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Skyridge posted:I must be crazy because that looks perfectly reasonable to me, if a bit too "everything but the kitchen sink" ish Except he's done nothing to show that he's capable of actually producing anything like what he's advertising. The only image shown in the page is the company name - none of the expensive drawings and models he claims to have.
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pairofdimes posted:So instead of using tried and true ways of building a bike entirely out of metal, instead they will build a bike that still needs metal parts, except they're all custom since they have to interface with bamboo pieces. Also it introduces a ton of points of failure where the metal attaches to bamboo. And more points of failure is exactly what you don't want when you're out in the parts of Africa these people were thinking about when they got started.
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Serak posted:From an engineering perspective I'm sceptical of how you accurately or reliably measure 'movement and vaginal contractions' from a device specifically designed to vibrate. The vibrations produced by the device are a known quantity - it should actually be pretty simple to filter those out.
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NESguerilla posted:I'd buy that thing if it was like 20 bucks. I suppose there's the possibility that if this thing performs as advertised, it could get noticed by one of the major manufacturers and mass produced. And it sounds like they've given at least some thought to the problem of keeping it clean: quote:You open the top and and fill with water and a drop of dish soap.Then you press and hold the on/off button for two seconds and it enters cleaning mode. For the next ten minutes the unit heats up to 155 degrees. All of the parts that come in contact with the butter are heated all the way up to the nozzle itself. After 10 minutes, you simply activate the spray to flush the soap and water through the nozzle, empty any remaining soapy water from the main chamber and flush the spray again with clean water, and you are ready to go.
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Foxhound posted:It took them one year to design a white box. You forgot the kitchen timer in the lid, in case you have trouble figuring out when you're done with whatever you didn't want your phone distracting you from.
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Mumpy Puffinz posted:kickstarter would be good if they gave a percentage of the profits to their investors. Wouldn't that mean having to comply with volume upon volume of financial regulations?
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RandomPauI posted:The thinking is it uses less power than the regular screen even if it stays on all the time. It also acts like another battery. So you get all the perks of the phone always on and running without the high power consumption. That's assuming it's a legit product. Even so, it'd be a niche product. Plus it'd be useless outside apps specifically written to take advantage of it.
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stillvisions posted:Maybe they also fixed the problem where you don't align the slats right and suddenly litter is pouring out of the bottom. If they're smart at least the new one has unique holes for each tray so you can't do that - the old one didn't. Actually, their video specifically addressed that - they have tabs to ensure that the pieces can't be stacked the wrong way around.
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Germstore posted:Alternatively: To be fair, 1920x1080 resolution for $190 is a substantial improvement over the portable projectors at Brookstone. Assuming they manage to release it, that is.
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Someone's trying to take the hemp crusade to new heights: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/worldsfirsthempplane/the-worlds-first-hemp-plane-from-imagination-to-in?ref=nav_search quote:The Hemp Plane is not just another plane and no you can't smoke it. You can fly high in the sky with it, though. Hemp is up to 10x stronger than fiberglass and leaves virtually a zero footprint on the environment. Hemp is one of the strongest most durable fibers on earth. With over 25,000 applications it is also one of the most versatile fibers in the world as well. It sounds like they're simply substituting hemp for fiberglass or carbon for composites. Given what else has been done with hemp, it sounds more or less plausible. Though what is this likely to accomplish? Is the production of fiberglass and carbon fiber that great a threat to the environment? Is there any chance this will change anyone's mind about hemp, given that the only people still calling for continued prohibition are stuck-up shitbags who handwave away logic and reason as mindless liberal idealism? And someone else is trying https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1642947129/hemphome-tiny?ref=nav_search
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Zaphod42 posted:They weren't dickheads. You're a dummy if you think your kickstarter is an "investment" with any return, and plenty of other kickstarters have had later rounds of funding or used the kickstarter to get further investment. You get what you were promised and nobody that I know of has ever really gone much further than that, maybe a little bonus thingy. Plus it seems they've achieved their overall goal of giving virtual reality another chance, what with the Vive and PSVR and all that. And as I recall, there was some discussion of the idea of offering profit shares for crowdfunding. It turns out that within the financial regulations of pretty much every developed country, that would either be outright illegal or a bureaucratic clusterfuck of Biblical proportions.
