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Germstore posted:Glowforge has a similar setup, except it's $5000 laser cutters that will be left useless if they shut down their servers. Their response to that concern has basically been, "I don't know, maybe we'll open source the software, lol who knows." Can someone explain the reasoning behind this, because it sounds 100% batshit crazy to me.
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SpaceGoatFarts posted:And it works, the stupid e-ink shoes almost reached 1 million simply by hiring a company to write articles about it on tech and gadget blogs and sites. Is there a single photo or video of a the shoe being actually worn?
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MrMoo posted:Is there a single photo or video of a the shoe being actually worn? No they don't even have any kind of prototype, it's literally just an idea with a cgi video of what it could look like. The costs of making a shoe with full colour e-ink that wouldn't instantly explode the second you bend it into the shape of a shoe is at least 100x what they got through their kickstarter which is why they will try to disappear as quietly as possible.
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Do they actually say at any point where they'll get the flexible display? E Ink does seem to have a flexible one called Mobius, but I doubt it'll be anywhere near suitable for a shoe. I like this quote:quote:The technology and components have already existed for years now. It’s a matter of the different components working together in flexible form factors. The existing technologies suffer from certain issues and we are working to solve them. bvoid posted:Can someone explain the reasoning behind this, because it sounds 100% batshit crazy to me. IIRC, the pitch is that you don't need to run your own computer and software to prepare your file for the cutter - just connect it directly to wifi, send over the drawing to the cloud and wala! The downside is that you're hosed if the cloud takes a poo poo for some reason (like they go bankrupt) or their billing department messes up 
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this almost sounds like a modern day version of Maxwell Smarts shoe phone.
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Oh man, that is sending out all the warning signs. Including 'being on indiegogo.'
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#shiftwear did all my money go
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If you're buying an annoying musical shoe to wear in public you kinda deserve to be scammed.
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Too bad they didn't offer a jerky compartment as an incentive.
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Pingiivi posted:a jerky compartment Don't post my grindr username
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1) why the gently caress would you want speakers in your shoes 2) they won't be very good because of the limited amount of space to put a speaker
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I'm not going to wear a shoe that doesn't have any in-built internet browser.
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People loved those stupid cat ear headphones that had outward facing speakers on the ears. Some people just want to be a boombox.
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Can't someone make an indiegogo for Hulk Hogan Meat Shoes already?
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Are we posting gofundmes or is that too easy? https://www.gofundme.com/tabitha-west Also it's been funded and then some gently caress this planet.
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I hope she uses the money to get a second, bigger weed tattoo somewhere else on her face
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Uh, why crowdfund it then?
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Doobie's Dog House is dead. That's another Kickstarter project down the shitter.
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ALL-PRO SEXMAN posted:Doobie's Dog House is dead. That's another Kickstarter project down the shitter. What? When did that happen?
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Kilo147 posted:What? When did that happen? It was announced a few days ago. Doozie claims the building owner wants to pave paradise and put up a parking lot. Well, sell it to a funeral home so they can expand heir parking lot anyways.
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RandomPauI posted:It was announced a few days ago. Doozie claims the building owner wants to pave paradise and put up a parking lot. Well, sell it to a funeral home so they can expand heir parking lot anyways. Oh, man. I never got a chance to stop by and get food poisoning.
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RandomPauI posted:It was announced a few days ago. Doozie claims the building owner wants to pave paradise and put up a parking lot. Well, sell it to a funeral home so they can expand heir parking lot anyways. Doesn't surprise me, funerals are probably the only growth industry in that town.
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at least that kickstarter produced something (good threads and some hotdogs) I'm still waiting for The Lampster to fold. It's a classic combination of a kickstarter "team" consisting of one idiot with a dream and an advertiser. They were funded over a million on lamps of all things and have yet to even send out the backer surveys. Their chances of shipping in July are probably close to nil.
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Gilganixon posted:They were funded over a million on lamps of all things In defense of lamps (how many times will I get to say this in my life?), the Lumio is pretty sweet. And is out there in the wild! It was even on Shark Tank! The Lampster looks like a piece of poo poo though.
