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Evil Fluffy posted:So we're going to see higher tiers of the Juicero: Juicerora and Juiceroga? Juiceja That's actually a great name for one.
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And just when I thought I had caught up with all the new Pokemon.
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The australian engineer youtube guy with an annoying voice examined a juicero and commented on it being really well built with no cutting corners on materials, but also useless
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unpacked robinhood posted:The australian engineer youtube guy with an annoying voice examined a juicero and commented on it being really well built with no cutting corners on materials, but also useless sillicon_valley.txt
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unpacked robinhood posted:The australian engineer youtube guy with an annoying voice examined a juicero and commented on it being really well built with no cutting corners on materials, but also useless That's the part that sticks out the most for me, anyone can make a useless product. But these guys engineered the hell out of that thing and got nowhere.
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voting third party posted:That's the part that sticks out the most for me, anyone can make a useless product. But these guys engineered the hell out of that thing and got nowhere. Sure they did it perfectly avoids the evil life force destroying parts!
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Earlier today I remembered a Kickstarter "success" story from 2014 and thought I'd check in on how they're doing. Let me (re)introduce you to the Coolest Cooler, a cooler (as in an insulated box designed to keep food cold) with a built-in blender and Bluetooth speaker which is somehow supposed to justify the $400 MSRP. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yddkQmyjUVQ They raised over $13.2 million from over 65k backers. You'd think this would be enough to deliver on their Kickstarter pre-orders, but apparently not. The comment section of their page still receives about 1 post per day from a backer asking where their cooler is:   The top reviews on Amazon also say that the batteries have a tendency to die (refuse to charge) after only a few uses, the included speaker has basically no waterproofing, and their customer service is non-existent. Their last public update was from 2016 and the last backer update was in Februrary. All the updates have hundreds of comments on them, so it's probably the same story as the general comment section. So what have they been doing while not delivering on their promises to backers? Designing a new miniature version of their cooler (minus the blender + speaker), apparently: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j_iUOj9Z6T8 Mr.Radar has a new favorite as of 04:15 on Aug 20, 2018 |
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voting third party posted:That's the part that sticks out the most for me, anyone can make a useless product. But these guys engineered the hell out of that thing and got nowhere. It's also easy to buy parts 10x better than you need and charge way too much. A really well engineered product will be resilient to use and abuse but won't have the same kind of gratuitous money waste. It'll also have significantly fewer parts to accomplish the same thing.
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Dylan16807 posted:It's also easy to buy parts 10x better than you need and charge way too much. Engineering vs German style engineering.
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A joke I remember from college: If a normal person needs to keep his pants up, he'll wear a belt. If a German engineer needs to keep his pants up, he'll put on a belt, suspenders, design a new hybrid belt-spender and finally put his hands on his pockets and hold on.
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This was in the ads in my FB feed. I'm not sure wtf is supposed to be interesting about it all but it's funded 5 times over. It's a flashlight with a USB charger and I guess big boobed women like to attach it to machine guns https://www.kickstarter.com/project...ce=42dsa.fnd.to
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For some godawful reason i haven't told indiegogo to stop sending me emails, so today i got one with this in it A smart speaker that streams Netflix too? Yes! And everything other speakers won't do. ★ A Portable, Voice-controlled Smart Speaker that streams media from Spotify, YouTube, Twitch, Netflix, Musicoin, Emanate and many more. ★ Made to move! Enjoy your media on the go with 6-8 hours of non-stop usage ★ Android, WiFi, Bluetooth, Wireless Charging ★ Easily buy and spend crypto with your voice, tip musicians with crypto https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/volareo-the-most-versatile-speaker-ever There's no pictures of the ports. there's no pictures of it in operation. the campaign video is a bunch of baloney and a single clip of some guy yelling at a dummy model to order roses for mom and pay with ether. Of course it's fully funded!
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The X but with Bitcoin legend continues.
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I really, really hope that is an elaborate scheme to steal bitcoin.
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DoctorTristan posted:I really, really hope that is an elaborate scheme to steal bitcoin. Oops you tried to tip a creator but it sent all the coins to us instead. Ah well no backsies!
