An Australian father and son team has exceeded their crowdfunding target 150 times over, raising over 11 million US dollars (and counting) for their revolutionary new beehive design that promises ‘honey-on-tap’. Current beekeeping methods involve hours of work in removing frames of honeycomb from a hive, removing the wax cap from the top of the comb and […]
Clay Hebert thinks gatekeepers are a good idea – but only up to a point: “I’m glad that there are gatekeepers for pilots and for surgeons, but in this entrepreneurial world – entrepreneurs and creative endeavours – we give the gatekeepers too much power” Clay sees crowdfunding as a challenge to the historic stranglehold of gatekeepers on creative projects, […]
This looks like a simple idea at first and it is. Then you realise it has a million* unique applications! Touchpico is a pocket-sized Android device without a screen. Instead it has a built in projector which throws up an 80-inch image on a surface such as a wall. But it also comes with an infrared stylus – are you getting […]
Take a tablet, and give it the ability to orient itself: to twist in your direction when you speak, to recognise and track faces and use a speech interface. You’ve got a robot! It won’t make the tea for you, or clean the bathroom, but Jibo looks like it could be a real leap forward for a user interface […]
Remember the entire Tesla vs Edison thing a couple of months back? Shortly after that The Oatmeal started a fund on IndieGogo to help buy Tesla’s old workshop in Shoreham, New York – the Wardenclyffe tower and surrounding land. Earlier this evening they announced that they’d signed the paperwork for the deal: It's official: we […]
Crowdfunding is a cool concept, but what happens to all those products when they become available to buy? How can you find them easily? Outgrow.me tries to solve this with its marketplace of crowdfunded products from Kickstarter and IndieGoGo. You can search by “tag” or sort by availability ie. available to buy now vs. accepting pre-orders […]
