The amount is a record for a crowdfunded video game, and one of the largest for any crowdfunded project.
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While Lifepowr has crowdfunded and shipped a product before, you should exercise the same caution you normally would with a crowdfunded product.
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On the next big financial innovation: "There's a lot more interest in investing in crowdfunded vehicles; you can even have crowdfunded IPOs now," Altucher said.
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As with any crowdfunded product, there's always some risk involved.
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Like most crowdfunded products, the Tiny1 isn't quite ready yet.
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Turing Phone is TRI's first smart phone and entirely crowdfunded.
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In this case, Arcade City users crowdfunded the driver's expenses.
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The accelerator consults with crowdfunded brands, from conception to completion.
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As for the usual risks of supporting a crowdfunded product?
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Even with full corporate support, crowdfunded campaigns can't make it.
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Crowdfunded donations are also being accepted through a Crowdrise campaign.
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The company's crowdfunded campaign raised $53,957 — twice of its $25,000 goal.
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Remember the controversial crowdfunded wall built along the New Mexico border?
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At the time of writing, Miller's crowdfunded campaign had raised £324,844.
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The Vaultek is a connected safe that's being crowdfunded on Indiegogo.
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Moment is being crowdfunded on its website and starts at $129.
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Crowdpac, a venture-backed attempt to create crowdfunded political candidates similar to how Kickstarter creates crowdfunded consumer products, is telling clients on Tuesday that it will be closing next month after failing to secure additional money.
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Now, we all know that sometimes crowdfunded games just don't work out.
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Crowdfunded vehicles aren't unheard of, but they're pretty rare, and historically unsuccessful.
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This new crowdfunded watch features a digital readout with quartz analog movement.
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With the crowdfunded Kicksat-2, Manchester and his collaborators are trying again.
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The crowdfunded sequel is set to be released in cinemas on Apr.
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And crowdfunded hardware startups are likely to be working against the clock.
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It's also accepting crowdfunded donations to the project with a Crowdrise campaign.
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So, first of all, I never considered that we crowdfunded these records.
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As Eurogamer discovered in a June investor note, the console will be crowdfunded.
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The entrepreneur who crowdfunded a balance board for standing desk workers thinks so.
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As always, Knops a crowdfunded project, so use your best judgement before backing.
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Today, crowdfunded products aren't met with as much enthusiasm as they once did.
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As with many crowdfunded projects, be aware of the risks that come with.
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Tough luck, because there's no sign that it'll be crowdfunded in other markets.
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Within the category of tech, are particular crowdfunded projects getting attention from investors?
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In short, it's gotten more popular and more dangerous to back crowdfunded projects.
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It's rare to find a crowdfunded watch with the right balance of features.
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"The first-ever crowdfunded sporting event in France to our knowledge," Armitage said.
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Yet several prominent crowdfunded video games have failed to live up to expectations.
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She cites, for example, the indie platform Mastodon, which is crowdfunded and decentralized.
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As is always the case with crowdfunded gadgets, use your best judgement before backing.
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And Democrats have already crowdfunded nearly $3 million to support Collins' eventual Democratic challenger.
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While Bitcoin's development was stalling, Ethereum powered an entire new class of crowdfunded startups.
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The Opal ice maker, FirstBuild's second crowdfunded product, significantly exceeded its $150,000 funding target.
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Other stores stock crowdfunded gadgets, but not as their main vision and selling point.
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That's why I like the perfect storm of crowdfunded watch magic called the Scuro.
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Once there, she crowdfunded the money to return to New Zealand via cargo ship.
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Of course, the crowdfunded play couldn't specifically name Kalanick or Uber for legal reasons.
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There's so little money available that the aforementioned E. coli research is being crowdfunded.
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It's a site were Sony gadgets could be crowdfunded, thus bring them to market.
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The Cubike is a crowdfunded foldable electric kickscooter that collapses into really small package.
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The shorts are also an allegory for modern existence, and they are being crowdfunded.
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Mogees successfully crowdfunded its sensor for musicians that turns any object into an instrument.
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The attacks seemed somehow to have been outsourced, the costs of the aggression crowdfunded.
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This scam ad is trying to sell the unreleased crowdfunded Indiegogo product for $43.
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Facebook had just acquired the crowdfunded Oculus Rift virtual reality headset for $2 billion.
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However, this knowledge gap problem shouldn't be down to a crowdfunded museum to fix.
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Now the GoFundMe page for his cause is asking for $500,000 in crowdfunded donations.
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Beoncam, another crowdfunded device, seems to be the most direct competitor with similar functionality.
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Amanda Morales crowdfunded $25,000 for the relief organization that serves the Coast Guard community.
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Just remember: this is still a Kickstarter, and there are always risks with crowdfunded projects.
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The Mi Drone 1080 will be crowdfunded in the Mi Home app beginning May 26.
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That said, this is the first product from the group, and it's also being crowdfunded.
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That's right ... the guys crowdfunded on Kickstarter and raised nearly $100k to get it done.
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Last year the company successful crowdfunded $125,000 to deliver just bamboo sheets to 500 backers.
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A store solely dedicated to real, crowdfunded products is opening in the US this year.
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Scott Santens is a writer and basic income advocate with a crowdfunded monthly basic income.
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LightSail 2196 is a crowdfunded project run by the Planetary Society, a nonprofit space organization.
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Entrepreneur Claudio crowdfunded a pile of seeds at the tender age of featherless and blind.
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Mike Elk is a labor reporter and founder of the crowdfunded labor publication Payday Report.
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Remember, though: Kickstarter projects aren't necessarily sales, and issues with crowdfunded projects are extremely common.
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Mr. Johnstone compares crowdfunded gun buybacks to volunteering for beach cleanups and at soup kitchens.
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In May, 25 civil rights groups crowdfunded $400,000 to bail out mothers stuck in pretrial detention.
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His case is grossly simplified, for instance, in a project a pair of artists recently crowdfunded.
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Cocksedge crowdfunded its production, and went on to sell more than 10,000 of the little heptahedrons.
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Super Troopers 2, the crowdfunded sequel to the cult 2001 comedy, has made only $30.6 million.
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Ultimately, when it comes to any crowdfunded device, it's always important to use your best judgement.
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But the list focuses on companies that raised angel, venture and, in some cases, crowdfunded rounds.
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A crowdfunding accelerator helps companies that have a fully developed prototype execute a successful crowdfunded campaign.
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The risks involved with backing a crowdfunded product don't magically disappear when funding goals are reached.
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But Pebble, with it's history of making good on crowdfunded promises, was supposed to be different.
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Lots of crowdfunded gadgets have failed to ship, and, anecdotally, backers seem to be losing enthusiasm.
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Google's first in-house router operates at the same level as a year-old crowdfunded device.
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Some members have started a crowdfunded campaign to support him, should he sue Google and fail.
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The cult favourite had earlier this year acquired Nextbit, maker of the crowdfunded Android smartphone Robin.
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The launch of the magazine is currently being crowdfunded on Kickstarter through the end of March.
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N California This pin is crowdfunded, which means it's even more millennial friendly than other pins.
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An Indiegogo darling, this crowdfunded guitar is now shipping and costs $999 in maple and rosewood.
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He says he'll manage it full time, and he has so far crowdfunded $1,480 for it.
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The filmmakers plan to produce additional dispatches, and they started a crowdfunded effort for that purpose.
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Margulis said she doesn't know of anyone who crowdfunded their honeymoon and divorce on the site.
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Just under 90 percent of crowdfunded campaigns raising more than $743 million were male-led campaigns.
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Unlike their 3D-printed state at last year's event, the crowdfunded earpieces are now ready to ship.
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Bobbitt told The Inquirer that he believes D'Amico may have gambled away some of the crowdfunded money.
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Bad Rap, a 2016 crowdfunded documentary about four Asian-American rappers trying to overcome music industry preconceptions.
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While I wouldn't call 2016 the Year of the Crowdfunded Gadget, this year exposed crowdfunding's inherent weaknesses.
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The TappLock is one such lock that was crowdfunded on Indiegogo and is now available to buy.
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Just like the company's first instant camera, the Lomo'Instant, the Instant Square is being crowdfunded on Kickstarter.
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It's when using this app that you'll remember Mighty's crowdfunded roots — and not in a good way.
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Image via APIt's a well established fact that backing a crowdfunded campaign is like playing with fire.
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It will initially be available through Kickstarter, so the usual risks of backing crowdfunded products apply here.
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Madsen and von Bengtson were among them, occupying a hangar, and financing Copenhagen Suborbitals with crowdfunded donations.
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The bikes won't ship until September, and of course we're talking about a crowdfunded hardware company here.
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You've currently crowd funded a project of tintype photographs, and in the past, crowdfunded films as well.
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Crowdfunded on Kickstarter last year, Lofelt's wrist-mountable subwoofer is shipping to its backers as we speak.
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The latest crowdfunded project from Anita Sarkeesian's Feminist Frequency showcases remarkable women across time, cultures, and backgrounds.
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A Sidney-award winning labor reporter, Mike Elk is founder of the crowdfunded labor publication Payday Report.
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Our team was running a crowdfunded initiative to target the foreign assets of Yanukovych and his associates.
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There are two kinds of crowdfunded watches – fashion accessories and real efforts at classical design and workmanship.
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In the general election in 2017, we crowdfunded £500,000 for more than 50 candidates across five political parties.
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You can find multiple crowdfunded gadgets in more conventional retail stores, too, like Apple, Best Buy, or Target.
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In our monthly Rise and Fall column we look back at crowdfunded gadgets that reached their funding goal.
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As TC's resident watch hound I like to try to find you all a few interesting crowdfunded timepieces.
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Watch the video above to learn what crowdfunded hits really say about crowdfunding, beyond the money-focused headlines.
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The Skyscraper Art Deco Watch is a new crowdfunded piece by horologist Mark Carson and designer Richard Paige.
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And his next release, the crowdfunded Thimbleweed Park, looks a lot like the classics that defined his career.
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Knyackare successfully crowdfunded 533,120SEK ($58,811) in just a few months to hold the inaugural Statement Festival in August.
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But will the impact of this patent be felt beyond the shuttering of one crowdfunded VR porn game?
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Description: Shenzhen-based STEM kit maker Makeblock crowdfunded this emotive, programmable bot geared towards younger kids on Kickstarter.
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PicoBrew is known for its crowdfunded devices that make brewing beer or spirits at home a little easier.
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But that being said, I do have a YouTube series in the works currently being crowdfunded through Patreon.
