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Alan Smithee posted:OtonX I notice they say "Not on Kickstarter because of policy change". Most likely referring to the "no using 3D models to pretend you have the design ready to go" policy. I've also come across a pretty interesting article on the OtonX: http://www.polygon.com/2013/1/10/3833080/oton-autonomous-game-console-crowdfunding
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Dieting Hippo posted:I watched it all, one part that stood out to me was Princess Peach has never been in a game as a protagonist. Except that game on the DS where she was, but we don't count that because ________. Don't forget her presence in Super Mario RPG.
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These guys are claiming that they can develop a practical neural interface for an iPhone by running a basic EEG sensor through the Siri voice recognition library: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/2102631547/mindgear-mind-control-for-siri-and-your-iphone?ref=category
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Kaethela posted:Emphasis mine. I'd also be bewildered if anything happened with this, but mostly because I don't think they have any idea how to make this work. If it were feasible to set up a neural interface with standard voice recognition algorithms, I would think that the PhD-level scientists researching this sort of thing would be all over it.
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Jalumibnkrayal posted:From the Project Zomboid thread, an indie game developer is dying from a piece of shrapnel embedded in her body from a car crash several years ago: "was not prepared for the court case"? Did she not know what a lawyer is?
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http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/zeiteco/zeit-eco-one-of-a-kind-multifunctional-electric-sc?ref=category Now someone else has gotten the idea that a box with wheels is the ideal form for an electric scooter.
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genesplicer posted:Sometimes, if they are specialists and want specialized products, it's easier to pay for exactly what you want than to search through hours and hours of tangentially-related adult material. ...I would assume. It seems like most of the successful projects on Offbeatr are intended for unconventional sexual desires.
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I'm not sure what to think of this one: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/galrozov/foldimate-the-robotic-laundry-folding-machine?ref=live It's an automatic laundry folding machine designed to be used in laundromats and ultimately homes (though at around $5000 to preorder one, that's probably a long way off). Does anyone really spend enough time with laundry folding that this would be a worthwhile labor saving invention?
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AlbieQuirky posted:Hospitals, hotels, linen rental services, etc. already do, which is why industrial folding machines exist. There's a world of difference between buying a machine to fold thousands of garments every day and paying for the privilege of having a machine slowly fold your personal laundry.
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Someone managed to get it in their head that crossing a golf cart with a skateboard would dramatically improve the golf experience. I'm sure there are some people out there who might appreciate an electric skateboard with some real build quality behind it, but how many golfers are going to spend over $3000 on this thing instead of renting a cart?
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The Beehive Sculpture - Modern art (of the "random crap glued together" style) combined with bees. I'm not sure whether to classify that as awful or awesome:
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Within the past month or so, a whole bunch of little startups have been taking preorders for smart watches (possibly related to Apple announcing plans to develop one and Samsung planning on selling one in about a month). Most of them have been making an honest effort to balance functionality with fashion, trying to give the watch a usable screen while making it look as close to not-geeky as possible. These people apparently just said "gently caress it" and designed a smart phone with a wrist strap: http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/androidly-smartwatch
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Mr.Radar posted:The specs on that thing are horribad for an Android device meant to run apps: 416 MHz CPU, 256 MB of RAM, 320x240 screen, 2G cellular, Android 2.2 (current version: 4.3). Even in their "phone" demo video you can see how horribly laggy it is doing basic tasks like placing a call or sending text messages and their "Internet" demo video has dozens of jump cuts to hide all of the UI lag. Plus their quoted battery life is 2 days of standby, which probably translates to no more than a few hours of screen-on time. To be fair, making a gadget powerful enough to run "full" Android in a wrist-watch form factor is fairly impressive but trying to actually use it looks like it would be nothing more than an exercise in frustration. Yeah, that's why most smart watches are designed to be linked to smart phones, operating mainly as dumb terminals with modest standalone functionality. It especially makes sense when you consider that anyone interested in smart watches is highly unlikely to not own a smart phone. If this thing had been designed to work that way, I might have been tempted to buy one (that and if it had been designed with wireless charging in mind, like one of the smart watches on Kickstarter). I for one am looking forward to seeing what Apple comes up with. Wearable computing seems like the sort of thing where Apple's style would really shine, seeing as how aesthetics would actually be pretty important to much of the potential customer base.
