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Kazy posted:https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/525554173/lumir-c-candle-powered-led-lamp 
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Doesn't sound so bad as long as it lets the light from the candle out and only uses its heat. Of course their video lies a ton about how much light their thing produces. It's probably a dim blueish glow irl e: quote:*Tip : Using your favorite scented candle with Lumir C will make you feel relaxed.
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Feb 6, 2016 13:48
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I love how these KS always pitch this overengineered, overpriced plastic garbage solutions in search of a problem as ~helping the developing world~ We've come to know the seriousness of blackouts travelling throughout India. Though many households in developing countries still brighten the darkness with candle light, it is too dark to lead an everyday life with only one candle. Therefore we agonized over the problem. 'What if they can light up a room with just one candle?' I'd be genuinely interested to see what the professed target audience thinks. Yes, your dim-rear end lamp that starts at $60 is a much better solution to people living on ₹35 (50 American cents) a day than lighting another candle, or, you know, doing poo poo when it's daylight out.
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Feb 6, 2016 13:56
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Korthal posted:Actually I will post these two gifs. This would only be brilliant if they have a monthly subscription fee services associated with it and if you ever miss a payment the machine grips your dick like a vice refusing to let go until your outstanding balance reads 0.
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Feb 6, 2016 14:02
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There is no reason the candle for light thing wouldn't actually light brighter than the candle. A bit of Googling reveals that a candle emits 20-40 watt of energy, primarily as heat. Using an LED that translates to a hell of a lot of energy. From their video it unsurprisingly seems they only harvest small percentages of the energy. Unfortunately, this is all hipster bullshit, though. It is an environmental nightmare (the conversion is inefficient and candles emit a ton of particles) making a LED lightbulb powered by a coal plant seem super-efficient. All in all, the perfect Kickstarter and my only regret is it is not flexible funding.
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Feb 6, 2016 14:05
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Otisburg posted:I'd be genuinely interested to see what the professed target audience thinks. They probably think "I'll just use Olafur Eliasson's Little Sun instead"
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Feb 6, 2016 18:35
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klafbang posted:There is no reason the candle for light thing wouldn't actually light brighter than the candle. A bit of Googling reveals that a candle emits 20-40 watt of energy, primarily as heat. Using an LED that translates to a hell of a lot of energy. From their video it unsurprisingly seems they only harvest small percentages of the energy. It's not even a novel product: http://www.leevalley.com/en/Garden/page.aspx?p=68887&cat=2,40731&ap=1 http://buytpod.com/tpod-catalog/enviro-light/
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Feb 7, 2016 01:49
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There should be Kickstarter bingo. Dishonestly claiming to help 3rd world countries product already exists in less pretentious form solution to a non existent problem canned epic "indie" sounding music in the video kickstarting an idea they will never be able to deliver on founders have beards and hitler youth haircuts What are some other ones that could be on there?
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Feb 7, 2016 01:58
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Demonstration product only exists as a photoshop If the product worked as advertised it'd violate the laws of physics
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Feb 7, 2016 02:02
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"I don't have anything remotely resembling the rights to this multi-million dollar intellectual property, but we'll cross that bridge when we get to it."
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Feb 7, 2016 02:19
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I need money to hire a team of professionals who will make my incredible idea a reality.
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Feb 7, 2016 02:21
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I only need a few thousand dollars to solve technical problems large companies are throwing millions of dollars at.
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Feb 7, 2016 02:23
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"Oh hi, I didn't see you there!"
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Feb 7, 2016 02:24
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"...with an iPhone" "Drone" "Artisanal"
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Feb 7, 2016 02:26
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I dont bother with or know how to proofreed, or use spllecheck.
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Feb 7, 2016 02:28
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A social experiment, where people give me money for free.
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Feb 7, 2016 02:31
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The only risk is there is no risk at all!
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Feb 7, 2016 02:33
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Idea -> mass production in less than 6 months Risks & Challenges: none
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Feb 7, 2016 02:34
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Promise to make mass produced bespoke, handmade products.
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Feb 7, 2016 02:37
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Fund my Let's Play and/or YouTube career! Publishing a video game made in RPG maker.
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Feb 7, 2016 02:42
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I (a complete nobody) will acknowledge you in some trivial and meaningless way. I (a complete nobody or charitably maybe a Z-list celebrity in a narrow niche) will spend an awkward day/weekend/dinner with you. Even though this is the absurd 5-10k+ vanity tier no travel or lodging expenses are included.
