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Crowdfunding Picks: Throw Trucks With Your Mind & Other Cool Control Interfaces
For many, many years, we've talked about all kinds of business models, including ideas (and early attempts) at crowdfunding before "crowdfunding' was a word. Obviously, over the past couple years,...
View ArticleAwesome Stuff: Rethinking The Mouse (Finally!)
So folks seemed to enjoy last week's crowdfunding picks post, and the Saturday morning time slot seemed to work, so we'll stick with it. Still not sure on a name, but someone suggested "awesome...
View ArticleAwesome Stuff: Little Devices That Help You Out
For this week's "Awesome Stuff" post I wasn't necessarily planning a "theme," but it seemed to mostly work out as one anyway: it's about three "little" devices that enable you to do more, by changing...
View ArticleAwesome Stuff: Life Never Sounded So Good... On The Go
So we're back with another week of awesome stuff. I really did not intend for each week to have a theme, but that's sort of how it's worked out for the past few weeks, and why stop now? This week,...
View ArticleAwesome Stuff: Computers And Gesture Input Devices
Okay, I really thought this week was going to be the one where our awesome stuff posts didn't have a theme. But... because of some last minute finds, you not only get two separate themes, but also...
View ArticleAwesome Stuff: Lasers, Infrared And Photons
Another week, more awesome crowdfunding projects. No need to waste time with the intro, let's get right to it. Lasertag has been around for a while but a bunch of students (high school?) have tried...
View ArticleAwesome Stuff: Ferrofluid
Last week you got to see four projects, so hopefully you banked that extra one, because this week we're going with just two. However, they're both projects involving ferrofluid that are perhaps...
View ArticleAwesome Stuff: Refining The Wheel
Even up here in Toronto, winter is starting to give way to spring. Among other things, that means getting around is becoming a lot easier — and a lot more fun. It's the time of year that cities start...
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Awesome Stuff: Three Kickstarters From Musicians You've Read About Here Before
Since we began the awesome stuff series of posts about cool crowdfunded projects to check out each week, they've mostly focused on cool physical objects. However, obviously, we talk a lot about music...
View ArticleAwesome Stuff: Films About Things Techdirt Talks About
For this week's awesome stuff post, we've got links to movies about things that we regularly talk about here on Techdirt: the prosecution of Aaron Swartz, the CFAA, patents and piracy. First up, is a...
View ArticleAwesome Stuff: Time To Rethink Your Keyring
I've joked before about how Kickstarter seems to have a new type of wallet launched every other day or so, but it also seems to be trying to offer a reinvention for the other thing most people keep in...
View ArticleAwesome Stuff: Cool Product Designs
For this week's awesome stuff, we've got three different projects that just caught my eye for being different and interesting in a design sense. I don't know about you, but I've had a few too many...
View ArticleAwesome Stuff: Dealer's Choice
If you haven't yet, you owe it to yourself to read Grantland's long, but fascinating, oral history of the 2003 World Series of Poker -- which more or less made Texas Hold 'Em poker super famous, made...
View ArticleAwesome Stuff: Print Stuff, Make Stuff
One of the biggest and most important trends right now is the increasing ability for people to make physical stuff that used to be impossible to make themselves. 3D printing is, obviously, a big part...
View ArticleAwesome Stuff: Maps Aren't Just An App On Your Phone
I don't know why I've been thinking about maps lately -- perhaps it's because I've been traveling, and as this is posted, I'll actually be in an airplane flying home. I've always been a fan of maps --...
View ArticleAwesome Stuff: Have A Cool Drink This Weekend
For this week's awesome stuff post, we're going to suggest it's about time you kicked back and had a cool drink. You deserve it. Thankfully, there are a bunch of crowdfunding projects to help you make...
View ArticleAwesome Stuff: The Future Is Finally Coming To Home Automation
By now, weren't we all supposed to have little personal assistants that manage our lives, and weren't our homes supposed to be "smart homes" with fancy sensors to better manage everything? We've been...
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Awesome Stuff: Ambitious Projects
For our latest awesome stuff post, I thought perhaps we'd look at a few more "ambitious" projects. Many crowdfunding projects are really effectively "presales" of something that people might want: a...
View ArticleAwesome Stuff: Maybe Awesome, But More Info Needed
Given July 4th yesterday, we're taking an extended holiday today as well. We normally post our weekly awesome stuff post about cool crowdfunding campaigns on Saturday, but with the extra off-day, we...
View ArticleAwesome Stuff: Keeping Your Online Activities Private Suddenly More Interesting
Given all the recent leaks about surveillance lately, we figured this week's awesome stuff would look at some crowdfunding projects that are a bit more focused on keeping your online activities...
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