Items tagged with crowd-funding
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Aaron Leong - Thu, Jun 26, 2025
For a segment of smartphone users who fondly remember (and secretly crave) the tactile satisfaction of a physical keyboard, look no further than the Unihertz Titan 2, a device that proudly resurrects the iconic form factor of the...
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Paul Lilly - Fri, Jul 12, 2024
We've seen a million and one NUCs and NUC-like mini PCs over the past several years (including the first-ever ROG NUC that ASUS recently announced), but never one with a built-in touchscreen display. Until now, that is—a company called...
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Nathan Ord - Wed, Feb 17, 2021
We would not have expected Amazon of all companies to take to crowdfunding, but here we are. The Seattle-based eCommerce, cloud, and internet of things company, among other divisions, has developed something called the “Build It” program...
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Shane McGlaun - Sun, Jul 28, 2019
It's summertime in many parts of the world, and many people are left looking for ways to stay cool. In some places that means on certain days, you can't spend too much time outside. However, Sony has a new product that it is crowdfunding...
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Paul Lilly - Wed, Apr 06, 2016
For the time being, gamers who've pledged their allegiance to the PC (or simply prefer it) will have to rock out to Rock Band 4 with their game consoles out. Harmonix wasn't able to raise its goal of $1.5 million—or even come close...
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Paul Lilly - Tue, Mar 29, 2016
For human beings and the vast majority of living organisms, oxygen is a good thing. The same can't be said for wine, the delicious, intoxicating nectar that begins degrading in quality the moment you pop the cork. That's a real problem if...
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Paul Lilly - Thu, Nov 05, 2015
Crowdfunding giant Kickstarter has been around since 2009. In that time, it's raised more than $2 billion in pledges from 9.5 million people, having crossed the threshold last month on October 11. To celebrate the occasion, Kickstarter...
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Paul Lilly - Tue, Aug 04, 2015
I was really looking forward to Matchstick, the first HDMI streaming dongle based on Mozilla's open source Firefox OS. Unfortunately, its developers are putting the word out that they're cancelling the successfully funded Kickstarter...
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Paul Lilly - Tue, Jun 16, 2015
To quote Japanese game designer and producer Yu Suzuki, creator of the Shenmue series that last saw a title update 14 years ago, "The fate of Shenmue is in your hands now." Originally he might have been talking about whether or not Shenmue...
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Paul Lilly - Fri, Jun 12, 2015
The Federal Trade Commission has left its stamp on the crowdfunding scene by taking legal action against Erik Chevalier, the Kickstarter project creator who raised more than $122,000 funds from 1,246 backers to produce a board game called The Doom That Came to Atlantic City. In the end, it was...
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Paul Lilly - Sat, Mar 28, 2015
The most successfully funded campaign in the history of Kickstarter (in terms of amount raised) belongs to a smartwatch. That was true a few weeks ago when the Pebble Time smartwatch raised over $17 million from more than 67,000 backers...
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Paul Lilly - Fri, Mar 13, 2015
Mmm, pancakes! The love of pancakes is nearly as ubiquitous as the affection for bacon, which incidentally go great together. It also helps that making pancakes is pretty easy, unless you try to get fancy with artistic creations that go...
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Paul Lilly - Fri, Feb 20, 2015
Records are meant to be broken, but who would have though a card game called "Exploding Kittens" would be the one to dethrone Ouya as the most funded project Kickstarter has ever seen? Well, it happened, with Exploding Kittens erupting to...
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Sean Knight - Fri, Nov 28, 2014
Despite the tablet market being oversaturated, the Jolla tablet has gained quite a bit of attention. Built around the open source Sailfish OS, the Jolla Tablet’s Indiegogo campaign had a goal of $380,000 that was quickly reached. But since...
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Paul Lilly - Tue, May 27, 2014
We've reluctantly come to accept that we may never see a hoverboard like the ones featured in Back to the Future II. And if they do ever come out, we'll probably be too old to care by that point -- hip replacements aren't cheap or fun...
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Paul Lilly - Tue, May 20, 2014
If you thought it was tough reading through a Shakespeare play back in high school, imagine if he was alive today and you had to explain the terms currently in use, such as "selfie" and "hashtag." The former might not be so difficult...
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Seth Colaner - Mon, Mar 03, 2014
Just how popular is Kickstarter’s crowdfunding site? Or perhaps a better question is how important is Kickstarter to those raising funds for grassroots projects? The answer can be found in this stat that the company announced today:...
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Seth Colaner - Fri, Sep 13, 2013
If you’ve read this site even casually lately, you know that crowdfunding is here in force. Sites like Kickstarter and Indiegogo offer entrepreneurs, startups, and otherwise unfunded techies with a prototype and a dream the chance to engage the world and excite backers to front some...
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Seth Colaner - Fri, Aug 16, 2013
When the Pebble smartwatch hit Kickstarter looking to raise $100,000, nobody could have guessed that it would annihilate crowdfunding records and end up generating $10,266,845 in pledges. It’s far less surprising to see...
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Ray Willington - Fri, Jun 07, 2013
Looking for something new from Logitech? How about something via one of the companies it just acquired? In what can only be seen as a sign that Kickstarter has major staying power, Logitech has just acquired a company that first saw the...
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Ray Willington - Sun, May 05, 2013
Great news for fans of Eternal Darkness; it looks as if the game's spiritual successor 'Shadow of the Eternals' will be a reality -- well, if it can secure a whopping $1.5 million in crowdfunding. As sites like Indiegogo and Kickstarter...
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Seth Colaner - Tue, Feb 12, 2013
A couple of months ago, we covered a story that appeared straightforward enough at first but took an odd turn just a day or so later. When the story first gained traction in the media, it appeared as though Apple had hamstrung a...
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