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Gilganixon posted:at least that kickstarter produced something (good threads and some hotdogs) The problem with Kickstarter is it makes people believe that with enough money they can easily figure out how to fulfill thousands of orders. This looks like a pretty basic project that a small team of skilled workers can pretty easily make a few hundred of. But with 6000 orders, it suddenly becomes a complex task that doesn't easily scale up and then you have to deal with all sorts of issues you've probably never thought about. Especially when they've promised to paint them by hand and source all the lights from old vehicles. I remember some dumb campaign a while back promised to sign every product, and then went viral. They posted pictures of them spending like a week in a warehouse trying to sign everything. Xandu has a new favorite as of 12:46 on Jan 23, 2016 |
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https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/neptune-suite-one-hub-infinite-possibilities#/updates Something tells me these guys, who have a fantastic idea, will not be shipping in a few weeks as promised.
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Xandu posted:The problem with Kickstarter is it makes people believe that with enough money they can easily figure out how to fulfill thousands of orders. This looks like a pretty basic project that a small team of skilled workers can pretty easily make a few hundred of. But with 6000 orders, it suddenly becomes a complex task that doesn't easily scale up and then you have to deal with all sorts of issues you've probably never thought about. Yeah the skill involved in hand painting a few hundred lamps and mailing them out is completely different from running an enterprise where a large team produces thousands of the things. I don't think these guys are scammers but I'll be real surprised if they don't fold with most of the orders unfulfilled . Kickstarter should stop accepting payments once the order volume exceeds the scope of the project but they like money and don't care if any of the projects actually succeed.
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Xandu posted:Especially when they've promised to paint them by hand and source all the lights from old vehicles. They were always planning on mass producing them so they must have a supplier for the headlights lined up. There's no way they're going around to flea markets and junk stores themselves buying individual headlights. Gilganixon posted:I don't think these guys are scammers but I'll be real surprised if they don't fold with most of the orders unfulfilled . They're still taking orders for even more lamps on their website! http://thelampster.com/
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mobby_6kl posted:However this is a very legitimate concern for developing countries where free or cheap second-hand stuff floods the market and destroys any chances the local manufacturers had: http://edition.cnn.com/2013/04/12/business/second-hand-clothes-africa/ Phanatic posted:I'm by no means the only person making that argument, and reacting to it dissmissively doesn't reduce its importance. Second-hand clothing imports have gutted textile industries and jobs in a number of African nations. Fair enough, thanks for the additional information.
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:They were always planning on mass producing them so they must have a supplier for the headlights lined up. There's no way they're going around to flea markets and junk stores themselves buying individual headlights. The stupid shoes kickstarter also has a site for orders (actually they even asked backers to move their orders to that site). Doesn't mean they will deliver anything though. http://www.shiftwear.com/ but it might make it easier for scammed backers to sue them
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 2016, Time for a new thread. PM me if you want to make the next one. Only qualifications are: can write an actual OP unlike me, likes kickstarter failures, isn't a shitposter.
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Not really a kickstarter but lol if it isn't the same brand of scammy bullshit for idiots. Free electric, 24h worth of electricity for your house by pedalling for 1h.
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Does the math not work? They're talking about lights and cell chargers, not water heaters and dryers. Paging Three Phase.
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There's not math to be done, they carefully give no meaningful numbers. Also their video description has the phrase: quote:Free Electric can light their homes and shops, make food storage possible Also I like when he talks about "those poors who aren't contributing anything to their outside world" (?) near 2'15
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unpacked robinhood posted:There's not math to be done, they carefully give no meaningful numbers. yeah if i wanted to make that kosher i would at least speak my mind
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If it's super efficient I think you'd get 200 watts tops. More than enough to charge low power devices. In theory you could probably design a refrigerator with a huge amount of insulation and it would work as long as you didn't open it often. e: looked closer in some of the shots and you can see the meter on the thing staying around 200.
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