Awesome Stuff: Open Source For Your Brain
Last year, a pair of creators crowdfunded OpenBCI — an open source software suite and interface board that made biosensing — taking readings of electricity in the human body, especially the brain —...
View ArticleAwesome Stuff: Let's Bore The Censors
Film ratings and content warnings seem like a perfectly harmless and sensible idea in theory, but in practice they become a tool of censorship and industry protectionism. The UK has its own issues in...
View ArticleAwesome Stuff: A New Approach To Smartphone VR
Google Cardboard is a wonderful way to make virtual reality more accessible (you can even grab one on sale in the Insider Shop) but it still has its limitations. Today we're looking at a new twist on...
View ArticleAwesome Stuff: Artisanal Handheld Games
This one's for collectors and folks with a little cash to spare: Pixel Vision, a beautiful hand-made game emulator from Sweden. The Good Love Hultén is a designer who makes incredible video game...
View ArticleAwesome Stuff: Towards The Future Of Drones
I've seen crowdfunding projects for personal drones that promise the moon and obviously fail to deliver — and it's not surprising that this happens and even sometimes works, given the automatic sci-fi...
View ArticleAwesome Stuff: Monthly Maker Kits
Some truly DIY-inclined people never run out of ideas, and are always brimming with projects they want to undertake. The rest of us occasionally need a nudge in the right direction, and for that...
View ArticleAwesome Stuff: A Post-Holiday Grab Bag
This week, instead of a closer look at one product, we're rounding up a bunch of interesting Kickstarter campaigns that aim to ship in 2016. So, if you didn't get everything you wanted this Christmas...
View ArticleAwesome Stuff: Gadgets For The New Year
Happy New Year, everyone! This week we're kicking off 2016's Awesome Stuff posts with another round-up of three crowdfunding projects for interesting new gadgets and gear. The TESLA Electronic Lighter...
View ArticleAwesome Stuff: Simple Geeky Toys
With CES wrapping up today, the internet is awash in rundowns of the greatest new gadgets, and these days it's barely newsworthy that this or that product was partially funded on Kickstarter or...
View ArticleAwesome Stuff: One Great Knob
For the past few weeks, we've been looking at selections of cool Kickstarter projects — but this week we're going back to taking a closer look at one interesting offering: the nOb, a multi-functional...
View ArticleAwesome Stuff: Crafts Of All Kinds
This week, we're taking a look at a trio of interesting crowdfunded offerings that each take a lot of craftsmanship of entirely different sorts. JS Shoes This project comes from a designer with a...
View ArticleAwesome Stuff: Celebrating Cities
This week, we're looking at a pair of crowdfunded projects for proud urbanites: artwork that celebrates our streets and cityscapes. Microscape Models There's no shortage of souvenirs in the name of...
View ArticleAwesome Stuff: Updated Classics
This week, we've got three crowdfunding projects for wonderfully inventive reimaginings of common objects that haven't changed much in a very long time. Lumir C Candles are a fine source of light, but...
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Awesome Stuff: Beyond Chiptunes
My criteria for the projects in these posts is simple: I look for things that make me say "hey, that's pretty awesome," whether or not I'm entirely sure if they need to exist. But once in a while...
View ArticleAwesome Stuff: Tech Toys
This week, we've got a lineup of crowdfunded fun with three high-tech toys, only one of which is designed primarily for kids (and it's the most mature and productive of the three). FDL-1 The foam dart...
View ArticleAwesome Stuff: Play & Listen
More often than not, when dealing with music-related stuff in this column, we've focused on music creation tools. But this week, we've got a pair of crowdfunded products for music and audio lovers....
View ArticleAwesome Stuff: Cool Components
It's another good week for makers and tinkerers on Kickstarter, with some cool new tools that make traditionally high-end technology available on a budget, plus another kid's toy that might catch the...
View ArticleAwesome Stuff: Monitor Everything
This week, we've got three new crowdfunded products that let you monitor things in new ways — two that provide data you've likely never had access to before, and a third that takes webcams to the next...
View ArticleAwesome Stuff: Cords & Cables
There's no escaping it: our wireless age still requires plenty of wires. Cables for your devices are a dime a dozen these days, but that doesn't mean there isn't occasionally an interesting innovation...
View ArticleAwesome Stuff: The Truth About Encryption
Support our crowdfunding campaign today! Awesome Stuff is normally about highlighting interesting crowdfunding projects from others, but this week it's time for a little shameless self-promotion,...
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