Tagged: kickstarter

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 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 @ 11:20 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Rob Thomas changed crowdfunding forever with his campaign for Veronica Mars, legitimizing the funding method as a way for successful folks to circumvent the powers-that-be. The crowd can now greenlight creative products by sheer power in numbers. Gatekeepers? That’s so 2010. Zach Braff took this… 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 @ 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 10, 2013 @ 12:17 pm By JD Alois  |  

Until just recently, the category crowdfunded films and video held the crown of the most popular projects on Kickstarter but now crowdfunding games has usurped this position.  From the Kickstarter stats page games stand as follows: Games Category: Total projects 5,584 Total Dollars $144.21 Million… Read More

June 10, 2013 @ 10:43 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Richard Bliss is a successful Kickstarter alumnus, having launched three successful Kickstarter projects in the past. He consulted on a handful of other successful projects. He’s a crowdfunding expert, speaker and the producer of two series everyone in the space should know about. Bliss’s viewpoint… Read More

June 10, 2013 @ 8:30 am By MCVUK  |  

The PS4 and Xbox One will be showcased at E3 after years and years of R&D. By contrast, in three weeks the Android-based Ouya console finally goes on sale to the public – a year ago it didn’t even exist. Propelled by record-breaking crowdfunding, it… Read More

June 9, 2013 @ 12:49 pm By Charles Luzar  |  

Anton Volney recently posted three interviews with three different Kickstarter project creators. The interviews covered the ethos behind each of the three products as well as some of the strategies employed to find success. All three of the interviews were posted at SucceedInYourPajamas.com, a site… Read More

June 8, 2013 @ 10:31 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Two design students at Chicago’s IIT Institute of Design had to come up with an original product for a class project. They then had to try to crowdfund the project on Kickstarter. Fast forward a little over a year and that very product has now… Read More

June 8, 2013 @ 9:55 am By Minneapolis-St. Paul Business Journal  |  

When Spark Devices CEO Zach Supalla launched the company’s first Kickstarter crowdfunding round in November, the campaign failed. Fundraising fell $120,000 short of the startup’s $250,000 goal. About five months later — with a new, simpler product — the Minneapolis-based company began a second round of fundraising,… Read More