Kickstarter

We’ve been hearing a lot about motion tracking as of late, the Leap Motion being the most popular device that is making its way to the public. However, a new mechanism is looking to gain some ground and has popped up on Kickstarter. The DUO 3D sensor claims to be the “world’s first and only DIY 3D...

The conspiracy theories swirling around a seemingly benign crowdfunding campaign turned into a tornado over the weekend. Crave's Eric Mack investigates. [Read more]

Parents today are all faced with the delicate task of introducing their children to computer technology and the Internet without overexposing them to the many dangers therein. ZeroDesktop, Inc. is developing a solution to that problem in the form of a mini Android-based PC called the MiiPC, and its...

Kickstarter might be about to launch the closest thing we've seen yet to a fully-packaged Android PC, with the MiiPC kicking off its pledge period today. The MiiPC's big selling point is its family-friendly approach, but we're more interested in the fact that this is a plug-in-and-play box running...

From an economic perspective, the fall of 2008 brought dark days all over the world. But one of the hardest-hit places was Iceland, the Nordic European country whose entire financial system went into a deep freeze after a rapid and systemic collapse of its banking system. But two young Icelandic...

Mackenzie Wilson's older brothers said she couldn't raise $829 for a game design camp for kids. They were right. She's raised more $16,000. [Read more]

To celebrate the beginning of the PAX East gaming convention this weekend, Kickstarter has announced that the crowd-sourcing project website has surpassed $100 million pledged towards various game projects. Thanks to over 630,000 backers over the past four years, 1,476 gaming projects were able to...

Crowd funding works Since crowd-funding website and service Kickstarter launched in 2009, a staggering $108.52 million (?71.45 million) has been pledged to games projects, both video and tabletop. And of that, $90.83 million (?59.8 million) went towards successful projects - projects that met their...

Our readership is overwhelmingly male, young, highly-educated, works all the time and is childless. So five– maybe ten– of you will get why this new Kickstarter product is so fucking awesome . But one day– if you have kids– you’ll get it. Oh, will you get it. Kyle Myers has developed something...

Crowdfunding has led to a number of high profile consumer product launches in recent years. At the same time, it’s lead to more disappointments stemming from delays and unfulfilled promises. The issue, which is especially acute for the most successful fundraisers, is that it’s incredibly difficult...