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A year and a half ago, someone tried doing a Kickstarter for yet another questionable attempt at revolutionizing personal transportation. It got some interest but not enough to meet their goal: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/234551142/movpak-the-worlds-first-backpack-electric-vehicle?ref=nav_search Now, they're trying again on Indiegogo (with flexible funding, of course): https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/movpak-electric-vehicle-backpack-in-one#/
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And now they're asking backers to email the Canadian authorities to remind them that laws regarding fraud and embezzlement do, in fact, apply to Kickstarter-born businesses: http://www.peachyprinter.com/#!take-action/copfx I looked at their website several months ago, and it appeared that they were on track - they had even added a proper USB interface, abandoning their crazy idea of controlling the machine through the audio port.
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HoverBars – Handles for your Hoverboard https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/hoverbars/hoverbars?ref=category quote:We don't make hoverboards. We make hoverboards safer. Sure, in a manner which: a. Makes them way less portable b. Does fuckall to address the main safety issue with these things (that is, the lithium ion batteries made in the Chinese tradition of "quality control is for losers")
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Zaphod42 posted:Yeah there was a whole fleet of non-hovering "hoverboards" that came out in the last couple years, I thought it was real dumb. But that's the point? They're trying to use the fake cool name of hovering to sell something that is most assuredly not cool. I've often wondered how the name "hoverboard" first got attached to a cheap Segway-scooter hybrid. quote:Yeah there's this and there's one other one too that somebody made which actually hovers, but it has to be cooled by liquid nitrogen constantly so you can't use it for more than like 5 minutes tops at a time and it costs a fortune just to use it. There's also this one which uses dozens of little ducted fans, letting it operate like the hoverboards from "Back to the Future" (much more so than anything previously called a hoverboard, at least): http://www.arcaspace.com/en/arcaboard.htm http://www.gizmag.com/arcaboard-hoverboard-arca-aerospace/41063/ ...for about six minutes until the battery runs down. Oh, and it weighs about 180 pounds, so you'd better be near an outlet when that happens. Then you get to wait six hours to recharge the battery, unless you bought the $4500 quick-charger. Plus the board itself costs almost twice as much as the Hendo. Cockmaster has a new favorite as of 02:34 on May 25, 2016 |
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Yet another attempt at driving down the cost of hobbyist 3D printing, this time to a record low $49: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/101hero/101hero-the-world-first-us49-3d-printer?ref=category In their photos, you can clearly see the cheap plastic parts which make up the machine's structure. You cannot, however, see much of anything that would meaningfully demonstrate the sort of print quality it's capable of. Popular Human posted:I still can't believe the Freewrite both exists and made a profit. $500 for a pretentious hipster typewriter that can't charge off USB. Meanwhile you can get an Alphasmart Neo off eBay for $30 and it's built like a tank and lasts a solid month on two AA batteries. They should have just bought a pallet of them and shipped one to anyone who paid good money for that garbage. An e-ink screen does seem like a legitimately useful feature for something like that. Leaving out the arrow keys and spell check, not so much.
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Platystemon posted:Plus the Freewrite has individual keyswitches, which is the kind of thing the “eccentric” writer target demo craves. You can’t put a price on ~art~. Mechanical keyboards are legitimately good to have for serious typing. The problem is that some of them are a bit too loud for a device meant to be used out in public.
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https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/lactate-threshold/lvl-the-first-wearable-hydration-monitor?ref=category_popular It's one of those fitness monitor watch things, but they claim it measures how hydrated you are. Would anyone know if that's technically possible by any means?
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