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Anyone remember Third Voice? Someone wants to start up something similar: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/331579200/heerme How likely do you suppose it is that this could avoid turning out like the comments on Youtube?
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http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/780359248/the-unplugging-box-give-the-gift-of-unplugging?ref=livequote:About the project This would be more or less respectable if their execution (what part of it they've bothered to show off, anyhow) didn't reek of vapid inspirational-sounding drivel. I mean, look at this: quote:At meals, use your hands to break bread, not to text or e-mail. Seriously, "break bread"? If these people give a rat's rear end about meaningfully spreading their message, maybe they shouldn't be targeting people who were collecting Social Security when the first iPhone was announced.
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Count Chocula posted:I was pretty annoyed when I heard this. I know there's legal reasons but there's already so much anti-GMO hysteria and regulation that this just removed another avenue for research. Well, there was this thing: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/930368578/openpcr-open-source-biotech-on-your-desktop?ref=live Now someone just needs to find a way to make a DNA synthesizer out of a Raspberry Pi and laser-cut plywood.
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Tatum Girlparts posted:How clumsy are your big fat ape paws that you need some gadget to separate yolks? I could see it being good to have if you do a lot of cooking which involves separating eggs.
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Oscilloscope Watch This looks like something that would seem awesome until you try to actually use it. I haven't done that much with oscilloscopes, but I'm pretty sure there's not much you can realistically do with five buttons and a minuscule screen. Plus wearing the thing on your wrist would, for many applications, likely cause more problems than it solves. WickedHate posted:That's all I can possibly believe, but it's just like those godawful Pac-Man joke books, so there is precedent. You mean like these Pac-Man joke books? http://www.cracked.com/blog/4-geek-humor-books-by-authors-who-understand-neither/ Hell, that Mango Chutney thing reminds me of drat near every themed family-friendly joke book I've even seen - take any old word related to the theme, desperately search for some way to make a pun out of it, and call it a joke.
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UncleSmoothie posted:There's so much loving schadenfreude to milk out of this I don't know what to do with myself Their funding was just suspended about an hour ago.
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Don Gato posted:Do you like Catan? Do you really loving like Catan? Buy a box designed especially for Settlers of Catan* that lets you showcase your love of a German board game! Actually, they're working on boxes for the expansion sets.
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Autechresaint posted:This has to be a money laundering thing, right? I mean they didn't even demo the product.. how does it get $250k? OUYA didn't have anything close to a working prototype, yet it still raked in millions. Though to be fair, they weren't promising anything blatantly unfeasible with today's technology.
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https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1939723822/fish-on-wheels?ref=categoryquote:An aquarium on wheels that enables fish to drive wherever they want to go. The fish controls the car by swimming in a certain direction Because what fish wouldn't enjoy being plopped in a puny aquarium and driven around?
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https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/mrbeam/mr-beam-a-portable-laser-cutter-and-engraver-kit These folks are aiming to make laser engravers more affordable to not-so-wealthy hobbyists. Which sounds awesome until you see that they've omitted such frivolous luxuries as "safety features". Meanwhile, an Australian team is offering a similar gadget for roughly the same price, except theirs has a shield around the laser beam, as well as a way more powerful laser and a sturdier looking frame: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1537608281/lazerblade-the-affordable-laser-cutter-engraver
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The world's smallest camera drone: https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/3d-pocketcopter-the-flying-camera#home More accurately, low-rent 3D models of a flying suppository with nothing to indicate that they've lifted a finger towards making it work. Plus they claim it'll be able to record 3D images despite being way too small for a proper stereoscopic setup. Plus it was set up as flexible funding with a goal of only 15,000 Euros. Am I right in assuming that it's maybe slightly more likely to see production than the projector watch?
