Tagged: kickstarter

May 12, 2013 @ 11:10 am By HeraldScotland  |  

IT was once a case of hoping for a sympathetic bank manager to back the next big idea. Now everyone from scientists to artists is turning to crowdfunding – appealing on the internet for ordinary people to back their dream project with cash. One of… Read More

May 12, 2013 @ 9:45 am By Arkansas Business  |  

The Internet is profoundly democratic, lowercase “d.” Anyone with computer access can publish a book, hawk his collection of vintage duck decoys, provide advice on holistic healing. Crowdfunding, enabled by the Internet, promises as profound a shift: Anyone can become a venture capitalist and anyone… Read More

May 12, 2013 @ 9:40 am By The Economist  |  

WILL future historians ever understand how dull and pointless life was in the 21st century? Yes, if a new wearable camera catches on. Memoto, a Swedish start-up, is selling a stamp-sized camera that you can pin on your shirt (see picture). It takes photographs every… Read More

May 11, 2013 @ 11:26 am By Slashgear  |  

Carmageddon for Android has been released, hitting phones and tablets today having raised more than $625,000 in a Kickstarter campaign last year. The classic game – which requires players drive roughshod across the tracks, mowing down pedestrians and colliding with fellow drivers as they go – was a notorious… Read More

May 11, 2013 @ 11:24 am By Huffington Post  |  

You may have heard of Kickstarter — the darling crowdfunding site where artists, designers, moviemakers, and others pitch pet projects to an online funder audience. Kickstarter may have just taken on a new and unwelcome role — as the one-stop shop for risky biotech companies looking to… Read More

May 10, 2013 @ 2:21 pm By FoxBusiness  |  

Young entrepreneurs, scientists and activists are flocking to crowdfunding sites, from a group of 12-year-old girls photographing Earth from space to an award-winning iPhone case designer. Michael Conway, who created the fundraising page on website GoFundMe.com, says he and his classmates at the University of… Read More

May 10, 2013 @ 10:05 am By Charles Luzar  |  

The Othermill is a product of Otherfab, an engineering group based in San Francisco. The Othermill aims to bring high-precision milling to home offices much the same way consumer 3D printers have done so for 3D printing. Milling is the “opposite” of printing in that… Read More

May 10, 2013 @ 9:47 am By BostInno  |  

For the first time in 15 years, Boston’s Labor Day weekend celebrations could get an extra boost of light. Nearly two dozen local nonprofits and public agencies have banded together to bring fireworks to the Boston Harbor on Labor Day weekend, Saturday, August 31, 2013…. Read More

May 10, 2013 @ 9:06 am By MIT Technology Review  |  

Software developer Federico Zannier has data-mined himself, and now he’s raising money on Kickstarter to build an iPhone app and Chrome browser extension so that others can easily do the same. Fork over $2 to the campaign and you get a day’s worth of the 1.5 gigabytes… Read More

May 10, 2013 @ 9:02 am By Turnstyle  |  

There has been a lot, and I mean a LOT of digital ink spilled on the issue of “who Kickstarter is for” in the past few weeks. Ever since actor-director Zack Braff turned to the crowdfunding site looking to fund his followup to the indie hit Garden State…. Read More

May 9, 2013 @ 9:30 pm By Charles Luzar  |  

Today Kickstarter co-founders Perry Chen, Yancey Strickler and Charles Adler took to the Kickstarter blog to answer criticism regarding recent high-profile campaigns launched by relative celebrities. In case you missed the backlash, here are some reference points: Today in “Should Celebrities Use Kickstarter?” Internet Reacts… Read More

May 9, 2013 @ 4:26 pm By Charles Luzar  |  

First person shooters like Call of Duty are some of the most popular video games around, and the DELTA SIX controller currently on Kickstarter aims to make the experiences of these games even more immersive and realistic than they are today. From the campaign page…… Read More

May 9, 2013 @ 2:40 pm By Charles Luzar  |  

The video demo of “Road Redemption” on the Oculus Rift VR headset is mind-blowing. Remember Road Rash? It was a series of video games in the 90’s that had players fighting eachother while riding motorcycles. It was not only popular but also a lot of fun…. Read More

May 9, 2013 @ 6:00 am By JD Alois  |  

Kickstarter darling raised over $8 Million crowdfunding, now they are raising more funds in a new funding round lead by Venture Capital legend Kleiner Perkins including the Mayfield Fund, NVIDIA, Shasta Ventures and Occam Partners Video game startup OUYA today announced $15 million in new… Read More

May 8, 2013 @ 3:45 pm By Charles Luzar  |  

Zach Braff took an opportunity to address his critics and wax poetic on the larger crowdfunding space during a 17 minute interview with the team behind Kickstarted. Kickstarted is a documentary on crowdfunding currently being prepared for a Kickstarter campaign itself. Of note is Braff’s… Read More

May 8, 2013 @ 2:00 pm By JD Alois  |  

UPDATE: The campaign is live, but not on Kickstarter. Click here to find out where… Rob Rhinehart’s Soylent Kickstarter campaign may not happen at all.  A recent update on Rhinehart’s blog indicates he is presently considering other options besides industry leading crowdfunding site Kickstarter. Rhinehart’s… Read More

May 8, 2013 @ 10:12 am By Charles Luzar  |  

What if we used trees to light our streets instead of electric street lamps? The first sentence in the video pitch should give some idea as to the ambition of the crowdfunding campaign for bioluminescent plants. The Kickstarter campaign has crossed a quarter of a… Read More

May 8, 2013 @ 8:44 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Yesterday Dominic Green and William Wei of Business Insider posted a video of the BI team meandering around New York City asking people whether they knew what Kickstarter was. The responses are really interesting and present an ironic microcosm of the entire narrative surrounding the… Read More

May 7, 2013 @ 4:17 pm By Charles Luzar  |  

Take a versatile wi-fi hotspot, build it to withstand everything the outdoors could toss at it and give it enough backup power to withstand a minor blackout. You’d be holding a BRCK. The BRCK works much the way your cell phone does, by intelligently and… Read More

May 7, 2013 @ 3:46 pm By Wired  |  

Kickstarter is doing well. Project creators have launched 38,000 successful undertakings for $441 million in pledges since its launch four years ago. And it’s only expected to grow. So it’s no wonder that crowdfunding clones, imitators, and innovators are popping up like weeds. From the… Read More