The Bluelace Project

This weeks Crowd-Funded Project of the week is The Blue Lace Project found on Kickstarter.com



I like the message and the approach - count me in for a pair!

Link to the project on Kickstarter:  http://kck.st/1dSXyB8

InStove - Clean Water for Ndola, Zambia

This week's Crowd-Funded Project of the Week is from Indiegogo.com:



This project provides an efficient water purifier for a village where people drink untreated water from the river.  This is a project that saves lives!

Crowd-Funded Project of the Week

This week's crowd-funded project of the week is NOMAD.  An indiegogo.com project that delivers a manufactured micro home.  I've followed the tiny house movement for months and welcome a new manufacturer.




I like the floating structure (no "foundation") and love the tree house example.  It will be interesting to see if a one-size fits all micro home can work.

Link to the project on Indiegogo.com:  http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/nomad-micro-home-easily-assembled-under-30k

Vote for Canary in a Coal Mine!

I got a project update from last week's Crowd-Funded Project of the week - Canary in a Coal Mine

If Canary wins this vote, they get some nice perks.  If you like the project - please vote (Requires an email address).  Go Here to Vote!

Project Update #10: Vote for Canary in a Coal Mine - Help us win Project of the Week! Posted by Jennifer Brea♥ Like

Yesterday, Canary in a Coal Mine was chosen as indieWIRE's project of the day. We are now up for project of the week, and WE NEED YOUR VOTE to win. Voting runs now to Monday, 11AM ET.   

Crowd-Funded Project of the Week - REBIscan

This week's Crowd-Funded Project of the Week is REBIScan, a Fundable.com project that increases accuracy and reduces costs of early vision screening for  amblyopia (AKA Lazy Eye).



Link to project on Fundable.com:  http://www.fundable.com/rebiscan

This disease effects 1 in twenty worldwide, and current screening technology is just 55% effective.  This means that we spend way too much on treatment, and in almost half the cases we treat the wrong child.

This is a great example of a team changing the world for the better by addressing an opportunity that I had not realized existing.

Well done!

Crowd-Funded Project of the Week: Canary in a Coal Mine

This week's Crowd-Funded Project of the Week is a documentary film about the worst disease you've never heard of.  "Canary in a Coal Mine" has met their initial funding goal and is trying to beat the record for number of backers (6509).  I'm in for a buck!



Project Link:  http://kck.st/1df4I5r

Join me and fund this one.

Crowd-Funded Project of the Week - Canary

This week's Crowd-Funded Project of the Week is the Canary. This indiegogo project is a different take on home and personal security that demonstrates the principle of simplicity in design. Great Project!

Crowd-Funded Project of the Week - Sylvia's Water Color Bot

This week's Crowd-Funded project of the Week is "Super Awesome Sylvia's Water Color Bot."   The folks from Evil Mad Scientist labs sponsor this Kickstarter.com project.  This is to be a kit version of a plotter designed to use standard water color paints (with a water dish for wetting and cleaning brushes).

Check out the Video:


Great kids project.  I'm trying to figure out how to justify this for myself!  It would be fun to use this to create posters that appear to be hand-painted :)

Link to the Kickstarter Project:  http://kck.st/10XXagg

Crowd-Funded Project of the Week - The Plastic Bank

This week's Crowd-Funded Project of the Week is from Indiegogo.com.  The Plastic Bank is truly an attempt to change the world for the better.  My only nit is that they are introducing a token economy instead of using regular local currency.

Link to the project's page on IndieGoGo.com:  http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/the-plastic-bank-harvesting-waste-plastic-to-reduce-poverty?c=home

Crowd Funded Project of the Week

This week's Crowd Funded Project of the week is "SIK Board" found on kickstarter.com.  The project launches a new hybrid water vehicle - a stand-up paddle board that is very stable, supports a pedestal seat, two storage bins, and both fishing and scuba rigs.  Nice concept and the prototype looks awesome.



Kickstarter Link:  http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1525317766/the-sik-boardz-project?ref=recently_launched

Crowd-Funded Project of the Week - Lumen Cache

This week's crown-funded project of the week is Lumen Cache: The New Approach to LED Lighting.  This Fundable.com project implements LED lighting on a 12 volt system - avoiding the excess heat and inefficient AC to DC conversion at each fixture.  A side benefit is the battery for energy storage and built in power failure lighting.  Here is the video:

Here is the Fundable Link:  http://www.fundable.com/lumencache

And an engineering diagram from the project's page:

Crowd-Funded Project of the Week - NeoLucida

I find crowd-funded projects fascinating!  In this first installment of a weekly series I highlight an interesting current crown-funded project.

NeoLucida is an optics product and the project to deliver it.  An artist looks into the prism and sees both his subject, and the paper and pencil or brush.  This is an ancient concept, but only available with antiques or very expensive custom builds - until now . . .


I'm funding this one at the $40 level and hope to receive a NeoLucida in exchange.  My creative daughter should get a kick out of this.



Note how heavily this is funded with just a few days of active campaign!  Click through to see that Pablo and Golan have planned for this over-funding - very impressive project planning and risk assessment (yes, in a kickstarter - too much funding is a risk).

Let me know if you like the idea of "Crowd-Funded Project of the Week"