Like a superhero, one social worker turned inventor has come to every woman’s rescue with a unique purse that will also double as a charger for your cellphone. Chicago Tribune has more about this unique invention: Smartphone owners have plenty of on-the-go charging options, from USB sticks to solar-powered backpacks. But Liz Salcedo wanted an […]
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On November 30, Memoto closed a month-long Kickstarter campaign that raised $550,000 to manufacture a lifelogging wearable camera. Co-founder, Oskar Kalmaru, has written an insightful look at the wildly successful Kickstarter campaign.
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Mail Online: Now the Etch-a-Sketch, that beloved toy which started life in the 1960s and amused children for the next three decades, is coming back – thanks to the help of the iPad. Inventor Ari Krupnik has created an almost exact replica sleeve of the Etch-a-Sketch, including those two big twiddly buttons with which you
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Decantur Daily: The Ink Dial addresses what Chouinard said is a common frustration in printing. Jars of colored ink can be expensive, averaging around $75, he said, and owning all the available colors can cost hundreds of thousands of dollars. Instead, most printers mix colors according to a sort of universal “recipe book.†The Ink
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NY Times: So what kind of “creative projects” does Kickstarter enable? Well, a couple of artists raised $2,181 to send funny handwritten letters to every household in Pittsburgh’s Polish Hill neighborhood; someone pulled in $8,441 to help finance the creation of “a searchable ethnographic database built from the lyrics of over 40,000 hip-hop songs”; a
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Like a superhero, one social worker turned inventor has come to every woman’s rescue with a unique purse that will also double as a charger for your cellphone. Chicago Tribune has more about this unique invention: Smartphone owners have plenty of on-the-go charging options, from USB sticks to solar-powered backpacks. But Liz Salcedo wanted an
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David Alden is a Kickstarter success. He used to the website Kickstarter to fund his business and to take it from just an idea to tens of thousands of unit sales. Recoil, a plastic device similar to a fishing reel for wires, provides an easy solution to tidy up offices, entertainment centers or the ear
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On November 30, Memoto closed a month-long Kickstarter campaign that raised $550,000 to manufacture a lifelogging wearable camera. Co-founder, Oskar Kalmaru, has written an insightful look at the wildly successful Kickstarter campaign.
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Klymit, the Utah company known for creating NobleTekâ„¢ argon gas insulation for outdoor gear and apparel, has launched a Kickstarter project as a potential funding source for the production of the Klymit Ulaar Jacket. The campaign went live on the Kickstarter website on October 11, 2012 and will run until November 9, 2012. During that
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Red Orbit: The concept for the eyeCLICK remote control device came to Wu after listening to an Apple keynote address, when the company announced the iPhone had become the most used camera in the world. “I knew that the convenience of your phone always being with you would outweigh the chances of bringing a real
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