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"'MR WEINSTEIN WILL SEE YOU NOW' is a crowdfunded artistic battlecry made by over 60 women," she wrote.
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Crowdfunded projects that finished in April appear at CES in January as a sort of coming-out party.
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Pay it Furloughed is a crowdfunded website that lets anyone donate a beer for an impacted federal worker.
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Though a number of crowdfunded sex toys have ultimately proven impotent, there have been a few stunning successes.
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Set to be released this summer, the crowdfunded book collects those drawings, along with additional pieces by Hess.
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It took some time, however, for Mr. Whitelum to wrap his head around the idea of being crowdfunded.
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As of December 18, Forstater had crowdfunded £83,000 ($109,000) to cover her legal expenses via the CrowdJustice platform.
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Given that Ebo is currently raising funds on Kickstarter, our usual qualifications and warnings apply for crowdfunded projects.
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Long-serving dark humour webcomic Cyanide and Happiness is releasing its very first video game, successfully crowdfunded on Kickstarter.
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"Dream R" is the standout track off Italian-born composer Maria Chiara Argirò's crowdfunded debut album, The Fall Dance.
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They said they gave Bobbitt more than half of the crowdfunded money, but are withholding about $200,000 from him.
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One of the earliest entrants into this field is Hum, a crowdfunded vibrator that recently made its official debut.
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And more recently, the crowdfunded Smart Buckle cleverly fit an entire fitness tracker into a standard watch band buckle.
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CrowdPac goes one step further, not just matching your values to political parties, but crowdfunded individual causes, as well.
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Mashable Australia spoke to Dowling over email about the creative process behind his project, currently being crowdfunded on Kickstarter.
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As always with crowdfunded hardware, it's important to be aware that the company has never shipped a product before.
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Mass Fidelity successfully ran an earlier Indiegogo campaign for the original Core, but the usual crowdfunded warnings still apply.
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New York-based hardware startup AfterShokz may have come the closest with its line of crowdfunded Trekz wireless headphones.
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"We're not the first people to have crowdfunded a restaurant, although it's still a pretty new idea," says Oliver.
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It was crowdfunded into existence in 2017 when more than 1,000 members of the public donated almost £50,000 ($65,000).
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Put off by what he perceived as stalling, Mr. Best crowdfunded $15,000 to print, scan and publish files himself.
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Both crowdfunded docks can also serve as USB-C to HDMI dongle for other devices, like a computer or tablet.
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And yes, Nyko — with an established supply chain — likely can afford to make a cheaper product than the crowdfunded startups.
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We had "Lazer Team" screenings in theaters in 103 different cities and set the record for crowdfunded theatrical release, too.
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As with all crowdfunded projects, though, we'll have to wait and see if Remo will deliver on all its promises.
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So Hammerhead crowdfunded its first product, the H1, and subsequently built Karoo, a "cycling computer" that supports navigation and training.
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As always, use your best judgment when backing crowdfunded products, as they can experience delays or fail to ship completely.
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So I had already decided to buy a better air purifier, just not on buying one that had been crowdfunded!
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Ring began as a humble crowdfunded project called Doorbot — a Wi-Fi-enabled video doorbell that enabled two-way communication.
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Final units are expected to arrive next July, which isn't always encouraging to see on a crowdfunded project like this.
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The usual Kickstarter risks apply here, even for a company that's successfully brought a crowdfunded product to the market before.
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DonorsChoose allows teachers to ask for crowdfunded donations to give their classrooms books, educational technology, field trip assistance, and more.
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Nextbit, maker of the crowdfunded Android smartphone Robin, has been acquired by Razer, the companies said in a statement Monday.
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Hoffman said in his article that he will match five times the crowdfunded amount to donate up to $5 million.
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Jill Stein has now crowdfunded more than $4.5 million to cover the costs of election recounts in Wisconsin and Pennsylvania.
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And in Early 2016, the company behind another kids' smartwatch, the crowdfunded HereO, was accused of improperly securing kids' data.
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Normally we approach crowdfunded hardware with a fair amount of skepticism, given just how hard it is to make hardware.
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The new Kickstarter Collection is now available at Amazon Launchpad, the company's digital storefront for hardware startups and crowdfunded projects.
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In advance of the last warm weekend I present a pretty cool crowdfunded watch that might be worth a look.
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A 2012 law opened up the rules for crowdfunded investments, but Republicans say the rules still need to be tweaked.
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The Triibe, which runs a more lightweight operation, also crowdfunded and is banking long-term growth, in part, on grants.
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The museum was crowdfunded into existence in 653 when more than 1,000 members of the public donated almost £50,000 ($65,000).
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This year at fighting game convention Evo it was announced that the annual Capcom Cup would be crowdfunded as well.
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Steven Bannon used crowdfunded cash to build part of President Trump's wall along the U.S.-Mexico border in New Mexico.
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Mark plans to launch hamdog restaurants around the country, but the New York City store will be its only crowdfunded one.
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Lay Waste Games, the company behind Dragoon, crowdfunded the game in 2015, pulling in just under 10 times their initial goal.
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Multiple big names in consumer electronics have crowdfunded products, like Anker, Bose, and ZTE, mostly to build hype and gauge demand.
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Of course, with an expected ship date that's almost a year away, all of the usual caveats about crowdfunded projects apply.
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Back in April, we were forced to acknowledge that the Indiegogo crowdfunded Keyboard Moto Mod was actually a real physical device.
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We've seen crowdfunded projects try to use kinetic charging or solar power to try and pull off a similar trick, too.
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It ships June next year, but as with all crowdfunded projects, there's no guarantee that the company will deliver its products.
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The show started out as a crowdfunded web series, five episodes of which were screened during the 2017 Sundance film festival.
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It broke the record for a crowdfunded game, and attracted the most backers of any project in any category, at 290,000.
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Raising almost $2 million on Indiegogo, this crowdfunded sonic wonder delivers next-generation audio technology to today's on-the-go listeners.
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It turns out that the real movie the scallywags were making was about a team of filmmakers "wasting" the crowdfunded cash.
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That means an average contribution of over $1,300 per backer, which doesn't bode well for the viability of any crowdfunded project.
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Each of the states in the crowdfunded campaign was reportedly chosen because of "statistical anomalies" observed by independent election integrity experts.
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Six years later Molyneux left Lionhead to form his own independent studio, 22cans, which released the troubled crowdfunded strategy game Godus.
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This tone struck a chord with the prospective readers that crowdfunded the book's creation before a single word had been written.
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As a corrective measure, why not support some worthy art projects currently being crowdfunded — like, say, Dread Scott's Slave Rebellion Reenactment?
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Some borrowers will add the crowdfunded equity to their own cash while others may not, depending on how much they get.
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She crowdfunded on Indiegogo and raised $50,000 to travel for another two years and produce a book of her resulting photos.
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Their first crowdfunded venture was 2016 card game Joking Hazard, in which players have compete to finish an awful, awful comic strip.
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The company isn't alone in trying to create a crowdfunded real estate marketplace; among its startup competitors is Fundrise and Realty Mogul.
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It successfully crowdfunded enough money to get a boat and sail with the hopes of disrupting NGOs trying to save stranded refugees.
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The peripatetic lives of these tramp printers, as they were known, are the inspiration for artist Chris Fritton's crowdfunded Itinerant Printer Project.
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The state of the US healthcare system has created a boom in crowdfunded medical campaigns as patients struggle to pay for treatment.
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The DAO was built on Ethereum and raised over 11.5m Ether, as a new type of crowdsourced, crowdfunded investor-directed investment fund.
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The router is attractive, with a sleek design in the style favored by the new class of crowdfunded routers flooding the marketplace.
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Her group had created an app for the smartwatch, which shut down three years after raising millions through a crowdfunded kickstarter campaign.
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According to the U.S. Treasury Department, you can make "unconditional gifts" to the United States — even the Statue of Liberty was crowdfunded!
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The expectation for any crowdfunded product is that backers aren't just buyers—they're encouraged to participate in the process and give feedback.
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Their manager Bill Diggins recently updated the crowdfunded album's Kickstarter page asking fans to leave suggestions: "We need your help…", he wrote.
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It arrived quickly—two months is easily the fastest turnaround I've ever had on a crowdfunded gadget—but the end result sucked.
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Aksamit also crowdfunded her way to Rio de Janeiro after racking up credit card debt paying for her journey on her own.
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A number of Post employees eventually resigned in protest, with some going on to form their own crowdfunded publication, The Colorado Sun.
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Using Kickstarter, Megabots crowdfunded $500,000 to upgrade its robot so it could throw punches and absorb heavy hits from the Japanese Kuratas.
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A Facebook group with more than 4,000 owners of the recalled machines crowdfunded money to hire forensic experts to analyze the fix.
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I especially enjoyed discovering Pear Cider & Cigarettes through the Mondo channel; it's a gorgeous animated film that was originally crowdfunded through Kickstarter.
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Nearly $2 million was provided by We Build the Wall, a group backing Trump that crowdfunded money for the wall, Fisher said.
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In 2015, scientists crowdfunded a campaign to sequence Lil Bub's genome, through which they made discoveries that explained the cat's genetic mutations.
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The Planetary Society just announced a new website that will constantly display the status of the crowdfunded satellite as it orbits the planet.
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You can nab one for $19 on Kickstarter, and it's supposed to ship in December, though every crowdfunded project seems to get delayed.
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It's been a long time coming for Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night, the crowdfunded gothic action game from acclaimed Castlevania director Koji Igarashi.
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Since it's crowdfunded, the usual warnings apply: Smart Bike is a new company that's never shipped a hardware product before, so back accordingly.
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Based in Redwood City, California, Pebble first launched back in 2012 on Kickstarter and gained fame for being a wildly successful crowdfunded project.
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And, as history has proven, even the most enticing crowdfunded consoles can turn out less than successful at best, and disastrous at worst.
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Crowdfunded spacecraft LightSail 2 is also going up on this ride, launched by Bill Nye-led space exploration non-profit The Planetary Society.
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A similar concentration toy, the Fidget Cube, became an all-the-rage desk companion when it was crowdfunded in 2016 by Antsy Labs.
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Launched as a Kickstarter project last year, Luna is now available to everyone, priced at $80 (a $20 markup over the crowdfunded version).
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Brands like DJI offer 4K video and subject tracking, and don't carry the stigma of the Lily brand as yet another crowdfunded Icarus.
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The smart camera Angee — which was crowdfunded in 2015 and is now shipping to backers — is able to rotate a full 360-degrees.
