Crowdfunding

Canon is crowdfunding a 13MP ‘clippable’ camera on Indiegogo

Canon is making a portable little camera called the Canon IVY REC through crowdfunding website Indiegogo, DP Review discovered on Tuesday. Though the company’s…

Beautifully bizarre platformer Anew: The Distant Light launches on Kickstarter

It’s 4:01 pm and I’m about to hit the off switch on my work day when I receive an email. It’s from a man…

Screen protection company raises $100k for product that already exists

ProtectPax, a German company advertising the “World’s Best Invisible Smartphone Protection” has raised US$100 000 and counting on its Indiegogo campaign. The company’s product…

Dark Souls board game smashes Kickstarter goal, raises over £3.7-mllion [update]

Update, 17 May 2016: The project concluded on 16 May with over £3.7-million (R83-million) in funding. Update, 6 May 2016: The game has reached…

Nativ wants to make music a visual experience for audiophiles

This is a strange opening sentence, but bear with me: music is becoming ever more visual the deeper we sink our lives in the…

Paralo PLAY: a virtual reality headset compatible with 30+ phones

We’ve seen virtual reality come into its own in the latter half of last year. Although Oculus has become one of the stalwarts of…

Shenmue 3 funding closes on $6.3-million in new Kickstarter record

When the first Shenmue game released back in 1999, there was no concept of crowdfunding, let alone any structures in place. Nearly 16 years…

Another fabulous day in Wellington Wells: ‘We Happy Few’ launches on Kickstarter

Last week Canadian-based indie developer, Compulsion Games, launched its Kickstarter campaign for We Happy Few, a pleasingly twisted horror survival game set in a…

LoveLinkU is the prettier side of Kickstarter’s internet of things revolution

Today, the internet of things is very much a fad but tomorrow, it might be the next step in humankind’s insatiable need to control…

Autonomous, flying selfies are here thanks to Lily Throw and Shoot camera

Lily is a new start-up company that hails from Menlo Park, California. With its new and innovative throw-and-shoot flying drone camera (simply named “Lily”…

Flexible smartphone mount GEKKOPOD funded in 12 hours on Kickstarter

It’s always difficult finding a decent mount for your camera or smartphone. Most of the packed-in ones aren’t worth the plastic they’re made from…

‘Crysis: Analogue Edition’ board game now on Kickstarter

A popular trend over the years is converting popular video games into board games. Some of the more notable properties are Gears of War,…

Kickstarter Cubit lets makers build to their imagination’s content

Crowdfunding and the Maker Movement go hand in hand, and there have been a number of projects riding on the coattails of this new…

Toast marshmallows to death metal with these pyro-crafted speakers

Danish designers Markus Buch, Matt Ward and Christian Fisker recently announced a new Kickstarter campaign for their portable, Bluetooth-enabled portable speakers that spew and sputter…

Nexpaq is a smart, modular Iron Man suit for your smartphone

Phones embracing the beauty of modular technology might still seem a big strange to some, and a bit far from consumer reality. This is…

Tuning fork: lessons from Cadence’s failed Kickstarter campaign

Making music is like solving a puzzle. There are structures and rules you need to follow. But unlike puzzles, music requires you to apply…

Droplet reminds users to take meds, feed the dog using the Cloud

Monotonous tasks are easy to forget because our brains are meant to be constantly entertained and challenged, but boredom is necessary. No, I’m not…

Aivvy Q is an intelligent, wireless streaming music system for your head

Some ideas just work on crowdfunding platforms like Kickstarter. With the prevalence of music streaming services currently taking the world by storm, it would…

Meld turns your hob into a smart, automated cooking system

I’m suddenly hungry, and I blame Kickstarter. There seems to be a never-ending line innovators hell-bent on disrupting one of humankind’s age old faffs…

FlyShark is the smartphone challenger Kickstarter’s been waiting for

Smartwatches are slowly creeping back into the limelight, with the recent announcement of the LG Watch Urbane and the imminent launch of the long…

Grifta ‘morphing gamepad’ is a customisable, modular gaming controller

Gamepads are essential to gamers of both PC and console persuasions nowadays, providing better freedom of movement than the mouse and keyboard can provide….

TrackTag shatters Kickstarter funding goal by fivefold in first few days

There are some deliciously interesting tech ideas on Kickstarter but often the most successful projects are the most simple or the ones that solve…

Hemingwrite is the typewriter for the modern age

The Hemingwrite is a portable typewriter that features a large e-ink display and the ability to upload your work to the cloud via WiFi. It’s also a…

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