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anthonypants
May 6, 2007

by Nyc_Tattoo
Dinosaur Gum

NoneMoreNegative posted:

$613,427 USD total funds raised
4870% funded on December 25, 2015


I just looked back through my old posts on a whim to see which excellent projects were 100% successful

lmao at this, the last update one year ago and the pages of angry backers. I am not surprised.
Dickson Chng 1 year ago
sad … this is my third scammed project. This will be my final investment.

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overdesigned
Apr 10, 2003

We are compassion...
Lipstick Apathy
I'm the no-fan picoprojector that clearly has a fan in the top left corner of the image

RISCy Business
Jun 17, 2015

bork bork bork bork bork bork bork bork bork bork bork bork bork bork bork bork bork bork bork bork bork bork bork bork bork bork bork bork bork bork bork bork bork bork bork bork bork bork bork bork bork bork bork bork bork bork bork bork bork bork bork bork bork bork bork bork bork bork bork bork
Fun Shoe

overdesigned posted:

I'm the no-fan picoprojector that clearly has a fan in the top left corner of the image

:thejoke:

big scary monsters
Sep 2, 2011

-~Skullwave~-
no! fan design

Glorgnole
Oct 23, 2012

Endless Mike posted:

y'all all I want a fucken house drone to do is bring me a fucken beer. get the gently caress on it sv

this is a solved problem but it's a bit more substantial than a lil flying drone
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c3Cq0sy4TBs

hackbunny
Jul 22, 2007

I haven't been on SA for years but the person who gave me my previous av as a joke felt guilty for doing so and decided to get me a non-shitty av

FormatAmerica posted:

It looks and sounds like it's supposed to be used as an automated defense drone that lands and woodchippers the heads of its targets.

https://ksr-video.imgix.net/assets/018/396/758/60979528e6518e8725399dd81ee4ec37_h264_high.mp4

this is so surreal

NoneMoreNegative
Jul 20, 2000
GOTH FASCISTIC
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shit wizard dad

FormatAmerica posted:

It looks and sounds like it's supposed to be used as an automated defense drone that lands and woodchippers the heads of its targets.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bVeYgXYoaz8&t=105s

Chalks
Sep 30, 2009

Do you love the sound of loud fans? Do you wish you could have that sound, on demand, in your own home? Then this kickstater is for you!

FrozenVent
May 1, 2009

The Boeing 737-200QC is the undisputed workhorse of the skies.

Glorgnole posted:

this is a solved problem but it's a bit more substantial than a lil flying drone
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c3Cq0sy4TBs

there's a guy that rigged a mini fridge to throw a beer at his couch at the push of a button

poo poo owned

Cocoa Crispies
Jul 20, 2001

Vehicular Manslaughter!

Pillbug
until it can desecrate a hotdog with ketchup i'm not interested

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JcniyQYFU6M

Spatial
Nov 15, 2007

hackbunny posted:

this is so surreal
yeah, weird how the show feels when the laugh track is muted

hackbunny
Jul 22, 2007

I haven't been on SA for years but the person who gave me my previous av as a joke felt guilty for doing so and decided to get me a non-shitty av
it looks like a viral trailer for some sci fi movie

flakeloaf
Feb 26, 2003

Still better than android clock

Cocoa Crispies posted:

until it can desecrate a hotdog with ketchup i'm not interested

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JcniyQYFU6M

the automato is a national treasure

hifi
Jul 25, 2012

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01N0DGA00/ fidget standing desk mat

Bulgakov
Mar 8, 2009


рукописи не горят

bring back national work projects because everyone just wants fair and honest work outside like a hyooman in the world

but until then please prime-ship me some lumpenplastic for my feet, jeffry bez!

gonadic io
Feb 16, 2011

>>=

Probably Ergonomic (tm)

NoneMoreNegative
Jul 20, 2000
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shit wizard dad

lorf; the IndieGogo has another thousand-percent funded personal projector / speaker, it doesn't look as scammy as the last one but that's no proof... However, this promotional item made me lol




yes I'm sure this will go down well in the bar you millennials are drinking in :eyepop:

Cocoa Crispies
Jul 20, 2001

Vehicular Manslaughter!