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The transformation between coffee and dining table is made with big city–small spaces in mind in Boulon Blanc's new crowdfunded kinetic furniture.
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The company known for its portable chargers announced and crowdfunded the Liberty+ wireless earbuds last year under a new "Zolo" line of products.
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The idea began life as a crowdfunded project aimed at music fans, but the company now counts deaf gamers among its customers, too.
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In 2017, the tournament's crowdfunded prize purse was more than $24 million, and more than 400,23 people watched the final matches on Twitch.
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One of a number of crowdfunded sequels to classic games, the next Shenmue managed to become the most funded game in Kickstarter's history.
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It's being led by a crowdfunded initiative called Project Coral Reef, which inked deals with e-commerce tech companies Shopify, Magento, and WooCommerce.
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The crowdfunded Ordinary Women series profiles great women of the past Feminist critic Anita Sarkeesian has risen to fame by dissecting pop culture.
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Zac Manchester, a Harvard researcher involved in Mr Milner's scheme, has already crowdfunded a project that produces satellites the size of postage stamps.
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Crowdfunded to the tune of $2350 million more, the Rocketbook Everlast catapulted the startup to over 2000,000 sales and $10 million in revenue.
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Planetary Resources, a Seattle company aiming to mine asteroids, withdrew a plan for a crowdfunded space telescope, sending back contributions collected on Kickstarter.
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Their fifth and final album was crowdfunded in 2015, pulling in donations from Katy Perry and probably your aunt, pooling more than $430,000.
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The device was crowdfunded and has sold more than 2399,000 units; meanwhile, the company has grown and attracted a $15 million A round.
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The OA's cancellation sparked a movement that transcended social media and entered the real world: A crowdfunded digital billboard appeared over Times Square.
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Lots of news outlets cover cool crowdfunded products on Kickstarter and Indiegogo, or mention that a story's subject is raising money on GoFundMe.
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I've had several friends get into accidents in foreign countries, and they couldn't get proper medical treatment until they'd crowdfunded the needed resources.
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The book was crowdfunded on Indiegogo last year, and after publishing the book in Danish, Brynnum made the English version available to backers.
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A group of former Gawker employees recently abandoned their crowdfunded effort to buy the site and have returned the approximately $90,000 they collected.
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It is largely crowdfunded and staffed by approximately 50 volunteers; Madsen left in 2014 amid a rocky relationship with other members of the group.
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The organization is expanding with the "Anime Grand Prix," a contest for crowdfunded short anime films and music videos commissioned on a living wage.
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It wasn't until the end of last year that a sex toy, Dame Products' Fin vibrator, was allowed to be crowdfunded through the website.
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The Swift by UFactory is a crowdfunded robotic arm that promises fun, frolic and programmable robotic interaction for about $300 for early-bird models.
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Also worth noting: Indiegogo got a shoutout tonight when The Silent Child (which was crowdfunded on the site) won for best live action short.
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The caveat with anything crowdfunded still remains: nothing is guaranteed and a project can fall through or fail to be completed at any time.
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Although there is more foundation to go on here than many Indiegogo campaigns, the usual warning with buying a crowdfunded project does still apply.
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I talked to a few crowdfunded companies when researching this article, and a common theme of their experiences was the difficulty of manufacturing overseas.
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Way back in 2015, comedy group Broken Lizard successfully crowdfunded $2 million to create a sequel to the 2001 cop cult classic, Super Troopers.
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More traditional retailers tend to take an interest in crowdfunded devices post-campaign, and only once the creators already have a firm business strategy.
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Entrepreneurship The Opal Nugget Ice Maker machine had all the usual hallmarks of a crowdfunded hit, aside from one tiny bit of fine print.
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The company's new crowdfunded project is called the HyperCube, and it's a USB dongle that lets your phone charger double as a storage device.
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At the time, I was comparing the RP1 with the reMarkable, a crowdfunded rival that offers fantastic writing ability but isn't without its flaws.
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The device was crowdfunded via a Kickstarter campaign, as a means of getting the developer community interested in building for the Sense software platform.
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If Motorola hasn't convinced you with its current slate of Moto Mods, one could question whether third-party crowdfunded developers will have better luck.
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Olympic bronze medalist Monica Aksamit crowdfunded more than $23,000 on GoFundMe to help her pursue her dream of returning to the Olympics in 2020.
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The Classic is made by Samuel Tay who previously crowdfunded and built the Sea Spirit a handsome, nautical-themed automatic that did quite well.
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Ink, more than 600 people joined the project, which is called The People's Horse, in an effort to breed the world's first crowdfunded racehorse.
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Ember's a celebrity-backed product that began as a crowdfunded campaign last year, and can now be bought online or in your neighborhood Starbucks.
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I crowdfunded to get 10 Chromebooks with all the keys on the keyboard, so they could learn to type on a machine that works.
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There's been really big campaigns crowdfunded on LIHKG — people describe it as the Reddit of Hong Kong, but it's basically a website of forums.
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One Nigel flew in from Cyprus, and another Nigel crowdfunded his plane ticket from Texas, U.S. so he could be among his Nigel kinsfolk.
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The film is currently being crowdfunded via IndieGoGo, with a number of perks, including signed film scripts and launch night tickets, available to backers.
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As with any crowdfunded product, there's always a level of risk involved, even when production-ready products can be demonstrated, as is the case here.
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Crowdfunded printers like this one have often gotten a bad rap which is why I asked to see it before the end of the campaign.
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Sex games and couples' toys are really popular, like the Eva Now—a hands-free couples vibrator which was actually crowdfunded by two Williamsburg girls.
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The following night, another group of 54 people were stopped at the same location, a stone's throw away from the base of the crowdfunded wall.
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Despite the crowdfunded nature of the project, SwellPro is an existing company with a history of actually selling drones, which should help assuage Kickstarter doubts.
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Dustin Shomer, who is being charged with 17 counts of felony and eight counts of misdemeanor in Arizona, has crowdfunded over $3,000 in legal fees.
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Peak Design collected over $15 million in pledges through its seven previous Kickstarter campaigns and is now the most active crowdfunded company — miss you, Pebble.
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CNET spent some hands-on time with the devices and came away with some positive impressions, which is good to see for a crowdfunded project.
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The gap between that crowdfunded tchotchke and my own desperation-tinged investment in the well-being of the real woman it represented felt almost unbearable.
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The idea was to help small teams navigate the world of hardware manufacturing and, ultimately, get them to actually deliver their crowdfunded product to backers.
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At this point you can probably crowdfund almost anything, and I'd love to see a crowdfunded car come down the pike one of these days.
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But beware that crowdfunded projects can and do fail often, so there's no guarantee that you'll be living mouse-free if you do back this.
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Lots of VR controllers hit Kickstarter around 2013, filling a gap for people who bought Oculus' newly released (and similarly crowdfunded) Rift VR development kit.
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Sure, it's a crowdfunded Indiegogo product that might not actually ship before Apple's does — especially since the iPhone company is hosting an event next week.
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Thrive Agric: The company helps smallholder farmers in Nigeria access crowdfunded loans to help grow their crops, as well as help them sell their produce.
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The company's first product was met with mixed reviews – not unusual for a first generation crowdfunded hardware project – or, for that matter, fully wireless earbuds.
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Crowdfunded startups often run into just as many delays and problems when they find themselves overfunded as they do when they simply match their goal.
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The original intent of the crowdfunded "Shadowbrokers Response Team" was to purchase access to the leaks and allow security researchers to tear through the files.
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Those are all just recommendations, however, meant to improve the odds of success for a crowdfunded project and the overall reputation of the platform itself.
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Chicken Soup for the Soul Entertainment listed on Nasdaq last month after its own $30 million crowdfunded IPO, which it billed as the largest yet.
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First, patients may harm their health if they use crowdfunded money to pay for therapies that are proven not to work and foregoing proven treatments.
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At the start of this year it crowdfunded a fourth-gen STEM device, the pi-top 4, with an estimated shipping date of this month.
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While big companies like Apple and Samsung are getting into the game, competition is coming from independent, crowdfunded hearables that are quickly filling the market.
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While I tend to be a bit hesitant when it comes to crowdfunded hardware (having been burned too many times by products that either never arrived or did arrive only to be total garbage), Flux has been down this road before; in addition to Delta, it also crowdfunded and shipped Beambox (a slightly bigger, pricier, but more powerful laser cutter) just a few months back.
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They're not exactly reinventing the wheel either, just bringing a clever and useful upgrade to an existing product which they already successfully crowdfunded four years ago.
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FlipFlic, a San Francisco-based crowdfunded company, aims to make ordinary blinds smarter with its device – which senses and automatically responds to changing light and temperature.
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Many hardware companies, especially crowdfunded ones in the US, learn that lesson the hard way, missing deadlines and hitting snags that lead to months-long delays.
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Her "atmospheric kitchen sensors" are basically Breathalyzers that sniff out nutritional needs, a proposed tool that crops up as crowdfunded vaporware about three times per year.
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Four months ago the depressed Ruhr-valley city of Bochum opened a charming new concert hall which had been in part crowdfunded by 20,000 local residents.
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And unlike many of the other crowdfunded headphone jack cases, Griffin's actually has Apple's MFi certification, meaning that it's considerably less likely to harm your phone.
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Valve's massive Dota 2 tournament, which is heading into its ninth annual iteration, features a prize pool that's largely crowdfunded, a tradition dating back to 2013.
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As always, there's the crowdfunded nature of the product, which is a hardware product from a first-time company, so use your best judgement when backing.
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There is no real way of knowing whether the interests of the majority owner are even aligned with the interests of the portion that is crowdfunded.
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A crowdfunded spiritual successor to the director's Castlevania classics, Bloodstained has everything you'd expect: terrifying monsters, gothic castles, copious amounts of blood, and lots of whips.
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By releasing the dataset, Google hopes to give everyone a chance to use the crowdfunded sketches, especially developers trying to train neural networks of their own.
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Ultimately, though, it's yet another disappointing turn for backers of the Vega Plus, albeit one that's a useful reminder of the potential risks of crowdfunded gadgets.
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We The People won't just sell crowdfunded tech products, but other things that came up through that funding method, too, including toys, puzzles, and home goods.
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The Last Jedi backlash got widespread press coverage simply for a few bizarre (and, admittedly, very funny) stunts like a crowdfunded "Remake The Last Jedi" campaign.
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According to Kevin Gallagher, a longtime advocate who crowdfunded tens of thousands of dollars for Brown's defense, his sentence is set to conclude on May 25.