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veni veni veni posted:This was in the ads in my FB feed. I'm not sure wtf is supposed to be interesting about it all but it's funded 5 times over. It's a flashlight with a USB charger and I guess big boobed women like to attach it to machine guns ORIN LOVES GUN
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DoctorTristan posted:I really, really hope that is an elaborate scheme to steal bitcoin. It involves bitcoin, so the chances of it not being an elaborate scheme to steal bitcoin are exactly zero.
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Quote-Unquote posted:It involves bitcoin, so the chances of it not being an elaborate scheme to steal bitcoin are exactly zero. Which is the funnier scam: i) Ship a bunch of AliExpress smart speakers, wait for idiots to add their bitcoin wallet details, steal internet funny money ii) Don’t ship anything and steal $$$
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iii) have post kickstarter survey include request for wallet details for "easy preloaded set up", ship nothing, steal both real dollars and internet fun dollars.
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Take money, take five+ years to develop, ship with open-source smart-speaker software which will be all over the place, and nobody will care about bitcoin because the bubble burst.
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New era of Kickstarter campaigning is apparently the prehype and I bumbled on this one. HoverGlide, a bouncy backback behind you, when you find other backpacks so unconvinient for exercising and running with
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simplyhorribul posted:New era of Kickstarter campaigning is apparently the prehype and I bumbled on this one. I am perplexed and astounded by how dumb this is.
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What's really dumb is they keep acting like somehow it's gouing to make things lighter.
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simplyhorribul posted:New era of Kickstarter campaigning is apparently the prehype and I bumbled on this one. I really don’t understand this. If you’re running with a backpack, isn’t the whole point that it’s heavier and therefore a better workout? And if you actually needed to carry something heavy like when you’re camping, a camping backpack is going to be 1000x better bc all the weight is on your hips etc?
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It's an impact thing. Big camping packs are great for hiking but not for running. Running with a full bag means it whacks against you over and over with each step, and you can get huge chafe marks, blisters, bruises, etc. Remember, a lot of the damage in running is from friction over time (e.g. how runners get chapped and bleeding nipples from something as simple as their shirt rubbing against them consistently over an extended period of time). I don't know if this would actually solve the problem but I get what they're attempting to do.
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Perfect, a tool I can lend to people who ask to borrow tools.
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a_good_username posted:I really don’t understand this. If you’re running with a backpack, isn’t the whole point that it’s heavier and therefore a better workout? And if you actually needed to carry something heavy like when you’re camping, a camping backpack is going to be 1000x better bc all the weight is on your hips etc? Running with a backpack is a fast track to lower limb injuries. This idea is however stupid.
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Seems like it'd be easier to get saddlebags for an energetic dog.
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I misread that as "not your average fleshlight" and I'm not sure which is better
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Cthulhu Dreams posted:Running with a backpack is a fast track to lower limb injuries. This idea is however stupid. Awful Kickstarters Vol II: This idea however is stupid.
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We're going to get an actual sequel to Space Jam before Barkley 2 comes out  https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/ryan-coogler-produce-lebron-james-space-jam-sequel-1145386
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Guy Mann posted:We're going to get an actual sequel to Space Jam before Barkley 2 comes out Internet forum humor and puns take a lot of time to perfect.
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https://i.imgur.com/JOoNidE.gifv Say hello to Mayu, the cat water fountain for humans.
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I don't get why you can't just sell something as a novelty anymore. If they were selling it as the "swirly carafe! Be the biggest hit at your dinner party" it would still be dumb, but so much less offensive. But no, everything has to have some pseudoscientific health benefits now and some boogeyman poo poo about how your normal water isn't natural because apparently coming out of the loving faucet doesn't aerate it enough already.
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Is that just a magnetic stirring plate?
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Pretty much, you can see it better in the other gif:
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Oxygenated water tastes better. I usually just give it a good shake.
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Hungry Computer posted:Pretty much, you can see it better in the other gif: That was the one that caught my eye.
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