Tag Archives: Kickstarter

Android-powered MiiPC hits Kickstarter – Android Community

Posted by on March 26, 2013

The problem with turning kids loose on the Internet is manyfold for parents. Kids can purposely access content that is inappropriate for their age, and can accidentally access content that is inappropriate. Those facts make it very important for parents …

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Kickstarter for iPhone – PC Magazine

Posted by on February 16, 2013

By Jill Duffy When Kickstarter first debuted in 2009, the site radically transformed individuals’ and small businesses’ ability to get their pet projects off the ground. The site made mainstream the concept of crowd-sourced funding. No more begging venture capitalists …

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$11 million sought to build X-wing, counter Kickstarter Death Star

Posted by on February 11, 2013

A campaign vows to fight the Empire by building an X-wing squad. Also promised: a Millennium Falcon for 13 million Galactic Standard Credits. February 10, 2013 9:45 AM PST (Credit: Lucasfilm) There’s no disturbing lack of faith among Kickstarter supporters. …

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Kickstarter Campaigns Reap $319M in 2012

Posted by on January 9, 2013

Some of the top Kickstarter campaigns of 2012 (clockwise from top right): MaKey MaKey invention kit (Photo: jayahimsa/Flickr), the Pebble watch (Photo: Pebble), the Ouya game console (Photo: Ouya), singer Amanda Palmer’s album (Photo: Ron Nordin) While Kickstarter’s hardware projects …

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Apple kills a Kickstarter project: Portable power project POP refunding $139170 … – VentureBeat

Posted by on December 21, 2012

Edison Junior, the technology and design lab behind the POP portable power station, is returning the full $ 139,170 in funding it received from Kickstarter backers to develop the device. Unfortunately, Apple has refused to give the project permission to …

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Rejected Kickstarter Projects Build Their Own Success Stories

Posted by on December 11, 2012

Misfit Shine seemed like it should be a Kickstarter home run, capitalizing on the fitness tracker trend while simplifying it even further, down to a button-sized, machined-aluminum beacon that syncs to your iPhone. They had already been working on the device for …

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How Two Hardware Geeks Leveraged Kickstarter for Serial Success

Posted by on December 11, 2012

Brad Leong and Sam Gordon with the Brydge keyboard. Photo: Alex Washburn/Wired Brad Leong and Sam Gordon have a 3-0 record for crowdfunding projects, something they’ve done by bringing an app store-like model to platforms like Kickstarter that could herald …

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Kickstarter to users: Backer beware

Posted by on September 7, 2012

Kickstarter says its donors need to weigh the reliability and honesty of the person they are pledging money to. Kickstarter urges users to choose wisely Most funded projects on the site are realized, but some hit complications With site’s growth, …

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An awesome-sounding headphone amplifier Kickstarter project

Posted by on September 2, 2012

Unlike previous Kickstarter audio projects, the budget-priced Sicphones amp is the first the Audiophiliac got to hear before it was a commercial product. September 2, 2012 8:06 AM PDT The Sicphones headphone amplifier (Credit: Steve Guttenberg/CNET) It was just a …

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Youngest Female Olympic Boxer Is Subject of New Kickstarter Doc

Posted by on July 31, 2012

Zackary Canepari and Drea Cooper, the short documentary film duo known as ZCDC behind the California Is a Place project, are in the process of completing their biggest film to date. The film follows Claressa “T-Rex” Shields, a young female …

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