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Feb 7, 2016 02:45
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I don't acknowledge any donations for less than $50.
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Feb 7, 2016 02:49
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I need $10,000 and only have a $1 tier that is limited to 1 backer.
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Feb 7, 2016 04:23
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I've made and sold this product dozens of times over and have funding from a large company but I just need a little bit more funding to make this happen!
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Feb 7, 2016 05:57
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That Alibaba company with identical designs obviously ripped off my Kickstarter video whiteboard sketches/3D model.
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Feb 7, 2016 06:00
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klafbang posted:There is no reason the candle for light thing wouldn't actually light brighter than the candle. A bit of Googling reveals that a candle emits 20-40 watt of energy, primarily as heat. Using an LED that translates to a hell of a lot of energy. Except that you're thermodynamically not going to be able to passively turn heat into light.
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Feb 7, 2016 06:40
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Phanatic posted:Except that you're thermodynamically not going to be able to passively turn heat into light. You can. A lamp with a candle is not an isolated system; you have include the room it is in. When you heat up some element inside the lamp, energy gets concentrated by exciting the atoms in the element. When an electron of an element atom enters a lower energy state and emits a photon, energy in the entire system (room and lamp) becomes more uniform as the lamp gets colder and the room warmer.
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Feb 7, 2016 08:18
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klafbang posted:You can. A lamp with a candle is not an isolated system; you have include the room it is in. When you heat up some element inside the lamp, energy gets concentrated by exciting the atoms in the element. When an electron of an element atom enters a lower energy state and emits a photon, energy in the entire system (room and lamp) becomes more uniform as the lamp gets colder and the room warmer. nice
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Feb 7, 2016 08:19
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NESguerilla posted:There should be Kickstarter bingo. Harveygod posted:Publishing a video game made in RPG maker. And its a roguelike zombie-RPG MMO with a bigger scale than Skyrim/Fallout4/Witcher 3. I'm an "ideas guy" I just need programmers to bring my dream to life! Also, a budget that's 1/1000th what was needed to make the aforementioned examples cause AAA budgets are just greedy fatcats that don't understand gaming am i rite guyz/galz? Snuffman has a new favorite as of 08:32 on Feb 7, 2016 |
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Feb 7, 2016 08:28
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Phanatic posted:Except that you're thermodynamically not going to be able to passively turn heat into light. What do you mean by "passively"? The thermoelectric effect is a thing; it's not a 100% efficient thing, but it's a thing
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Feb 7, 2016 08:32
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By gamers, for gamers. e: I've played videogames all day for decades! With all those hours of research, how could my pie in the sky game idea not turn out perfectly??
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Feb 7, 2016 08:47
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Pyroclastic posted:I couldn't find any decent bingo card templates, so I made this terrible thing in Word. Quoting myself from almost three years ago. Things haven't changed much.
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Feb 7, 2016 09:50
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This person or these people are misrepresenting a cause. This project will fund a documentary to counteract their lies!
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Feb 7, 2016 09:59
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vent hood done plum give out
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RandomPauI posted:This person or these people are misrepresenting a cause. This project will fund a documentary to counteract their lies! Remember the guy who wanted to disprove that DNA is a double-helix? 
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Feb 7, 2016 10:23
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 Proclick AF. Dude has a one-hour pitch video. I scrubbed through and found a gem at ~55 minutes in. "I'm not a 'professional biochemist...'" complete with air quotes.
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Feb 7, 2016 10:42
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Have any of the games "ideas" guys actually been funded? Barring obvious stuff like Star Citizen. I mean people that literally have no idea how to make a game and think Kickstarter $$$ is enough to magically make it happen.
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Feb 7, 2016 10:54
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Ideas guys usually never get funding Ideas guys who hire marketing guys though? loving swimming in dollars signs like Scrooge Mcduck
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NESguerilla posted:Have any of the games "ideas" guys actually been funded? Barring obvious stuff like Star Citizen. I mean people that literally have no idea how to make a game and think Kickstarter $$$ is enough to magically make it happen. There's been a bunch of things where the guy is using an easy toolkit like RPG Maker or something like that and the thing gets funded and even comes out. They tend to be bad of course, but it happens a lot.
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Successful but also very much in the spirit of this thread, Tickle King just got bought by HBO after a successful premiere at Sundance.
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