Articles tagged "kickstarter"

SubPac is a pad that transfers low music frequencies into physical vibrations, bringing the club experience of a bass show into the privacy of home

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If the LIFX meets expectations, it could be the best light bulb ever built. The app-controlled wunderbulb that received an avalanche of Kickstarter support — 13 times its initial goal of $100,000 — is now slated to make its debut in March 2013.

Yeah, we're about I'd say, 60% done with the new movie. You do your best to try to budget a documentary. But you zig and zag so much because, if you're doing a good job, you're not on script – (laughs) there really is no script.

The idea of a single, high speed elevator that could blast astronauts from Earth to the surface of the moon with the flip of a switch is the stuff of cheesy Fifties science fiction novels. At least it was until former NASA researcher Michael Laine an…

Yesterday we all learned "about Offbeatr":http://motherboard.vice.com/2012/8/9/the-future-is-bright-for-offbeatr-the-kickstarter-for-porn, the new, Kickstarter-inspired site dedicated to crowd funding of pornography. At its core, the site represents

The thing about Kickstarter, I've always though, is that it's just not that edgy. Sure, hackable game consoles and …

Up until now, multi-billion dollar electronics companies like Nintendo, Sony and Microsoft have dominated the video game industry. With the help of hundred-person video game studios and massive marketing campaigns, they've been consistently successfu…

I’m really hoping to be dead and rotting by the time humanity gets sucked into the matrix. I can faintly hear the sound of ad men and bureaucrats salivating waterfalls over technology that can mind-read your dreams and contact lenses that “double as…

_By Eric Moneypenny_ On March 15, 2012, I signed up for an account with Kickstarter. My dream was simple. I wanted to start a Kickstarter to buy Kickstarter. I assumed starting a Kickstarter would be easy. After all, Colin Hanks "Kickstarted a

If you spend any decent amount of time talking with videogame developers, it won't be long before you hear the age-old conundrum: There is an incredible surplus of great ideas and an unfortunate shortage of publishers willing to fund them. But for Ti…

Look back at any period of rapid technological progress and you'll find two groups of individuals: Pioneers tirelessly charting new territory for the benefit of the species and members of the old order standing against the tide to fight back the phan…

If I'm getting e-mails from your publicist about your Kickstater campaign to fund your new album, you should not be using Kickstarter. This is a thing that happens and you have no idea how big of an entitled asshole it makes you seem. Does tha…

The three guys from "MemeFactory":http://www.whatweknowsofar.com/memefactory/, a live performance about web culture, want to write a book about the Internet, and they've made a "Kickstarter page":http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/rugnetta/memefacto…