Tagged: kickstarter

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 26, 2013 @ 10:36 am By JD Alois  |  

Night vision device for you smartphone “Snooperscope” had a Merry Christmas yesterday closing at £79,686 crowdfunded on Kickstarter on a goal of £40,000.  Crowdfund Insider originally covered Snooperscope earlier this month as they neared their funding objective. London based PSY Corporation had also launched a… Read More

December 24, 2013 @ 12:24 pm By Charles Luzar  |  

A project on Kickstarter has currently raised over $50,000 on a goal of just $5,000 with over three weeks left to go. I’m left wondering where this was during my childhood. It’s a rubber band machine gun and it looks awesome. Project creator Alex Shpetniy posted… Read More

December 24, 2013 @ 12:00 pm By JD Alois  |  

Bigger does not always mean better but we all find high profile, big money crowdfunding campaigns interesting and of note.  They may act as a barometer for new products, or services, and can distill future industry trends. The top rewards campaign for 2013, the Veronica… Read More

December 24, 2013 @ 11:20 am By John Scaletta, Motion Source  |  

In November of 2013 my company, Motion Source Video Production, ran a Kickstarter campaign for a shoulder rig for video cameras. The campaign was very successful, with final totals leaving us at 376% funded beyond our original funding goal. In preparation for the campaign my… Read More

December 23, 2013 @ 11:55 am By JD Alois  |  

Deep Web: The Untold Story of Bitcoin and The Silk Road closed this past weekend and the crowdfunding film made goal during the final hours of the campaign.  Alex Winter, the project creator, is a well known actor, director who may be best known for… Read More

December 23, 2013 @ 9:30 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Is your Kickstarter taking off? Are you worried about having too many backers to answer to and too many rewards to ship? Wish Kickstarter had the option to set a funding maximum? They do… kind of. It isn’t an explicit feature of the platform, but… Read More

December 22, 2013 @ 9:43 pm By JD Alois  |  

For many reasons crowdfunding smartwatches has been a hot crowdfunding category for 2012 – 2013.  Wearable technology is going to be huge and everyone knows it.  While Samsung has released their Galaxy Watch to much fanfare, the Samsung smartwatch was widely panned by the technorati…. Read More

December 22, 2013 @ 6:33 pm By JD Alois  |  

The Neptune Pine “all in one smart watch” closed on Kickstarter yesterday having raised an astounding $801,224 from 2839 backers.  In the halls of crowdfunding fame this places Neptune Pine in the top 100 but no where close to the poster child of crowdfunding, another… 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 20, 2013 @ 9:03 am By JD Alois  |  

Aurora dream enhancing headband which was just recently launched on Kickstarter received some local coverage from a San Diego ABC affiliate.  The crowdfunding campaign launched on December 12th is closing in on their $90,000 goal with more than a month to to.  The “lucid dreamer”… Read More

December 19, 2013 @ 10:01 am By Charles Luzar  |  

6This could be big. Oculus VR launched the Oculus Rift on Kickstarter and went on to grab almost $2.5 million in funding. Some are saying that Avegant’s upcoming Glyph headset could surpass it. After watching the following hands-on video from Engadget, we can see why…… Read More

December 19, 2013 @ 9:25 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Kickstarter has rolled out a new advanced search feature that stands to make it much easier to find projects on the platform. This revelation was shared in a recent blog post from Kickstarter’s Michael McGregor. Today we’re excited to make a major change in the… Read More

December 19, 2013 @ 9:15 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Congratulations are in order for Zach Braff and the team behind his Kickstarter-funded film Wish I Was Here. The film will premiere at 2014’s Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah. The festival is slated to take place between January 16-26, 2014. It isn’t the only… 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 @ 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

December 16, 2013 @ 12:06 pm By Charles Luzar  |  

Gamers wishing they backed the Kickstarter campaign for Wasteland 2 can rejoice. The game is now available to everyone via Steam Early Access. inXile Entertainment’s post-apocalyptic RPG raised just short of $3 million in a Kickstarter-powered funding effort that ended on April 17 of 2012…. Read More

December 14, 2013 @ 12:27 pm By Charles Luzar  |  

We recently reported on tabletop gaming being a huge segment of successful Kickstarter raises. It seems the trend continues. A Mega Man board game in development by Lubbock, Texas-based Jasco Games is crowdfunding on Kickstarter now, and the campaign quickly met a $70,000 goal. It… Read More

December 14, 2013 @ 12:25 pm By JD Alois  |  

A Statue of iconic scientist Nikola Tesla was crowdfunding on Kickstarter this past summer.  The campaign closed having raised $127,260 on a goal of $123,000 with support from 722 backers. Tesla was a visionary inventor who made countless discoveries and made significant contributions to AC… Read More

December 13, 2013 @ 10:31 am By Charles Luzar  |  

The team behind the forthcoming, Kickstarter-backed video game Mighty No. 9 wanted to hire a community manager to increase communication between themselves and their backers. Seems to be a simple proposition, right? It just went nuclear. It all comes down to who the team picked to… Read More