Pillbug
Clint held up the sonic grenade and tapped the "+" marking, sending waves of pressure out of the device. While his compatriots frolicked in the small safe zone around the device, patrons beyond the radius were not so lucky.

Chalks
Sep 30, 2009

Spending your night out with one arm raised holding this device certainly sounds like a fun time

HAIL eSATA-n
Apr 7, 2007


on that same page there's a referral thing so you can spam everyone you know about a lovely projector with 854x480 res that almost lasts long enough for a whole movie

Schadenboner
Aug 15, 2011

by Shine

Cocoa Crispies posted:

Clint held up the sonic grenade and tapped the "+" marking, sending waves of pressure out of the device. While his compatriots frolicked in the small safe zone around the device, patrons beyond the radius were not so lucky.

Oh you've played Shadowrun third edition too, then?

A Pinball Wizard
Mar 23, 2005

I know every trick, no freak's gonna beat my hands

College Slice

im the massage mounds

MrMoo
Sep 14, 2000

For Google car park campers: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1946545583/notel-ultimate-pickup-truck-and-suv-mobile-sleepin

It looks like they've immediately abandoned it though? idk

duTrieux.
Oct 9, 2003

MrMoo posted:

For Google car park campers: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1946545583/notel-ultimate-pickup-truck-and-suv-mobile-sleepin

It looks like they've immediately abandoned it though? idk



i'm pretty sure that car grab bars and headrests aren't designed to support several hundred pounds of pressure for many hours straight

Carthag Tuek
Oct 15, 2005

Tider skal komme,
tider skal henrulle,
slægt skal følge slægters gang



MrMoo posted:

For Google car park campers: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1946545583/notel-ultimate-pickup-truck-and-suv-mobile-sleepin

It looks like they've immediately abandoned it though? idk



ugh this is the worst bioshock level

A Pinball Wizard
Mar 23, 2005

I know every trick, no freak's gonna beat my hands

College Slice
https://puri.sm/shop/librem-5/

quote:

Librem 5, the phone that focuses on security by design and privacy protection by default. Running Free/Libre and Open Source software and a GNU+Linux Operating System designed to create an open development utopia, rather than the walled gardens from all other phone providers.

A fully standards-based freedom-oriented system, based on Debian and many other upstream projects, has never been done before–we will be the first to seriously attempt this.

The Librem 5 phone will be the world's first ever IP-native mobile handset, using end-to-end encrypted decentralized communication.

flakeloaf
Feb 26, 2003

Still better than android clock


great

the yeelong leemobile

moron izzard
Nov 17, 2006

Grimey Drawer

moron izzard posted:

Yearly glowforge update: they have been shipping for a few months. Slowly. People seem generally pleased with their basics - though software maturity is holding back some features still (including some major ones for the pro, like indexing for the pssthrough slot). Their current estimate is to have all initial backers (first 30 days) shipped by the end of October. However, their definition of shipping has become vague over the past few months.

Their original claim is that it's "shipped" when they send you the email about whether or not you want it shipped now, or later if you also preordered an air filter or for some other reason. Actual shipping of the item can be as far as 6 weeks later. However, Dan has very explicitly stated that it would be the less bullshit definition of shipped for the October 31 deadline. According to their status updates, they are currently shipping (definition 1) day 9 of basic Glowforge's, and day 1 of pro units (the user ran self reporting spreadsheet is less optimistic). Also note that they have shipped no international units. If they're still going to give a 6 week lead time on those emails to actual shipping, they'd need to send days 10-30 their shipping notices today in order to meet Dans promise (definition 2)

Update: their October update did announce a delay. But they delayed the specific delays to this week, where they are directly emailing each person and telling them how long they’ll wait. they STILL are claiming most folk from the 30 day preorder will get theirs this month. They’re on day 14 of basic and day 6 of pro orders now.

