Fans of nineties TV animation Biker Mice from Mars have an opportunity to help turn the franchise into a mobile game, thanks to a Kickstarter launched by an Irish company yesterday. Galway-based game developers 9th Impact beat off international competition last year to get the licence to develop a Biker Mice game for Android and iOS. They’ve been working […]
Check out this great idea currently on Kickstarter, by Dublin designer Steve Killian. Like many great inventions, it started with a personal ‘itch’. Using a clever yet simple geometric design, this convenient stand supports a range of laptops and tablets, raising them to a comfortable elevation, for best results when working with an external keyboard. The […]
New on Kickstarter is CounterCrop, a garden on your countertop developed by Intelligent Light Source (ILS), a San Diego start-up. ILS’s advanced LED lighting products are currently installed at MIT’s CityFarm project to study sustainable indoor agriculture at scale. The company claims that growing indoors uses 70-90% less water, saves energy, and provides a viable solution […]
This is stupid – and it’s funny. It’s funny, and it’s one of the stupidest crowdfunding ideas I’ve ever seen. Blood Sport is a device that drains a video game players blood into sterile bags for donation, whenever that player loses virtual blood in a game. The aim is “to make blood donation fun”. It’s sponsors call it […]
This idea is astonishing in its simplicity – so much so that I can’t believe it hasn’t been done before. Circuit Scribe is a product from ElectronInks, who developed a silver-based non-toxic ink that dries instantly and conducts electricity. Do you see the potential? Instead of drawing a circuit and then building it on a breadboard, you […]
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, […]
Thin Lizzy and Flann O’Brien. The Abbey Theatre and the Havok game engine. Dylan Moran and Dracula and the original Mr. Tayto. What are you going to create? Kickstarter, the New York based crowdfunding service for arts and creative projects has announced that it is now open to projects based in Ireland (and also Denmark, Norway and […]
An Irish company has a unique new take on wearable computing which could revolutionise how we work out and relax. Lumafit is the brainchild of Darran Hughes and Steven Hughes who realised that the wrist is the wrong place to monitor exercise: there’s just too much going on there. Instead, the Lumafit is worn behind the ear, tracking the movement […]
Crowdfunding has led to some exciting and wonderful projects which would never otherwise be possible. And then there are others …
Native Union only needed $40,000 to fund their Kickstarter project for a battery-booster built into a USB cable – but they’ve already cleared $137,000 in a matter of hours and there’s still 30 days to go! The simplest ideas are the best, of course – by which I mean: things that help to solve a […]
