenuity crowdfunding has allowed to bring to the masses and… Read More

Apple Adjusts Lightning Spec Following POP Kickstarter Complaint

As reported in CNet Apple reacted today to news of the imploding Kickstarter campaign by Edison Junior for their POP charger.  Yesterday Jamie Siminoff, CEO of Edison Junior and POP project lead, published a Kickstarter update informing their funders the project was being cancelled and all… Read More

Fully Crowdfunded on Kickstarter; POP by Edison Junior to Return Funds

Fully Crowdfunded project POP by design house Edison Junior achieved their Crowdfunding dreams on September 1st of this year.  The original goal for funding was a $50,000 target – the proceeds of which were to take to market their product POP also known as Portable… Read More

Crowdfunding Gift Guide: iPhone

    For all of those Apple Fanboys and Fangirls out there – now is the time to purchase iPhone stocking stuffers and Apple gifts from the Crowdfund “Santa” to satisfy every Apple geek’s need for gadgets.  I know because I qualify.  If you are anything… Read More