Also they just canceled the orders from about 20 different countries because these dorks still are incredibly cheap when it comes to shipping https://community.glowforge.com/t/sad-news-for-some-international-backers/12677

NoneMoreNegative
Jul 20, 2000
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shit wizard dad

https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/aircon-watch-the-world-s-first-personal-a-c-watch

six thousand percent funded

HAIL eSATA-n
Apr 7, 2007



air con indeed

NoneMoreNegative
Jul 20, 2000
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shit wizard dad

HAIL eSATA-n posted:

air con indeed

lomarf they should have made the unit name A-Con and it would still have sold like crazy.

anthonypants
May 6, 2007

by Nyc_Tattoo
Dinosaur Gum

HAIL eSATA-n posted:

air con indeed

Sagebrush
Feb 26, 2012

okay, so it's just a peltier unit and a battery in a watch strap?

the 400mAh battery they specify stores around 1.46 watt-hours (5300J) of energy if there are no losses

a human being who eats 2000kcal of food energy per day releases about 100 watts of energy continuously, on average (Wachowski & Wachowski, "The Matrix", 1999).

the heating unit of this watch, it is claimed, runs for up to 8 hours. luckily, turning electrical energy into heat is a perfectly efficient process (although getting it into the person's body is another question), so we can determine that the watch emits around 180 milliwatts of heat over that 8 hour period.

so the watch adds an additional 0.18% to the person's normal metabolic heat. or, to put it another way, the 5300 joules contained in the battery is energetically equivalent to 1.25 kilocalories -- approximately as much energy as in 10 grains of rice (1/3 gram).

the cooling situation is even worse, because peltiers are notoriously inefficient heat pumps. i'd guess at best you might see a fifth as much cooling power, 30-50 milliwatts or so.

JawnV6
Jul 4, 2004

So hot ...

Sagebrush posted:

so the watch adds an additional 0.18% to the person's normal metabolic heat. or, to put it another way, the 5300 joules contained in the battery is energetically equivalent to 1.25 kilocalories -- approximately as much energy as in 10 grains of rice (1/3 gram).

aha! but we're taking advantage of the... uh... *scrambles for old lifehack*

uh... pulse points! that's right, we're cooling off the wrist blood and it goes around the body to cool it off!! this somehow invalidates the energy math writ large

The Eyes Have It
Feb 10, 2008

Third Eye Sees All
...snookums
Well a couple rare earth magnets (all natural ingredients) in the watch strap will attract blood (blood contains iron and copper you see) and something about body rhythms to solve that.

hifi
Jul 25, 2012

they should just sell heatsinks you mount on your body

OldAlias
Nov 2, 2013

bitcoin miner / personal heater

NoneMoreNegative
Jul 20, 2000
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shit wizard dad

I went looking for some more deconstructions of this Con unit and there's a whole reddit of bad crowdfunds

https://www.reddit.com/r/shittykickstarters/

Shifty Pony
Dec 28, 2004

Up ta somethin'


JawnV6 posted:

aha! but we're taking advantage of the... uh... *scrambles for old lifehack*

uh... pulse points! that's right, we're cooling off the wrist blood and it goes around the body to cool it off!! this somehow invalidates the energy math writ large

theoretically you could gently caress with someone's perception of temperature and make them feel more warm or cold by strategically heating or cooling sensitive areas. I bet you could even get the body to overreact and actually cause skin temperatures to temporarily get colder or warmer as a result.

this watch is a bunch of bullshit though.

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JawnV6
Jul 4, 2004

So hot ...

Shifty Pony posted:

theoretically you could gently caress with ... this watch is a bunch of bullshit though.
this is the convo i get backed into a lot re: poo poo kickstarters, like yeah it's not inconceivable that such a device could exist, but 3 dropouts in boston ain't the crew that cracked that nut

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