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In 2014, Axanar productions crowdfunded and released Prelude to Axanar, a 20-minute, documentary-style short film that serves as a prequel to the longer film.
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In a letter sent to Indiegogo backers of one of its wearables — and seen by TechCrunch — the founders also confirm the crowdfunded device will not ship.
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The crowdfunded projects and revenue produced are still a small fraction of daily reporting output and the $20 billion in yearly newspaper advertising alone, Pew said.
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Although there have been a number of public setbacks in the IoT space (especially around crowdfunded hardware — Skully, Coin, etc.), clearly confidence in the space remains.
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Vue are prescription, crowdfunded glasses that launched on Kickstarter today and function as a fitness tracker, bone conduction headphones, and a Bluetooth mic for phone calls.
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Kim Suozzi, a 23-year-old neuroscience student, also received notoriety after she successfully crowdfunded the fee to have her head stored by Alcor in 2013.
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The other key difference between the two options is that Volume isn't crowdfunded; it's available for preorder starting at $1,199 for a full range of color.
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Of course as a crowdfunded project there's no guarantee it'll ship, but the company is targeting a ship date of October if it hits its goals.
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Fans helped the campaign blast past its original $23 million goal, eventually raising nearly $250 million, turning it into the biggest crowdfunded video project on Kickstarter.
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Fans helped the campaign blast past its original $2000 million goal, eventually raising nearly $214 million, turning it into the biggest crowdfunded video project on Kickstarter.
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He's working on a site called WeLeaker, which he called "a crowdfunded TMZ to buy stories," which he hopes to launch in the next few months.
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Since then, Rmory has worked on everything from small independent projects like the XCOM-like strategy game Xenonauts to the biggest crowdfunded game ever, Star Citizen.
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Also in the U.S.: People on the internet have crowdfunded almost $2,800 to buy billionaire Elon Musk, who owns at least five mansions, a new couch.
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It had successfully crowdfunded over $60,000 for the Mod, a hypercustomizable vibrator that had already been recognized for its innovation by sex tech showcase Arse Elektronika.
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Block Club Chicago, conceived by ex-DNAinfo staffers, was boosted by a crowdfunded campaign and is now supported through subscriptions and the blockchain-centered platform Civil.
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Another description on the poster claims the cost was "crowdfunded by the 9-year-old army," a reference to what PewDiePie fans jokingly refer to themselves as.
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Most of the 3D printers that crowdfunded over the past years are likely unable to finance a second production run — if they even delivered on the first.
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To wit: Finland's Jolla, which makes its own mobile OS Sailfish and — previously — its own mobile devices too, has confirmed that its crowdfunded tablet is being canned.
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But the High Five — a crowdfunded mini-cable that claims to be the "world's first 5-in-1 charging cable" — might be able to help with that.
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Plus, Ashley brought us more crowdfunded gadgets she found from the show floor, like the Moodo "scent DJ" and the latest craze after raw water, water pods!
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New photos from the crowdfunded spacecraft, which is operated by The Planetary Society, provide a stunning high-resolution look at the Earth from its unique vantage point.
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Those who've been clutching onto their crowdfunded wearable for dear life will be able to keep the product up and running through June 30 of this year.
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When you think of crowdfunded projects, you probably jump to weird gadgets, niche boardgames, and high-tech coolers made by a couple of people in their garage.
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It's good to see Kickstarter get back into the race and actually start promoting its internal teams that are working with creators to build successful crowdfunded projects.
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Meanwhile, an anti-migrant group operating as We Build the Wall has started construction on a crowdfunded border wall nearby, right next to the National Butterfly Center.
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Which is why astronomers are not particularly pleased with Trevor Paglen, the artist who has crowdfunded a project to launch an extremely reflective sculpture into the stratosphere.
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He'd toured Batio's apartment building for a crowdfunded film he was shooting, and Batio had offered him much-needed work making videos for the first Indiegogo campaign.
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Personal-finance startup Pillar announced a "gifting platform" on Tuesday for friends and family members to give holiday gifts in the form of crowdfunded student loan payments.
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" Meanwhile, Justin Bailey, CEO of crowdfunded video games publisher Fig, added that regulators like the SEC need to "come to town and bring legitimacy to this technology.
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Earlier this year, I traveled to Iran in search of the tonbak and to make The Hidden Drummers of Iran -- a crowdfunded documentary film about my quest.
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Users of the paid task sites expressed serious reservations about the ethics of the tasks, with some wondering whether paid crowdfunded lobbying of this nature constitutes fraud.
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The brainchild of a now-deceased local priest named Sylwester Zawadzki, Christ the King was crowdfunded with $1.45 million in donations from residents of the town and elsewhere.
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The catch was that it came from an unknown company called Eve-Tech that had crowdfunded the device and sought input on its design from the campaign backers.
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The $13 million Kickstarter project that promised a portable cooler with built-in speakers and charging that turned into one of the biggest crowdfunded disasters of all time?
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As previously mentioned, Mu has shipped several chargers before, making this somewhat of a safer project than other crowdfunded devices (although using your own discretion is still advised).
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During his career as a vlogger, entertainer, and musician, he's performed at VidCon, premiered a film at Sundance, successfully crowdfunded a game, and has his own action figure.
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She eventually thrived as a freelance because she crowdfunded her research into Bradford and the lost children, giving subscribers exclusive online chunks of her findings and her writings.
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Unfortunately for backers everywhere, however, there's yet another roadblock in the way of getting that cash back: PayPal has is taking away its purchase protection for crowdfunded payments.
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The company claims that it'll ship both versions this October, but obviously use your own judgment before backing due to the crowdfunded and untested nature of the device.
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There are a few qualms here, as is to be expected with any first-gen crowdfunded project, but the Moft's not a bad little buy for the price.
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Their first stunt involved a crowdfunded campaign to buy land where Trump's wall would be built, to force the American government into a court battle over eminent domain.
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In fact, both have crowdfunded to buy small eight-rotor drones used to fly over the the battlefields and send back live video of their enemies' artillery positions.
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And while the crowdfunded nature and long lead time are definitely things to consider before backing, Next Thing has previously run successful hardware Kickstarter campaigns in the past.
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After all, it's a sequel to Pillars of Eternity, the crowdfunded throwback isometric role-playing game hearkening back to the heyday in the genre in the early 2000s.
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To help improve the reputation of the site, Kickstarter has released a list of new guidelines, recommendations, and enforced rules when it comes to promoting a crowdfunded item.
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He was inspired to take the kids after seeing a clip of The Ellen Show in which Degeneres talked to the founder of the crowdfunded Black Panther Challenge.
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To wit, The Carmilla Movie was largely crowdfunded by fans preordering the film, and a young adult novel adapting the web series is slated to arrive in 2019.
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But the $2000 billion in transactions YieldStreet has crowdfunded so far have always been individual deals, meaning users didn't have access to an all-in-one diversified fund.
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Women founders who use seed crowdfunding platforms aren't just reaching their funding goals, they are doing so at a rate that's better than crowdfunded ventures started by men.
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As with any crowdfunded product it's buyer beware here, because any number of things can go wrong, or delay delivery, as the case moves from final testing to production.
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Like other Kickstarters, be cautious if you're thinking about backing the product, as crowdfunded gadgets may never ship; though Gaze has successfully shipped a Kickstarter project in the past.
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Teespring was founded in 2012 by Walker Williams and Evan Stites-Clayton after they crowdfunded t-shirts to commemorate a beloved bar that was shutting down near their college.
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These days, prize pools for major competitions, like Call of Duty, are at least in the six-figure range, and crowdfunded prize pools boost those paychecks into the millions.
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It's since gone on to become one of the most successful crowdfunded apparel items ever, having raised that aforementioned sum on Kickstarter in addition to $11.6 million on Indiegogo.
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And because it's a crowdfunded technology campaign there's the inherent risk of unseen complications that could delay shipments or result in a product that ships without promised technologies enabled.
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There's really only so many ways I can keep saying this, but as usual, it's a crowdfunded hardware product from a first-time company, so use your best judgement.
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And while Soylent, the crowdfunded beverage that he created, is now valued at over $100 million, his first experiment in eco-living has turned into something of a debacle.
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Previously available only to backers of the crowdfunded adventure game, the 20-part series is available to watch on YouTube and it's been given a proper Blu-ray release.
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She crowdfunded to send her 13-year-old daughter Theresa Brumm, who identifies as a lesbian, from their home in Cincinnati, to the camp in California this coming summer.
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Most recently, Benvie had been posting videos from a private lot of land in Sunland Park, New Mexico, where the group "We Build the Wall" constructed a crowdfunded border wall.
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DFRobot has been around for a while selling various microcontrollers and electronic components, and has successfully ran a previous Kickstarter, so backing Boson is probably safer than most crowdfunded campaigns.
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The usual warning on crowdfunded products applies with the Voice (although Matrix Labs has successfully shipped the Creator, which was similarly funded, so there is a good track record there).
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In this case, I'm referring to the GPD Pocket, a crowdfunded laptop that at first glance kind of looks like a toy but apparently is a full Windows 10 computer.
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The crowdfunded Taxi Fabric project, which was started in Mumbai to give the city's taxi seats a designer makeover, has now arrived in Delhi to refurbish the Indian capital's autos.
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Scollon said North99 started with $500 from himself and his cofounder, Geoff Sharpe, and is a 100% crowdfunded nonprofit with more than 7,500 donors and no single donation above $1,000.
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In this case, I'm talking about Psion's legendary pocket computers from the '90s — whose industrial designer, Martin Riddiford, successfully crowdfunded a modern version of the tiny laptop earlier this year.
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A few years ago, after an earthquake in Nepal, the Facebook community raised $15 million to help people recover and rebuild — which was the largest crowdfunded relief effort in history.
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At 28 I relapsed badly and my family crowdfunded enough money to pay for me to go to a treatment center in the US, where I stayed for seven months.
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Farahbakhshian, a former electrical engineer and certified Spin instructor, first introduced the Naked 3-D Fitness Tracker to the world two years ago and crowdfunded it through the company's website.
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They crowdfunded to cover the legal costs for an application calling on Haringey Council to revoke Wireless' license (ie: their right to throw the festival in the north London park).
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Iofit, a company that was recently spun out of Samsung's new startup accelerator, is here at Mobile World Congress to show off their soon-to-be-crowdfunded smart fitness sneakers.
