Tag: Crowdfunding
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Pebble Time Round Kickstarter Edition is Launched
Pebble Time has gotten even more stylish thanks to a new Kickstarter backers exclusive. The Pebble Time Round is based on the original Time – which itself is the fashionable sibling to the original Pebble smartwatch, however this one comes with a more traditionally shaped circular face and is available in both Polished Gold and […]
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New Pebble Smartwatch to Be Announced Tomorrow?
The company behind Kickstarter phenomenon Pebble is teasing something on Twitter and has launched a website so that smartwatch fans can register to be first to find out what it’s all about tomorrow (Tuesday 24th May) at 10AM EDT (2PM GMT). The original Pebble was released around four years ago after obliterating its crowd-funding goal […]
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Game-to-Movie Director Uwe Boll Goes Postal After Crowdfunding Fail
German film director Uwe Boll has exploded with a pair of YouTube videos after a number of attempts to get his movies made through crowd-funding sites flopped. The film-maker who “specialises” in video game adaptations released the videos when he couldn’t raise the $100,000 he was asking for to produce Rampage 3: No Mercy and […]
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Pebble Time Reaches Kickstarter Funding in One Day
After crowdfunding success on Kickstarter brought the original Pebble smartwatch to the wearables market, a new colour screen model called the Pebble Time will also become a reality after annihilating its $500,000 goal in less than a day. The makers of Pebble (Pebble Technology Corporation) reported one million sales of its original wrist companion in […]
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Childhood is Reborn with Sinclair ZX Spectrum Vega on IndieGoGo
Welcome to the latest instalment of our new infrequent feature which we’re calling Techstarters. Through these articles the Gadget Helpline will introduce you to some of the ground-breaking and head-scratching technical discoveries hoping to gain financial backing on Kickstarter and similar crowd-funding websites. Today’s is one for the nostalgic gamers, and you’d better believe the Sinclair […]
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Levitating Om/One Speaker Launching Soon
Crowdfunding has brought some amazing concepts into reality, as anyone can fund projects that appeal to them whenever they want. It’s becoming one of the best ways to get your idea funded and on the market, and in the case of the Om/One levitating Bluetooth speaker, this strategy has indeed paid off. The speaker itself […]
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Kickstarter Reaches $1 Billion in pledges
Kickstarter, for those of you who don’t know, is a crowdfunding website for innovating projects. It’s basically a site where people pitch ideas they have and others can choose to give them money in the hope they use it to create the final product which the ‘backer’ will eventually receive. Why is this newsworthy? Kickstarter […]
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Kickstarter to Kick Off in the United Kingdom – Finance Your Own Project This Autumn
A Tweet has revealed that the American-born Kickstarter website will be opened up to users in the U.K this autumn – giving entrepreneurs on this side of the pond a chance to pitch their projects to the online public – or “Backers” – grab their interest and gain crucial funding to get their plans off […]