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SpaceGoatFarts posted:How are you even supposed to control this with just one propeller on top? It looks like they were trying to depict a coaxial rotor setup without thinking about how they'll make the mechanics work at that scale. Plus it seems they've got some stiff competition for "world's smallest": http://www.helipal.com/walkera-qr-ladybird-fpv-2-4ghz-green-edition.html?gclid=CJDRrKa56cACFQQQ7AodFzcAtg
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So it seems Indiegogo is going to experiment with allowing campaigns with no set end date: http://techcrunch.com/2014/09/17/indiegogo-forever-funding/ This would be a pretty intriguing concept if it weren't coming from a site which has explicitly stopped giving a gently caress about overt scams.
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I'm not quite sure what to make of this: https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/pavlok-the-habit-changing-device-that-shocks-you It's a little thing that interfaces with a mobile app and shocks you when you engage in various unhealthy behaviors. They mention going to fast food places and not going to the gym (easy enough to detect via GPS), but also biting your nails and pressing the snooze button (not so much).
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RandomPauI posted:Are there any good kickstarters, gofundmes, or other crowdsource things going on right now? Here's one which looks like it could go either way: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/lifeshel/whistl-a-smartphone-case-that-aims-to-deter-sexual?ref=category It's a case that basically turns your phone into a high-tech rape whistle. Their Kickstarter page mentions them showing off the concept to none other than President Obama. In theory, it looks like something with real potential. It's just that given the history of Kickstarter and the consequences of something like this not working properly when you need it, I get this nagging feeling that something is waiting to go horribly wrong. PHIZ KALIFA posted:Yeah can we talk about how the magnet is held on with tape? Defeating the entire sourpuss of using a magnet in the first place? That's dumb. That's "just use a bandaid jfc" levels of dumb, at least a band-aid doesn't leave adhesive residue behind. I think the idea there is that instead of un-taping and re-taping the camera every time you use it, one of the magnets is permanently taped in place. If you actually use the camera in question on a regular basis, the latter would be substantially more convenient and last way longer.
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https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/509430931/faradair-new-eco-aircraft-called-beha?ref=discovery Some pie-in-the-sky concept for a diesel-electric airplane, with not a whole lot of evidence that these guys know what they're doing. quote:The aircraft will employ solar skin panels and wind turbine technology for energy recovery. These technologies are not the primary power source for the electric motors, but simply additional trickle charge capability. If they had done any meaningful research, they'd know that: a. Even the best solar cells, when mounted on a light plane as per their concept, wouldn't generate nearly enough power to be worth the cost or weight. b. Mounting a wind turbine on a plane would, according to the laws of thermodynamics, inevitably take away more energy that it would produce. And what's up with the triplane design? I was under the impression that the reason triplanes haven't been produced since World War I is because the extra wing produced extra drag - exactly what you don't want in a plane designed for maximum gas mileage.
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Subjunctive posted:Your body has to use more energy to maintain body temperature when it's cold, but I can't imagine that it makes much of a difference. Certainly not by draping a cold pack over your shoulders. There's been some research into developing "brown fat" through exposure to cold, but again, we'd be talking about way more cold than this thing will put out.
