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  • $99 Ouya game console delayed until late June

    Posted May 9, 2013 - 3:49 pm

    If you weren't one of the early backers of Ouya's $100 Android game console, you'll have to wait a little bit longer to get one.
  • GameStick delay underscores the gamble of Kickstarter

    Posted April 9, 2013 - 11:40 am

    PlayJam, which got Kickstarter support for its GameStick console, has delayed release of the portable device to its backers to early June from its initial April target.
  • Kickstarter is definitely not a store

    Posted April 2, 2013 - 2:55 pm

    Kickstarter does not create "products" in the way that something you add to your Amazon cart is a product. I think this bears repeating, and pondering more than once.
  • Watches that were smart before there were smart watches

    Posted March 28, 2013 - 11:21 am

    Believe it or not, some watches were smart, in their own ways, well before the Pebble was kickstarted or the iWatch rumored
  • Pebble watch review, part 2: one week of '10-4'

    Posted March 15, 2013 - 2:28 pm

    The Pebble just tells you, quickly, that you need to respond to your spouse’s request to be picked up at work, or helps you ignore the 20th message about that Facebook event you’re not even going to.
  • 4 things you can do to save Google Reader

    Posted March 14, 2013 - 11:37 am

    Depending on how badly you want Google Reader to survive, here are four things you can do to try and save it before it shuts down on July 1st
  • Pebble watch review: Three days of cool wrist vibrations

    Posted March 12, 2013 - 10:17 am

    The Pebble watch is a nice thing to have, if your phone notifications are worth $150 to you.
  • Review

    Best products of 2012: Business and productivity

    Posted December 5, 2012 - 9:33 pm

    We select the year's best products for getting work and business done.
  • 6 Kickstarter nightmares, and how to prevent them

    Posted November 5, 2012 - 4:29 pm

    For tens of thousands of entrepreneurs frustrated by Washington's arcane legal rules for raising business capital, Kickstarter has been nothing short of a red-tape weed whacker. The crowd-funding website lets individual investors pledge money directly to inventors and artists, handily upending the complex and often impossible process of raising financing one person at a time.
  • Rejected by Kickstarter? 'Roll your own' with Selfstarter instead

    Posted October 14, 2012 - 9:40 pm

    There's been no shortage of controversy surrounding Kickstarter this year as the crowdfunding platform has gained popularity, prompting the institution of new rules and belt-tightening measures in recent months.
  • TinyDuino and Parallella: Kickstarter projects that kick computing butt

    Posted October 6, 2012 - 7:33 am

    These projects are at opposite ends of the computing spectrum and they are both hot!
  • The Weekly Hash - October 5, 2012

    Posted October 5, 2012 - 10:56 am

    A weekly review of the top tech stories, this week featuring Mars, Marissa Mayer and Microsoft
  • Games raise over $50 million on Kickstarter this year

    Posted September 15, 2012 - 7:40 am

    Kickstarter has gone ahead and declared what most gamers have already noticed: in terms of crowdfunding, this is the year of games. On Kickstarter alone game projects have raised over $50 million dollars, and there's still four months left in the year. That number has rocketed games from the 8th most funded category of all time to the 2nd most funded; this year games have defeated all other crowdfunded projects, raising $8 million more than films, the second-highest funded category of projects.
  • This week in Kickstarter: a webcomic raises $500,000 for a game in a day

    Posted September 8, 2012 - 7:25 am

    A gaming Kickstarter raising six figures in less than a day is barely even newsworthy these days. But even if the new Homestuck Kickstarter isn’t breaking any funding records, it’s still unusual enough to comment on because it shows just how much Kickstarter has changed fundraising for games and how that’s making games that never would have existed before possible.
  • Lumi uses sunshine to print images onto clothes

    Posted August 4, 2012 - 7:40 am

    Have you ever taken a picture so stunning that you wish you could show it off to the world? Well walking around with a framed picture is not only inconvenient, but also likely to drive away all your friends.
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    Step into newfound adventure with Quest for Glory II: Trial by Fire

    Posted July 20, 2012 - 9:12 pm

    In the wake of DoubleFine's "Adventure Game" Kickstarter success and the flood of projects it inspired, adventure games have become the latest cause célèbre of the indie community. It's a welcome change from the twenty years of cruel obscurity the genre suffered at the hands of action franchises, but in truth, good adventure games are difficult to make, and there are precious few of them. Nostalgia often renders a kinder judgment on games like King's Quest than its occasionally tedious mechanics deserve. The few games worthy of classic status from those early days earned their reputations largely on the basis of quality artwork and clever writing, rather than gameplay innovation. Sierra's Quest for Glory games bucked that trend, providing new twists for players with the standout being the second title of the series, Trial by Fire. AGD Interactive has rescued this fading star from obscurity with a
  • Clever iPhone keyboard seeks Kickstart

    Posted July 14, 2012 - 7:45 am

    If you're looking for clever gadgets, one place to find them is at Kickstarter.
  • Why Ouya is making a killing on Kickstarter

    Posted July 12, 2012 - 12:29 pm

    By the time you read this, more than 27,000 people will have pledged over $3.5 million to help finance the Ouya campaign on Kickstarter. That beats the Ouya team's asking price of $950,000 all hollow, and the pledge total will probably climb much, much higher before their crowdfunding campaign closes in the second week of August. Ouya raised more than a million dollars on Kickstarter in less than eight hours, beating out both Double Fine Adventure and the Pebble watch to become the fastest-growing Kickstarter campaign in history. It's a fantastic crowdfunding success story, but plenty of questions remain about why the Ouya campaign is attracting so many donors.
  • Robotics starter kit helps you build your first bot, just needs your code (and funding)

    Posted July 7, 2012 - 7:20 am

    Do you ever dream of building a robot army to take over the world, but you don't quite have the know-how to create a robot from scratch? Sometimes, knowing a bit of code isn't enough to complete a DIY project--you need to make sure all of the different hardware components correspond with each other before you can get your project up and running.
  • Laser cut animatronics robot comes to maker faire, needs your help

    Posted May 26, 2012 - 7:12 am

    Meet Roy. He's a swell guy, really. He's also a robot made largely out of parts cut on a laser cutter, and with your help on Kickstarter, you can own a piece of Roy, or even your own whole Roy robot.
  • An OS for the home and cool Kickstarter projects

    Posted May 19, 2012 - 7:42 am

    This week we start with something that has both intrigued and amused me: Microsoft Research has a new operating system in the works targeted at home automation called, with glaring dullness, HomeOS.
  • From laptop to legion - turning one computer into many

    Posted May 17, 2012 - 3:25 pm

    A recently launched Kickstarter-funded project aims to bring $50 thin clients to schools and small businesses, allowing them to turn almost any computer into a multi-user hub.
  • Crowdfunding: The latest way to get your project funded

    Posted May 2, 2012 - 12:40 pm

    Crowdfunding sites like Kickerstarter are offering both established businesses and entrepreneurs a viable alternative to venture capitalists.
  • Kickstarter funding request exposed as scam

    Posted May 1, 2012 - 4:03 pm

    Thanks to the detectives on several online communities, including Reddit, Something Awful, and Rock, Paper, Shotgun, a scam to exploit Kickstarter, the crowd-funding website, has been unveiled.
  • Do a barrel roll in this Battlestar Galactica Viper flight simulator

    Posted March 24, 2012 - 7:18 am

    So there's this group of five high school teenagers from Marin County, California and San Francisco, and they want to build a full-on Battlestar Galactica Viper motion-flight simulator for the 2012 Bay Area Maker Faire. You can help them turn their (my) super-nerdy dream into a reality on Kickstarter.
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