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Meanwhile, every time I stop by Egg Picnic, a crowdfunded truck painted by artist Ong Kongpat, the crew are churning out khai jiew (fried Thai omelets) at a dizzying speed.
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VirtuaDolls and Girls of Arcadia, a crowdfunded VR porn game that raised over $100,000 this past spring, offers an example of just how panicked some members of the industry are.
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At the end of June this year, how this relatively forgotten album definitively changed the world of music we see today, became the subject of a brand new crowdfunded documentary.
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It'll also carry LightSail 2, a crowdfunded spacecraft spearheaded by Bill Nye's Planetary Society, which will make its way through space using the literal solar wind beneath its massive sail.
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Photo: GettyOn Monday, reporters were allowed to hear Peter Madsen's version of the events that led to the death of the journalist Kim Wall aboard crowdfunded submarine, the UC3 Nautilus.
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We got our first glimpse of Navdy's smart heads-up display for cars back in 2014, when the company crowdfunded its way to around two and a half million dollars.
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Indiegogo will now sell products that are successfully crowdfunded — a move into online commerce that positions the company both against giants like Amazon and more selective shopping experiences like Etsy.
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The creators, who originally crowdfunded their product, see it as an anti-surveillance, anti-censorship, and anti-"big tech" platform that ensures that no one party controls your online presence.
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Early bird pricing is $49 for a Covert Dock, with shipping estimated for December 2019 (although due to its crowdfunded nature, I'd treat the release date with some healthy skepticism).
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A few years ago, after an earthquake in Nepal, the Facebook community raised $15 million to help people recover and rebuild -- which was the largest crowdfunded relief effort in history.
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The International — one of the esports world's flagship events, featuring Defense of the Ancients 2 — set yet another record this year with a crowdfunded prize pool that exceeded $34 million.
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Peak Design has evolved from a crowdfunded upstart into a trusted accessory brand for photographers everywhere, and this week it introduced updates to its 'Everyday' line of backpacks and bags.
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Take 10% off the most crowdfunded watch in Kickstarter history In 2015, Filippo Loreti launched a Kickstarter campaign with the goal of bringing luxury timepieces to men at affordable prices.
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I will note that the crowdfunded docks do offer regular USB ports, unlike Nyko's offering, which does remain the only way to connect things like an Ethernet adapter to a Switch.
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But the tech industry should be wary of presenting sexual assault as a software glitch that can be "fixed" with crowdfunded vaporware that is unlikely to make it to the market.
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Crowdfunded spacecraft LightSail 2 is making good on its name, after successfully unfurling its solar sail in orbit so that it can begin propelling itself using the force of light alone.
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Given that this is a crowdfunded device and Linc has never shipped a product, there's always the chance that the product may never ship or work like you expect it to.
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Today's acquisition marks a major win for the small company, whose journey from crowdfunded product to multi-million dollar corporate prize brings to mind a similar transition for VR manufacturer Oculus.
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And as a first time, crowdfunded project from a new company that has yet to ship a product before, the burden is on Snapmaker to show that they can actually deliver.
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It's all part of Project SKYGLOW, a crowdfunded effort to raise awareness of how urban light pollution is swamping out our connection to the revolving expanse of stars and nebulas overhead.
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Also, there's the crowdfunded nature of the HyperDrive (although Hyper is an established company that already sells several USB-C hubs and has run other successful Kickstarter campaigns in the past).
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As with any crowdfunded product, its on-time delivery is dependent on everything going smoothly as the controller moves into production, and that Nintendo's lawyers don't decide to shut this down.
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It was the initial coin offering of that currency that enabled Sirin to now offer preorders for the Finney, having crowdfunded $157.8 million in SRN sales at the end of 2017.
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The number of crowdfunded journalism projects hit 173 from January through last September, up from 83 that were funded from Kickstarter's launch in April 2009 through the end of that year.
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"The influence operates on a self censorship level," says Matt Bruenig a former researcher at the liberal think tank Demos, and founder at the People's Policy Project, a crowdfunded think tank.
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It's entirely likely that channels that began as crowdfunded efforts, with no intention to make money through ads, would skip this process entirely, thus leading to the discovery of today's change.
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Over-the-roof valuations will make it increasingly hard for these crowdfunded startups to prove their worth, and it feels like some sort of crash is inevitable, but it hasn't happened yet.
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Its creators are hoping to have the device in backer's hands by April of next year, but unforeseen delays—which aren't uncommon with crowdfunded products—could push that delivery back even further.
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So there are fewer caveats than can usually apply to a crowdfunded hardware (though, as ever with anything being pitched for sale when still a prototype, it's always prudent to expect delays).
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Its Kickstarter campaign has already surpassed its ~$24,000 funding goal, but as with all crowdfunded products, that's no guarantee that the speaker will arrive on time, or at all, so buyer beware.
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The Sobro is a crowdfunded cooler / coffee table hybrid that offers a built-in speaker, chargers (two USB, two wall plugs), LED lights, and a minifridge that's available on Indiegogo for crowdfunding.
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This week, word broke of the final, ultimate demise of the Pebble smartwatch, with current owner Fitbit announcing that it would be ending support for the scrappy crowdfunded smartwatches this coming June.
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Amazon also recently partnered with Kickstarter for a similar collection of selected merchandise — in that case, successful, crowdfunded products across categories like electronics, books, home and kitchen, movies and TV and more.
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"Lego thief" sounds like an occupation that only exists in crowdfunded Zach Braff movies, but stealing the surprisingly pricey colored blocks is a lucrative trade according to Portland Police Sergeant Peter Simpson.
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Spending your hard-earned cash on something that's still being crowdfunded is always a gamble because you never know if the thing you're investing in will every make it to your doorstep.
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The crowdfunded statue is a sort of greatest hits of many of Bowie's performance personas, with regular 2002 'hanging out in my suit' Bowie smiling fondly while looking at all of them.
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Recently, a "Remember Fanny" campaign crowdfunded a memorial for Cornforth's unmarked grave, where she was buried after dying in 1909 at the West Sussex Count Lunatic Asylum at the age of 74.
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Correctly guessing that most people would go with option two, the Citizens Advertising Takeover Service (CATs) crowdfunded a dream to replace as many London underground ads as possible with feline-themed photos.
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Now, following his release from a Pennsylvania prison in July, the 27-year-old has a plan to use Bitcoin rival Ethereum as a platform for a crowdfunded investment fund called Mainstreet.
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He most recently crowdfunded Novena, an open source laptop (thereby proving small batch manufacturing is open even to laptops), and a guide to Shenzhen's electronics market which can save visitors much trouble.
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Or to put it another way: crowdfunded sex toys may not have quite lived up to the hype, but the revolution they've incited—and the orgasms they'll unleash—has only just begun.
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Erin Potts, a New Orleans resident and an independent consultant who works on social change, started a crowdfunded campaign to wipe out the medical debt of New Orleans' poorest residents last September.
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Second, if they use crowdfunded money to pay for experimental therapies outside of clinical trials, that denies society the information it would get were the patient a part of the clinical trial.
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As a co-founder of the crowdfunded collective Copenhagen Suborbitals, he has made headlines in the past for his failed efforts to fly a human in a one-man rocket to suborbital space.
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I was only able to do that because as a freelancer, I had created my own small crowdfunded outlet, Payday Report, after being fired during a union drive at Politico back in 2015.
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As with any crowdfunded project, there's always some risk involved in backing, but GPD's past experience with the Win should offer some confidence that they may actually meet the promised June ship date.
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"I think that backers are more discerning now, since unfortunately a number of crowdfunded games did not come out, or did not deliver on all of their promises," says Obsidian CEO Feargus Urquhart.
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We've seen new smartphones this year, but we've also witnessed a renaissance in Wi-Fi routers, a legion of crowdfunded gear, as well as big companies, like Google and Snap, refocusing on hardware.
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In what seems a bigger twist, the San Francisco-based company will also now sell other items, too, opening its new platform — called simply "Indiegogo Marketplace" — to goods that were successfully crowdfunded elsewhere.
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Created by the Montreal-based team that successfully shipped the Veco, this crowdfunded electric bike can collapse for travel and can go 40 miles with pedal assist and 28 miles on full automatic.
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The LightSail is a crowdfunded project that aims to become the first spacecraft in earth orbit propelled solely by sunlight, the society, which has championed solar propulsion for decades, says on its website.
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In one of at least three attacks that happened during Consensus, Ortiz allegedly stole more than $1.5 million from a cryptocurrency entrepreneur, including nearly $1 million that he had crowdfunded in an ICO.
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Keep these points top of mind, however, and you'll be well on your way to successfully launching your crowdfunded hardware startup and avoiding the pitfalls that can sink even the best-intentioned companies.
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Before the original Soylent product was crowdfunded, fans created homages and rival products at home, sharing the results online and tailoring the recipes to suit their nutritional needs with an in-built calculator.
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The crowdfunded original, which comes in a sleek plastic case that can be slipped onto a keychain, did astoundingly well during its campaign, attracting 38,443 backers and raising nearly $2 million in funding.
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The bags aren't expected to ship until July 2018, either, which is something to take into account, especially seeing as this is a crowdfunded project with all the usual risks that can entail.
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The Planetary Society's crowdfunded LightSail 2 spacecraft reported back some good news today: It's officially orbiting on its own after being delivered to space via rocket rideshare aboard SpaceX's Falcon Heavy last week.
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But while it might seem like options for a lust-driven gaming experience are limited, there is a swiftly growing third option: the thriving world of crowdfunded adult visual novel and adventure games.
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But in the end, we all failed, because the government refused to let their own citizens leave the country — despite the fact Charlie's parents had crowdfunded enough money to transport and treat him.
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The government caps how much individuals may invest during any 12-month period in all forms of crowdfunded investing (not just limited to a single platform), based on how much money you have.
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And again, Veronica Mars is a good example here: That crowdfunded 2014 movie was explicitly built to be fanservice, designed to give fans exactly what they wanted, and it was not very good.
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They were certainly more comfortable than the many delegates who crowdfunded their way to the convention—and more comfortable still than the Sanders holdouts who spent the week protesting in the brutal heat.
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As these new projects, many of whom are well-funded thanks to ICOs, rush to fix Bitcoin's issues of scalability, privacy and governance, millions of dollars, both crowdfunded and VC-based, will pour in.
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Days earlier a crowdfunded newspaper ad by local employees of the Big Four accounting firms—Deloitte, Ernst & Young, KPMG and PwC—blamed their Hong Kong branches for turning a deaf ear to the protests.
