Category: Crowdfunding
Extend phone photography talents with exchangeable lenses from Lensta
With the Fisheye Lensta, you can get some pretty interesting results such as this picture of a Springer Spaniel puppy in her crate I love the iPhone 7, but sometimes smartphone photography can seem a bit limiting creatively, at least compared to digital SLR photography. While there's no doubt that phone…
Add 360 degree video/images to Android smartphone with Insta360Air camera
This looks like fun. It's a 360 degree camera that clips onto your Android smartphone. Called the Insta360Air, the camera can shoot 360 degree images and video that can either be livestreamed or shared instantly on social media. The device can also be used as a 360 webcam which users connect to their laptops via…
Creator iOT kit goes live on Kickstarter
You can't move for announcements about the iOT (Internet of Things) these days with the number of devices connected to the net expected to reach an astonishing 25 billion by the end of 2015, according to Cisco. But this product from Imagination Technologies - the third biggest semi-conductor IP company in the world - caught our…
OXY launches smart watches on Indiegogo November 17th
This looks interesting. It's a smart watch from Bristol-based company OXY which has been designed to look and feel like an ordinary watch. Capable of being connected to virtually every modern smartphone - whether it is running on Android, iOS or Windows 10 - OXY is an open source project in collaboration with Ingenic Semiconductors. Available…
Could this Kingii wearable help to prevent drowning? Indiegogo campaign raises $400K in 2 days
It doesn't seem you can go a day without some new wearable asking for money on crowdfunding websites like Kickstarter or Indiegogo. But here's one that promises to be more useful than most - in fact so useful it might actually save your life one day. Called Kingii, it's a device that claims to help…
Yota Phone 2 is world’s first dual screen smartphone and e-reader
Mobile phone company Yota has developed what it's claiming is the world's first dual-screen always-on smartphone. Combining the features of a premium Android smartphone with the benefits of an Electronic Paper Display so you don't have to carry two devices around with you, the Yota Phone 2 has, at the time of writing, attracted over $176,000…
ReVault seeks funding for world’s first wearable cloud from Indiegogo
Hardly a day goes by without a new tech company looking for crowdfunding from Kickstarter or Indiegogo. But here's one that caught our eye. Billed as the world's first wearable private cloud it's essentially a watch that can store all your files from various devices without having to be connected to the internet. Potentially perfect…
The Digest: Serial breaks iTunes record… and 4 other things people are talking about today
[nextpage title="Next"] Murder mystery podcast Serial breaks download records | The Telegraph "A podcast about a real-life murder presented in a format that its creator says is 'as old as Dickens' has become the fastest ever to pass five million downloads. The podcast, which issues weekly 40-minute episodes, is a spin-off from broadcasting sensation This…
The Digest: Charlie Brooker on Gamergate… and 4 other things people are talking about this morning
[nextpage title="Next"] Gamergate: the internet is the toughest game in town – if you’re playing as a woman, says the Guardian's Charlie Brooker: "There seems to be a small yet vocal core of maniacs bafflingly resistant to the notion that women should have any say in the games industry at all. Even recent statistics indicating…
GoFundMe’s Ferguson controversy raises more questions about the limits of internet speech
Over $200,000 has been raised on crowdfunding platform GoFundMe in support of Officer Darren Wilson, the police officer who shot Michael Brown, which has led to the widespread and well publicised unrest in Ferguson, Missouri. The fund was started on August 17th and apparently the proceeds will go to Wilson and his family to pay…