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Darkmatter flaunts its Xbox 360 laptop Kickstarter project at Maker Faire

Darkmatter's portable open source Xbox 360 project may have hit Kickstarter with bad timing, but it looks to be drawing crowds all the same.

Kickstarter for Soylent "default meal" product wildly successful, despite inherentgrossness

Why, yes, a project called Soylent Corporation, promising a "default meal product" called Soylent, did just raise a quarter million bucks on Kickstarter. And Kickstarter is also made of people.

Cool New Platform For Supporting Artists: Patreon, From Jack Conte

I'm obviously a big fan of crowdfunding platforms like Kickstarter, but I've always argued that it's just one of many models that content creators can use to succeed today.

Vertus Makes Any Speaker Bluetooth Friendly

Syncing audio to a Bluetooth speaker is a common practice these days, but sending it wirelessly to two old-school speakers at the same time is a thing of the future.

Hovertrax is Like a Segway Without Handlebars

Vancouver, Wash.-based company Investist has a new idea for rolling in style. It's called Hovertrax, and it's an auto-balancing, electronic transporter with two-wheeled gyro technology — or, more simply, a wiggle board with power.

Geeky tornado relieffundraisers

Alan sez, "Two items here on the same theme: Ruben Bolling, comic author of Tom The Dancing Bug, contributor to JoCo Funnies, etc. has a raffle posted on his blog.

Zach Braff Taught Woody Allen About Crowd Funding, Plus "Wish I Was Here" Updates

Hating on Zach Braff has become the cool thing to do. The reason being the actor/director took to Kickstarter in April to fund his next movie, Wish I Was Here. It was a polarizing move because many people felt Braff had enough clout to get traditional funding.

Sensors Are Everywhere, And A New Project Wants To Bring Them To The Classroom For Cheap

One interesting element of Google I/O this year were the sensors laid out everywhere around Moscone tracking environmental data throughout the event.

Heavy Gear Assault kicks off its crowdfunding campaign

Stompy Bot Productions and Mektek Studios have launched their Kickstarter project for Heavy Gear Assault, the return of the mech combat game originally introduced by Dream Pod 9, with later games published by Activision.

A.N.N.E. Kickstarter concludes at over $100,000

After clearing its $70,000 goal more than a week in advance, the A.N.N.E. Kickstarter has concluded at $100,272. The total is enough to unlock three of ANNE's stretch goals, namely Mac & Linux versions, gender swap mode and achievements, and New Game+.