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The usual caveats apply here given this is a crowdfunded product, and delivery isn't expected until sometime in mid-2017 so you've got a bit of waiting to do before you can start playing.
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G.E.'s approach is an unusually bold one, but a growing number of large companies are experimenting with programs intended to capture some of the creativity and passion that popular crowdfunded projects can inspire.
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The Smithsonian's crowdfunding campaign to preserve and display Neil Armstrong's…Read more ReadWhat followed was 13 years of painstaking restoration and conservation work, partially funded by over $700,000 raised in a crowdfunded Kickstarter campaign.
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I covered the original launch of Bitlock's crowdfunding campaign back in October 503, at a time when crowdfunded technology projects-in-the-making were considered exciting and experimental enough to be worth writing about.
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It's worth noting that the company behind this project also made the Neptune Pine — an crowdfunded smartwatch with a massive 2.4-inch capacitive display that was basically a smartphone strapped directly onto your wrist.
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She lives in Tampa, if memory serves, and won a juried prize last year for a mixed-media meditation on habitat loss across America, including charts, chants, photographs, oral histories, crowdfunded films, and salvaged trash.
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There's also a slightly technical issue that forms a second front in the DA's lawsuit: the fact that they went with an independent "pre-order" strategy rather than an established crowdfunded development site like Kickstarter.
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In a crowdfunded legal challenge brought by a Northern Irish citizen, lawyers argued that the deal, known as a confidence-and-supply agreement, was corrupt because it amounted to using public money to buy votes.
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Last year, Carr attempted to raise money for a Kickstarter campaign to launch the first crowdfunded Climate Change Super Bowl ad (raising $5.5 million in a narrow time frame is difficult, as it turns out).
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In one newspaper promotion, Pulitzer crowdfunded the money needed for a pedestal for the Statue of Liberty by offering to print on the front page the name of every person who donated to its construction.
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When a crowdfunded documentary about child molestation by Catholic priests was released on YouTube recently, it was viewed more than twenty million times—equivalent to more than half of Poland's population—in a few days.
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The LightSail 2 is a crowdfunded project that aims to become the first spacecraft in Earth orbit propelled solely by sunlight, the Planetary Society, which has championed solar propulsion for decades, said on its website.
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The highlights of the last ten years, from AirPower to Google Wave This is the decade we learned that crowdfunded gadgets can be utter disasters, even if they don't outright steal your hard-earned cash.
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Per Klein, jobs are being taking out as the company moves from building atop the Raspberry Pi platform — where it started, back in 2013, with its crowdfunded DIY computer — to a Windows-based learning platform.
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It's nearing the end of a $1 million crowdfunded investment campaign on StartEngine, and users can purchase "Pro" memberships through PayPal and Stripe, both of which have dropped more explicitly alt-right-related people and platforms.
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Noted alt-right troll Chuck Johnson's new website WeSearcher — a crowdfunded reporting site aimed at raising bounties to expose mainstream journalists and political opponents — is so slickly designed it feels a bit like Kickstarter's evil twin.
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Photo: GoFundMeJohnny Bobbitt is reportedly homeless and asking for money on the Philadelphia streets less than a year after he selflessly helped a stranded person, earning him viral attention and hundreds of thousands in crowdfunded donations.
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Without the proper reward tiers, communication with fans, and â€" most importantly â€" compelling artistic work, just having a Patreon is not a guarantee that an artist will be able to turn a meaningful crowdfunded profit.
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On the flip side, though, there's something naggingly bleak about the idea that a good Instagram photo can make or break an animal's survival, a dynamic that eerily parallels our modern dystopia of crowdfunded health care.
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The PowerUp comes as a crowdfunded Indiegogo project from Homey Lab, and is essentially a USB-C charger the same size and shape as Apple's old MagSafe bricks, but with a USB-C cable built in.
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At launch, the service will offer investments in a quartet of startups, including ArtCraft Entertainment's already well-crowdfunded game Crowfall, sports sensor Play Impossible, music social media platform BeatStars and the DC-based distillery Republic Restoratives.
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A store dedicated to crowdfunded products called We The People opened in the US this year, but how it'll do compared to tried-and-true, vetted products in Amazon 4-star stores remains to be seen.
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On top of that, this month saw Zombie drop his sixth theatrically-released film 31, a crowdfunded slasher epic about a group of carnies trying to escape a gang of killer clowns the night before Halloween.
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He could spend all $15,000 on strippers, and, while the people who crowdfunded that money would probably not be pleased, it would at least add another data point about how individuals would use a basic income.
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It was then that Limbu heard about Vertical University, a crowdfunded education project set up in 22005 to equip people like her with the skills to conserve the natural habitat and native species of eastern Nepal.
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This is Bird's first foray into car painting, but his second crowdfunded art venture — the first being a cross-country road trip he undertook to painting the Sears department stores of the nation en plein air.
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PyleThe results are now in after a year-long, crowdfunded investigation into the star KIC 21, and to hardly anyone's surprise, the strange dimming produced by this star doesn't appear to be caused by an alien megastructure.
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CORK, Ireland — Flights are being crowdfunded on Facebook so that Irish citizens living abroad can make a last-minute dash home to vote in Friday's "once-in-a-generation" referendum to overturn the country's restrictive abortion laws.
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If you're wondering what the holdup has been — the game was successfully crowdfunded back in 2015, after all, and it has seen multiple delays since then — the latest trailer for the game is a surprisingly honest answer.
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Last year, Hulu announced that it was bringing the TV show back for a new, eight-episode season, and that it would bring the entire series — including the crowdfunded movie — to the streaming service at some point.
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Anker is trying, Griffin has a version, Nomad has a similar style pad, and that's to say nothing of the plethora of crowdfunded knock-offs and sketchy replicas that are practically a dime a dozen on Amazon.
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If you'd rather hold off until the Sled Legs start popping up in stores, though, you'll be spending closer to $140 for a set, so the risk of supporting a crowdfunded product might pay off this time.
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It's an interesting case study of a crowdfunded hardware project, not least because the Moon team made the unusual choice to keep everything local: from the resin casting of the moon itself to the chassis and electronics.
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That is a small seed round for a tech startup, but it represents an important source of income for Tor, which began soliciting 'crowdfunded' donations in 2015 in a bid to offset its reliance on government grants.
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None of this discouraged Ho. She parted ways with her record label so she could produce her own music; she crowdfunded gigs and tried to figure out a way to exist outside of the powerful Chinese market.
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For the uninitiated, Star Citizen is a crowdfunded video game, it's raised more than $160 million, and the brain child of Roberts—the man responsible for both the Wing Commander video games and the Wing Commander movie.
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Vee's recent casting project was for Indivisible, a crowdfunded action RPG celebrated for its diverse representation reflected in its appropriately casted characters, and one of the largest, most in-depth casting projects she had undertaken to date.
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Ask anyone who's ever crowdfunded to pay a medical bill or donated to someone else's effort, paid an exorbitant fee for a prescription medication, or waited months to see a medical practitioner who actually accepts their insurance.
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A subgroup of mostly quartz micro-brands are designed and marketed in Sweden and manufactured in Switzerland or Asia, many of them crowdfunded start-ups, said Tomas Jonsson, himself a Swede and founder of the blog whichwatch.org.
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A Texas judge granted a temporary restraining order this week to the opponents of a crowdfunded project to build part of President Trump's border wall, siding with a butterfly conservancy that sued over its projected environmental impact.
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They're only available from Lumos, and if the company ever hits a financial stumbling block, as most crowdfunded products and companies do, you'll have no choice but to return to a decidedly less magical life of match books.
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The startup went on to pass through startupbootcamp and crowdfunded a cute looking chocolate-bar shaped hardware starter kit before expanding into building a hardware agnostic cloud services platform to act as a central hub for data flows.
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I think that 5 to 10 percent of your nest egg in a speculation — and crowdfunded companies are just that — still may be too much to allocate, but at least the SEC has attempted to rein folks in.
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With an influx of third-party rip-offs from China, the sad state of Kickstarter campaigns, and the fact that even historically well-funded crowdfunded products can't make it in the market, gadgets are done for, Farhad says.
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The dozens of companies making headphones, from Vietnam to Romania, are usually home-spun, crowdfunded or self-financed, and rarely employ more than a few staff, says Jude Mansilla, who runs a website and organized the Singapore expo.
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During Vidcon, feminist critic Anita Sarkeesian decried what she called a crowdfunded "cottage industry of online harassment and anti-feminism," after a confrontation with reactionary vlogger Carl "Sargon of Akkad" Benjamin — who makes $5,000 a month through Patreon.
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Last week saw the release of their crowdfunded film, In Pursuit of Silence, which examines the way excessive noise has slowly infiltrated every aspect of our lives, and why human lives depend on our ability to combat it.
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The summons was sought by "Brexit Justice", a crowdfunded group seeking a private prosecution against Johnson, arguing he deliberately made false comments about the cost of Britain's EU membership before both the referendum and the 2017 national election.
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Given the questionable claim of offering a MagSafe-compatible device, however, along with the crowdfunded nature of a hardware device from a first-time company, the usual warnings to use your best judgement before backing definitely apply here.
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And the alt-right crowdfunded investigations site WeSearchr also found itself on PayPal's "currently limited" list in early May, but PayPal said that hold was because of business compliance issues, not a violation of its anti-hate policies.
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Hardware Incubators Are Critical To The Future Of Making Things You might have noticed something puzzling if you've been keeping an eye on the crowdfunding space: A large number of seemingly promising crowdfunded hardware startups fail to deliver.
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It's early so the jury is still out on how successful it will be, but many professional early stage investors have stopped funding companies that took crowdfunded money because they represent an unqualified risk on the balance sheet.
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Xiaomi notes that the 1080p Mi Drone "will be crowdfunded on the Mi Home app starting 26 May 2016" while the 4K option "will be available for testing via an open beta programme at the end of July."
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Even as IndieGogo has become home to countless crowdfunded vibrators (including Dame's first product, Eva, which still holds the record for most successful sex toy project on IndieGogo), Kickstarter has remained steadfast in its no erotic products stance.
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The brothers, who'd grown up making home movies together, sold their movie to backers based on a short trailer they'd created to generate interest in the project; the movie was essentially manually crowdfunded, long before the age of Kickstarter.
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Image: LG DisplayCES is less than a week away, which means there are less than seven days before we're inundated with news of crazy new TVs, laptops, and random crowdfunded gadgets that probably should never make it to market.
