Crowd Funded Project of the Week - MaxStone

This week's Crowd Funded Project of the Week is MaxStone.  MaxStone uses your smart phone to provide a single button remote for your camera.  Hard to explain - watch the video!



This is both a beautiful design and a beautiful kickstarter project.  Take a close look at the kickstarter project page.  This is a great model for anyone considering a kichstarter campaign.

Project Link:  http://kck.st/19kttg4

Crowd-Funded Project of the Week: The Roost

This week's Crowd-Funded Project of the week is "The Roost."  The Roost is a laptop holder designed to improve posture and decrease nerve damage for laptop users.  Carbon Fiber, Collapses to a a very small footprint.  Looks like very nice engineering to me.

 From Kickstarter.com

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/86285180/the-roost-saving-your-neck-and-back-from-your-lapt?ref=category

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"

Kickstarter Project - a new concept in 3d printing

This is an AWESOME project on Kickstarter.com

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1351910088/3doodler-the-worlds-first-3d-printing-pen?ref=NewsFeb2113&utm_campaign=Feb21&utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter

Massively overfunded - but the project is still open if you want to participate. . . .

The Best of Kickstarter 2012

I funded my first Kickstarter project and signed up for Kickstarter's mail list.  The first mail was a link to an awesome review of Kickstarter's successes from last year.  Check out the slides by following this link:  http://www.kickstarter.com/year/2012

Is there a kickstarter funded project in your future?  It is well worth a look!  Check out Kickstarter at kickstarter.com.

PS  The project I funded is the "Fishbone," a paracord fastening system.  It is made by a metal worker who posts metalwork projects on Instructables (instructables.com) as "Mr. Balang."  His work is always very cool.

World's thinnest watch

Here is a kickstarter.com project with promise.  CST-01 The Worlds Thinnest Watch is half funded with 44 days to go.  Check out the video:

I love the minimalist design.  They cut a channel into stainless steel to hold the electronics keeping the width just .5 MM.  It takes about $100 of funding to get a watch.

Well done Central Standard Time!

Close doesn't count . . .

Boing Boing highlights a kickstarter campaign that fell $28 short of a $50,000 project.

http://boingboing.net/2012/12/02/alpha-colony-misses-50k-kicks.html

Kickstarter is a platform for innovation.  It allows projects to advertise their funding needs, benefits to contributors, and project descriptions.  You set up a target date and a funding requirement.  Contributors pledge moneys and when the total contributions match or exceed the funding requirement the project is a go and the project lead gets the cash (less a small % to Kickstarter).

There is a great discussion in the comments - be sure to scroll down.