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Yet another wearable electronic doodad... except for monitoring farts instead of hearts: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/963861855/keep-track-of-your-gases-with-ch4 It lets you input what you eat, and correlates that with how much you fart. They appear to be on track to fail miserably. Apparently, they couldn't find that many people who are seriously self-conscious about their flatulence. ODiN - World's first projection mouse A laser projection trackpad which looks like the Decepticon insignia. Kind of like those laser projection keyboards that have been around for several years now and never achieved meaningful popularity, most likely because they require a dimly lit room and can't track your fingers accurately enough for practical typing. Cockmaster has a new favorite as of 02:53 on May 2, 2015 |
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Remember that guy who spent way too much money remodeling his apartment with a Star Trek theme? These guys want to buy the place so that it might be preserved, but haven't offered any detailed explanation as to what they plan on doing if they should actually get it: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1200264707/buy-a-star-trek-replica-apartment?ref=category
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Evil Fluffy posted:The kickstarter has been suspended. 4 million dollars, suspended. They've already switched over to Indiegogo: https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/the-skarp-laser-razor-21st-century-shaving#/ What they've shown looks like it theoretically could be a worthwhile product if they could just crank up the power a bit. I mean, does it really have to run off a AAA battery?
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stillvisions posted:For kickstarters, not necessarily awful but interesting: If there's anything awful about that one, it's listing "A Troll in Central Park" as one of their major achievements.
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So now that Kickstarter has their "working prototype" policy, I guess we'll have to go to Indiegogo to see wannabe inventors sell their questionable ideas. Like these guys, who think they can cram a complete CPAP machine into a tiny thing that sits under your nose: https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/airing-the-first-hoseless-maskless-micro-cpap#/ And if that wasn't implausible enough, they're planning to sell them for $3 each as one-time-use devices (like a vibrating cock ring).
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https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/ibreathe-fresh-air-anytime-anywhere--3#/ Fresh air any time, anywhere... which is just going to diffuse back into the surrounding atmosphere, thus having no real effect on the quality of air you actually breathe. Remember that Bluetooth-enabled water bottle? How's this for something that probably doesn't need to connect to a smart phone? https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/700989404/looncup-the-worlds-first-smart-menstrual-cup/description Crust First posted:I sure wish I had a magic USB powered cutting board. Crust First posted:Some kind of... magic usb drive. I wonder how Kickstarter's "working prototype rule would affect them. At least the laser razor thing showed a laser cutting hair (just way too slowly to be practical).
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neongrey posted:Nah, this is lousy in different ways-- like the fact that it has a non-rechargeable non-replaceable battery life of six months. Menstrual cups last at least six years. How feasible would it be to build a reliable watertight battery compartment into such a small space? Though I suppose there's also wireless charging. And speaking of batteries, both Kickstarter and Indiegogo regularly have people trying to get into the electric bike industry. This generally involves some attempt at innovation which, when you think about it, would offer little to no real-world improvement over the many e-bikes readily available today. Such as this: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/reveloflex/flex-smartest-folding-electric-bike-that-fits-you?ref=nav_search They brag about their "pedal assist" feature, which consists of pedals mounted directly to the front wheel like a child's tricycle. If you've ever so much as looked at someone riding a bike, you'll know that there's no way you can get any real torque in like that. Or this "solar powered" bike where the solar power comes from some little carport-like thing (if you commute via bike, there's a good chance you live somewhere where you wouldn't have the outdoor space for it): https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/xkuty-one-the-ibike-made-for-iphone#/
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fishmech posted:Anyone remember that typewriter stand for the iPad that got Kickstartered? Instead of a type head to strike against ink and paper, it would spring a Stylus thing at your iPad screen where the matching virtual keyboard key was. iOS supports custom keyboard apps, yes? Just write an app to put the keys wherever's convenient for the typewriter thing. Meanwhile, the Roboroach, the thing advertising DIY cockroach cyber-surgery, appears to be doing healthy business: https://backyardbrains.com/products/roboroach
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Popular Human posted:The funny thing about this is you can buy a device called an Alphasmart Neo right now that does 99% of what this thing does (except it looks like an ugly green-gray brick instead of a 'cool' hipstery typewriter) for $30. To be fair, the Hemmingwrite's e-ink screen looks like it might be easier on the eyes than that little 90's-era LCD display.
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