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The controversial crowdfunded wall built along the New Mexico border was illegally constructed, city officials say, charging the landowner where the wall was erected with building without a permit, a crime punishable by up to three months in jail.
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The pair are dismissive of consumer smart lock 'gadgetry' that's been crowdfunded in recent years, arguing enterprise customers will need a lot more confidence that the hardware they're being sold will last and won't come with any unwelcome surprises.
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I have to say, normally I wouldn't highlight a random crowdfunded gadget, but I happen to have met the creator of this one, Wells Tu, at one of our events, and trust him and his team to actually deliver.
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And later that month, California daredevil "Mad Mike" Hughes announced he would be shooting himself 1,800 feet in the air aboard a home-made rocket crowdfunded by flat earthers, presumably to prove there is no curvature in the earth.
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The company's quirky vision for "technosexual freedom" was being lauded by the press, and it seemed like Comingle was on its way to something big—the latest rising star in the much discussed trend of innovative crowdfunded sex toys.
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Awards: Animated Short Hair Love was a record-breaking Kickstarter before it was a movie; after launching in 2017, the crowdfunded film drew contributions totaling than $300,000, the most raised to date on the platform for a short film.
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While the conversation will likely focus on her latest robotic and hardware creations (including her crowdfunded Every Day Calendar), Giertz is a remarkable case study in how someone can build an enormous following and business on digital media platforms.
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LONDON (Reuters) - A crowdfunded legal challenge to determine whether Britain's divorce from the European Union can be reversed once it has been triggered will be launched in Dublin by the end of January, the lawyer behind the case said.
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Most queer and trans people I've known have had fraught relationships with their families, if they talked to them at all, and they were neither a source of financial support — many transition-related surgeries were and still are crowdfunded — or caretaking.
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The video was filmed by timelapse artists Gavin Heffernan and Harun Mehmedinovic as part of the crowdfunded Project SKYGLOW, which seeks to explore the effects of urban light pollution on some of North America's most breathtaking natural areas and starscapes.
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Nonetheless, one day it will be easy to see the impact of your marketplace lending exposure, crowdfunded deals of startups, projects and real estate and perhaps a road or hotel built in Second Life along with all your other assets.
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Crowdfunded and shot during a five-month trip by Zouak three years ago, the films include women of all ages and backgrounds, working in health, education and with refugees, as well as those helping drug users and domestic abuse victims.
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Crowdfunded campaign group Led By Donkeys released helicopter footage showing a tractor putting the finishing touches on 40-metre (130-foot) high letters plowed into a field belonging to an anti-Brexit farmer in the county of Wiltshire in southwest England.
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These 'tribes' are loyal, and willing to dip into their pockets to support the bands they love; the last three albums of Jubilee Riots, a Canadian rock band, have been crowdfunded, with some recent songs based on story submissions from followers.
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Xiaomi tells us that the cheaper model will be "crowdfunded" inside the company's Mi Home app from 26 May 2016, while the 4K drone will be made available for early testing via an open beta program at the end of July.
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While many of these dolls received their fair share of laudatory press, they've virtually been non-starters in competing with Queen B — namely because they're produced by small companies, many of them crowdfunded, that lack the financial muscle of Mattel.
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Lots of recent crowdfunded gadgets make scientific claims, like the wearables that claim to be able to pinpoint when and why you're stressed, or the pen that claims to tell you your vitamin levels by just putting it against your skin.
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No matter how the half-a-747 is presented, it will be outshone by other, even larger crowdfunded constructions like the 17,000-square-foot Catacomb of Veils or the now-traditional Temple, which this year will be 100-feet talll.
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And arriving to the Federal Elections for the first time is the Arts Party, the country's first and only crowdfunded political party that is simply aiming to receive one million votes as a huge gesture of national support for the arts.
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Crowdfunded campaign group Led By Donkeys released helicopter footage showing a tractor putting the finishing touches on 40-metre (130-foot) high letters ploughed into a field belonging to an anti-Brexit farmer in the county of Wiltshire in southwest England.
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There's also value in the fact that the latest study sources research not only from major academic institutions, but from citizen scientists who first helped spot the dimming events, and who crowdfunded research projects on Kickstarter to try to explain them.
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We got word yesterday that the crowdfunded LightSail 2 spacecraft had successfully deployed its Mylar solar sail, a large sheet of reflective material that will harness the minute power of photons bouncing off its surface to make an energy-efficient traversal through space.
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Instead, they're probably buying one of the excellent Qi chargers that are already out there, or even one of the many, many knockoffs of Apple's AirPower multi-device charging pad idea from companies like Griffin, Nomad, Anker, or any of these crowdfunded alternatives.
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"I think that backers are more discerning now, since unfortunately a number of crowdfunded games did not come out, or did not deliver on all of their promises," Feargus Urquhart, CEO of Pillars of Eternity developer Obsidian, told The Verge last month.
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It's worth keeping in mind that the Growler Chill is still a crowdfunded Kickstarter project from a first time company that's never shipped a product before, and while the company has a working prototype, it still has yet to go to mass production.
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Set to hit theaters in 2019, the film, which was partially crowdfunded and directed by Cody Meirick, will feature interviews with the author's family members (Schwartz died in 1992) folklorists, and even other YA horror writers like R.L. Stine, who created Goosebumps.
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If anything, Godbole's type of self-publishing may be scaring publishers, who help nudge along the opinions of the literary elite: Her books are crowdfunded, well-designed, and selling all over the world (she has an interactive map that proves this last point).
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LONDON, Jan 483 (Reuters) - A crowdfunded legal challenge to determine whether Britain's divorce from the European Union can be reversed once it has been triggered will be launched in Dublin by the end of January, the lawyer behind the case said on Thursday.
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It's puzzling enough that he's so calm just a handful of days ahead of the release of his latest game Obduction, a crowdfunded "spiritual successor" to Myst that grabbed more than $20043,300,000 when Miller and Cyan announced it on Kickstarter in 2013.
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Among the list of offending elements, CBS and Paramount say the film's use of pointy eared Vulcans, the gold uniform shirts, and the Klingon language, were an unauthorized use of the "Star Trek" lore, CBS and Paramount argue about the crowdfunded project.
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Finland-based Internet of Things startup Haltian, which back in 2014 crowdfunded an IoT developer device aimed at lowering the barrier of entry to building connected devices, is lining up its next IoT device: a tracker phone for parents to give younger kids.
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Shop the G-RO Backpack XV Classic, $235Read our review of G-RO hereKickstarter and Indiegogo phenom G-RO became the most successful crowdfunded luggage campaign in history in 2017, rolling out with a smart carry-on that featured unique, oversized wheels.
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Crowdfunded by a global band of CFS/ME sufferers, their families and patient activists, Tuller has since October 0003 published more than 140 blog posts amounting to tens of thousands of words attacking studies of psychological treatments and conferences that have showcased them.
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This in itself was a stage two media strategy: The company had launched on Kickstarter with a lot of fanfare prior to this — another notable trend for CES this year, where another crowdfunded blockbuster, the Pebble Smartwatch, exhibited for the first time, too.
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The long lead time and the fact that Teamosa is a new company looking to fund a first time hardware product on Kickstarter are possible causes of concern, but with any crowdfunded project like this, it's best to use your own judgement before backing.
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The inaugural project from Hasbro's crowdfunded HasLab required that 5,000 people sign up for the $500 toy before it would be willed into existence, and a grand total of 8,810 got in line, so now Hasbro is making the toy for a February release.
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The Auxillite's simple aluminum design makes it look like something I'd be Okay with having on my phone The Auxillite is another crowdfunded adapter that hopes to make up for Apple's 3.5mm omission by adding a Lightning port and headphone jack to the iPhone 7.
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Those pick-ups include Teddy Dief, an artist and designer best known for his work on the crowdfunded hit Hyper Light Drifter, and Renaud Bédard, the sole programmer on seminal puzzle-platformer Fez, who most recently worked at Below developer Capy Games in Toronto.
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The Planetary Society has launched a new mission control dashboard for LightSail 2, a crowdfunded spacecraft currently in orbit that's going to test the performance of a true solar sail that's moved only by the force of photons from the sun bouncing off its fabric.
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To counter the flood of digital fake news, Wales, whose founding of the online encyclopedia Wikipedia stands as one of the shining successes of the internet era, has announced plans for a for-profit, crowdfunded news website offering stories by journalists and volunteers working together.
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The crowdfunded film follows a young woman walking through a combination of Medellín, Colombia and a virtual, augmented reality world filled with real-life popup ads, virtual barking dog mini games, "ongoing" VR calls, and muggers who steal your blood to steal your identity.
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So Ms. Moran and Ms. Dhody — with George Leader, an archaeologist at The College of New Jersey, and Jared Beatrice, an osteologist at the college — started the Arch Street Project, a mostly crowdfunded attempt to understand more about the lives of these early Philadelphians.
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" Tom Grundy, founder of crowdfunded media outlet Hong Kong Free Press, tweeted that the coming crackdown "may be worse than post-2014," predicting that China would attempt to justify the clampdown on pro-democratic forces in the name of "public safety" and "national security.
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This is also a big achievement for crowdfunded space exploration — around 50,000 people contributed to the LightSail funding campaign, from across 100 countries, and contributed along with various foundations and corporate sponsor to raise the $7 million used to fund the spacecraft development project and launch.
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Described as an "immersive, psychedelic horror RPG," the game version of Apocalypse Now is being created by a team of industry veterans who previously worked on series like Gears of War and Fallout, as well as successfully crowdfunded projects like Wasteland 2 and Torment: Tides of Numenera.
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If you're not worried about someone swiping your gloves, the Taps will be available through a Kickstarter crowdfunding campaign with delivery expected before the end of the year, assuming, as is the case with all crowdfunded products, it reaches its funding goal and production goes smoothly.
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The problem with real news — and what we can do about it Rob Wijnberg, who crowdfunded a Dutch news site called De Correspondent, says that the current news environment is "all about sensational, exceptional, negative, and current events," which has badly warped our sense of reality.
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"Right to Rise USA will be running the first-ever crowdfunded television ad during the 'Big Game' on Sunday, February 7, 2016 – but we need your help," Mr. Murphy wrote in the email, which was provided to The New York Times and confirmed by the super PAC.
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Usually that would be an extremely lofty goal for a crowdfunded company shipping hardware, but since the actual hardware used in the UnaPhone has been in production by Elephone for some time, it has a far stronger chance of actually shipping over your average hardware startup.
