"Kickstarter" Blogs & Blog Posts

Ed Cunningham, an ESPN sports analyst and documentary producer, is using Kickstarter to raise funds for a film about a man whose severed leg was the subject of a legal custody battle.    ...

There's plenty of buzz about the concept of making our cities "smarter" -- that is, loading them up with sensors and data-driven services to improve efficiency and quality of life. Hell, even Google has taken to loading up its event venues with score...

Digital cameras are great, but like most electronics, they likely won't withstand the test of time in, say, a century from now. So Slovenian industrial designer and self-taught carpenter Elvis Halilović developed pinhole cameras that he and his...

NASA may have retired the space shuttle, but that doesn't mean amateur explorers need to stay grounded, right? The Kua Fu Initiative is a photo project raising funds through Kickstarter to send a payload capsule into the lower stratosphere to captur...

The quantified self movement's gaining steam, with companies creating all sorts of gadgets to track our activity levels, sleeping habits and even what's going on inside our heads. Melon's an EEG headband that taps into your brain's inner workings to...

If you've tried every alarm clock app and gadget under the sun but waking up on time still proves difficult, a beside companion that dances and talks might do the trick. No, it's not a human, it's a robot. Southern California-based Nuts and Voltz has...

These days, even lamps in your house can be programmed via Arduino. A Canadian design company called Fabule has developed Clyde, an LED desk lamp that can be programmed with personality modules in its "brain." It's compatible with Arduino, an open-so...