We have our opinions on Kickstarter. But central to whatever Kickstarter claims to be is its ability to teach business neophytes the ropes. As Dan Misener shows, though, that’s undermined by suppressing the visibility of failed projects.
The kids who kickstarted a Battlestar Galactica Viper simulator project back in March actually managed to get it up and flying at Maker Faire 2012! It rotates in every direction, as anticipated. It is quite an amazing achievement.
This isn’t a Kickstarter post. This is a post about Tentacle Bento, the card game that allows players to “assume the role of tentacle monsters disguised as buxom students at an all-girl’s school in Japan”.
The Chalktrail is an inexpensive bike add-on that allows artsy boys and girls to draw pretty patterns while they ride. It also doubles (perhaps unintentionally) as a low-tech GPS device to keep track of your child’s every move.
There are those of us who believe Velcro should only be used in children’s footwear. Not in clothing, not in bags, and absolutely definitely certainly not in the padded dividers that protect your camera gear. Sooo annoying. If you agree, you might want to help fund the TrekPak.
Parametric speakers aren’t exactly new, but this Kickstarter idea is tiny and practical. The Soundlazer delivers a focused beam of audio in a single direction. Theoretically, you could point it at yourself, and nobody around you would hear your embarrassing music at all.
Kickstarters are usually started to raise funds to make wacky concepts real, put cool ideas in our life and, apparently, to buy Kickstarter itself. In this hilarious Kickstarter hosted on Kickstarter, Eric Moneypenny wants to raise funds to buy Kickstarters.
They are a group of five high-school students from Marin and San Francisco. They’ve built projects for MakerFaire before, and now they want to do something really amazing: build a full BSG Viper simulator with 360-degree motion in all directions.
There’s no end to the number of kickstand-equipped iPhone cases you can buy, but most are designed to let you prop up your phone for watching movies. The iFilm, however, is like a tiny tripod for capturing movies instead.