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As researchers pursue links between bacteria and human health, startups stand to benefit Founded by Jessica Richman in 2012, uBiome has gone from a crowdfunded startup that raised $350,000 to begin developing testing for microbiome health to a company that reportedly raised $83 million last year.
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Apple was by no means the first company to release a pair of true wireless earbuds — Earin's crowdfunded wireless earbuds arrived in 2015 — but after the AirPods' release in late 2016, there was a flurry of other headphone companies producing their own takes on the form factor.
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Crowdfunded spacecraft LightSail 2 delivers amazing images of its deployed solar sail Alternatives for in-space propulsion are being pursued, like Accion's electrospray panels, Hall effect thrusters (on SpaceX's Starlink satellites) and light sails — but ultimately, chemical propulsion is the only real option for many missions and craft.
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I know the trend of all-star game devs raking in crowdfunded cash can seem like an unhealthy practice, but I couldn't help but let my smile grow as Yooka-Laylee's Kickstarter effortlessly soaked up 3 million dollars like certain bears had collected golden musical notes in the past.
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But just as he's done with all three of his previous films — the crowdfunded Absentia, cult hit Occulus, and this year's popular but flawed Hush — he seems to cut corners at the expense of his film's overall effectiveness, and rely on ridiculous character decisions to drive the plot.
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The rise to power of a party which started out less than four years ago as a protest movement against global copyright laws, and whose election campaign is partly crowdfunded, would create shockwaves felt far beyond this island of 336,000 people on the edge of the Arctic Circle.
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This pool of crowdfunded money helps Naked Wine invest in its winemakers, but it's also never lost to Angel members; the $40 in the virtual piggy bank can be used on their individual wine orders whenever they like — in other words, it's pretty much like a wine bank account.
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A viral Facebook post allegedly written by a bride who canceled her $30,000 crowdfunded wedding and refused to return the money to her friends and family appears to have been fake and created as a marketing stunt to drive traffic to a new website focused on ~social media drama~.
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It also includes a charger that can actually power the Switch, and serves as a stand for when you're using the console away from a TV. Plus, Nyko is an actual established company which is far more likely to make its shipping deadline than either of the two crowdfunded options.
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SyndicateRoom, the U.K. equity crowdfunding platform that last week announced that the world's first equity-crowdfunded Hollywood film has signed Antonio Banderas to appear in its movie, has some big news of its own today, announcing a £3.1 million ($4.5 million) Series A from a number of heavy hitting angel investors.
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In the age of the internet, manga fans have crowdfunded new editions of several of Tezuka's works, which still retain, even after all these decades, unique and visceral emotive properties: The Japanese edition of The Osamu Tezuka Story first began publishing in serial installments in 1989, shortly after Tezuka's death.
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At a time when many in the media blame Google and Facebook for killing ad revenue, crowdfunded publications show that the direct relationship between readers and reporters in the social media age is the most sustainable way to save journalism — and to keep it focused on the things readers value the most.
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The first batch is expected to ship later this year in June, and while the crowdfunded nature means that there's always some risk, Tiffen is a well established company, making this one of the less riskier Kickstarter projects we've seen when it comes to the likelihood of actually receiving the item you backed.
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Though that's not actual dollars, just pledges, and tier 1 of Reg A+ only allows up to $20 million investment, with an upper limit of $50 million in tier 2, this type of crowdfunded investment shows the potential to gain interest outside traditional venture capital to help small companies gain needed funds.
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To further explore how Orlando's Latinx and LGBTQ communities are coming together to recover and what more needs to be done, Daniel spoke with Nadine Smith, CEO of Equality Florida, an organization working to advance LGBTQ rights in the state and creators of the Pulse Victims Fund, a history-making crowdfunded trust.
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In an email to TechCrunch, Oduwole said there are currently 18 currencies on the platform and the ability to settle in 120 countries, including China and the U.S. Thrive Agric (Nigeria): The company helps smallholder farmers in Nigeria access crowdfunded loans to help grow their crops, as well as help them sell their produce.
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Founded by Yong-bo Bae, Jun Komatsu, Greg Gouty, and Taishi Fukuyama, the team has been pressing vinyl in Japan for a few years and has decided to bring their service to the US. They have completed 2,000 projects since April 2015 and are now aiming at musicians who are launching crowdfunded (Roxy) music projects.
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The start-up, a sort of venture capital fund that calls itself the Decentralized Autonomous Organization, has essentially come out of nowhere in the last month and attracted about $152 million, at last count, from investors around the world like Mr. Stern — making it the most successful crowdfunded venture ever, by a significant margin.
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That is to say, it's simple enough that you can use it absentmindedly to make music while you pace around your apartment, trying to come up with a half-decent headline for the story of crowdfunded music projects at CES you've been writing (a purely hypothetical example that in no way reflects my life).
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We were lucky because despite his good insurance and our good jobs, we were still in a financial free fall — the bills for Aaron's treatment and the birth of our son were still sizeable, even with good insurance --— so our friends and family and perfect strangers crowdfunded a cushion for us to land on.
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The only way to get an existing subreddit taken down is to show it has become a platform for doxxing—which is allegedly what happened on the /r/altright and /r/alternativeright subreddits earlier this week when they posted links to WeSearchr, for a crowdfunded bounty calling for the doxxing of the antifa activist who punched Spencer.
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Man Behind Crowdfunded Submarine Admits That Missing Journalist Died and He Buried Her at Sea…After his vessel sank off the coast of Denmark earlier this month, Peter Madsen, the designer of…Read more ReadThe story of Madsen and his sunken sub has gripped the public's attention in Denmark ever since the inventor emerged to safety on August 11th.
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It's highly unlikely the buyout price exceeded the debt that Pebble racked up over the past five years; and the newly-revealed detail is a sad and final conclusion for a startup that managed to launch its hardware after a record-breaking crowdfunded campaign, captivating a niche crowd of early adopters and app developers with its unique smartwatches.
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Regan is the chef and owner of Michelin-starred Elizabeth Restaurant in Chicago, as well as Japanese-inspired Kitsune; crowdfunded Bunny Bakery and Workshop; Waste Not Beauty; where restaurant waste is converted into skincare products; and, most recently, The Milkweed Inn, the realization of a lifelong dream of merging modern cuisine with the agricultural wildness of her childhood.
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Photos: Kickstarter - Switch-Con & Indiegogo SFANSThe Nintendo Switch seems like it could be the perfect portable gaming console—were it not for the bulky dock required to connect it to a TV. That's why gamers have gotten excited about a pair of compact Switch HDMI adapters currently being crowdfunded, but you might be better off spending your money elsewhere.
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The Republican Plan to Kill the Open Internet New FCC chair Ajit Pai has been clear that he intends to take a "weed whacker" to net neutrality…Read more ReadThe internet activists at the non-profit Fight for the Future have crowdfunded four billboards, so far, that shame the members of congress that voted for the repeal.
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The Casualties of Cool album was crowdfunded through PledgeMusic, raising over 215 percent of the target and allowing his Z² record a full-on publicity campaign and budget, which culminated in a ludicrous performance at London's world-famous Royal Albert Hall, where Townsend is surely the first artist to have graced the stage alongside a fleet of farting ballsacks.
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Today the UK High Court agreed with several aspects of digital and civil rights group Liberty's crowdfunded legal challenge to a portion of the UK's 2016 Investigatory Powers Act that gives the state the power to mandate that communications companies and service providers collect and retain web activity logs, comms metadata and location information on all their users for a full 12 months.
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Oculus co-founder Palmer Luckey may not longer be part of the virtual reality revolution he helped spearhead, but he's not entirely out of the world of VR. Revive, a piece of software that enables Oculus-exclusive games to be played on HTC's Vive headset, recently revealed that Lucky is now contributing $2,000 per month to a crowdfunded development campaign.
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New research seems to demonstrate that a fish called the cleaner wrasse has passed the famous…Read more ReadDoctors Zap the Brains of Awake Brain Surgery Patients to Make Them Laugh and Have FunSome forms of brain surgery require patients to be awake and responsive—a rather unsettling…Read more ReadA Crowdfunded Idea to Clean the Great Pacific Garbage Patch Is Now a $35-Million Nonprofit.
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Comingle's Mod isn't the only crowdfunded sex toy to overpromise and underdeliver: the much hyped Revel Body is no longer available as a consumer product, the smart vibrator Hum only recently started shipping after extensive delays, and projects like the AutoBlow 2 have received lukewarm response even after a successful crowdfunding campaign (and that doesn't even count the ones that totally failed to launch).
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Whether or not the creators of a crowdfunded bionic strapon or artificially intelligent vibrator find success themselves, their unique approaches to pleasure (and demonstrated market appeal) are bound to encourage others to follow in their footsteps, breaking away from the tired assumption that sex toys need do nothing more than just vibrate and penetrate (or, if we're lucky, do both at the same time).
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With the help of a crowdfunded campaign, the Bristol International Balloon Fiesta was able to collect enough donations (over $6,300 as of this writing) to bring the Sith lord home from its global tour The Darth Vader hot air balloon's flight over Bristol is especially significant for Star Wars fans because the city's also the birthplace of David Prowse, the actor who played the character in the original Star Wars trilogy.
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But even if somehow the Dagadam Watch has, bar none, the single greatest smartwatch hardware and interface ever made, beating out Apple's billions of dollars in R&D and Google's teams of top software engineers — which is about as realistic as thinking that your crowdfunded smartphone will somehow top the Galaxy S8 or Apple's next iPhone — it still won't matter so long as Apple and Google have total control over the playing field.
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Shop Black Friday deals at Filippo LoretiThe deal: Up to 70% off sitewide, plus free shippingWhat to buy:Ascari Deep Blue Steel Link, $169 (originally $239) [You save $70] Asea Cream Gold, $129 (originally $199) [You save $70] Read more about Filippo Loreti: How a pair of 20-something brothers from Lithuania are shaking up the luxury watch sceneThe most crowdfunded watch company in history just came out with new watches — all under $300Review: This Kickstarter sensation is making luxury women's watches for less than $250 — here's what we thought
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" It also wants a High Court judicial review of three other bulk powers enshrined in the IP Act that it argues also breach the public's rights — namely: Commenting on the legal challenge in a statement, Liberty's director, Martha Spurrier, said: "Last year, this government exploited fear and distraction to quietly create the most extreme surveillance regime of any democracy in history… We hope anybody with an interest in defending our democracy, privacy, press freedom, fair trials, protest rights, free speech and the safety and cybersecurity of everyone in the UK will support this crowdfunded challenge, and make 2017 the year we reclaim our rights.
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