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Genius Accessory Converts Your Bicycle Into An E-Bike [Video]
16 Aug 2019 by Carrie / No Comments
CLIP is an innovative new invention that turns any ordinary bike into an E-bike in seconds, and we’re fans for a couple of reasons.
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Introducing The Most Pointless Way To Eat A Pizza [Video]
09 Jan 2019 by Carrie / No Comments
In the endless struggle between human and pizza, one guy has come up with a tool to make sure we always come out on top.
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“Secret Hitler” And Three Other Things That Were Funded Via Kickstarter
20 Sep 2017 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
What the hell is a ‘Secret Hitler’, right? Turns out it’s a board game that is proving pretty popular, funded with the help of Kickstarter. It’s not the only one.
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Epic New Kickstarter Campaign Raises Tons Of Money For Floating Air Bonsais [Video]
26 Jan 2016 by Kiernan / No Comments
Just when you think you’ve seen it all you lay eyes on the Air Bonsai, a plant that floats in mid-air and rotates whilst doing so.
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David Hasselhoff’s New Music Video Is Awesome
17 Apr 2015 by Kiernan / No Comments
Feeling nostalgic and in need of a throwback to the 1980’s? Well you’re in luck, because the Hoff’s new music video is about as’ 80’s cheese’ as you will ever see.
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Exploding Kittens Is The Highest Backed Kickstarter Project Ever
29 Jan 2015 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
Ah, card games… Nothing like a good one when you need to finish that six pack of beer, that half bottle of red wine and the tequila. All in one glass. Here’s a new one…
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STOP EVERYTHING – Has Someone Just Invented An ACTUAL Hoverboard? [Video]
23 Oct 2014 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
While many have tried and failed, some engineers have maintained the search for the holy grail of urban transportation: the hoverboard.
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An Honest Kickstarter Campaign [VIDEO]
20 Mar 2014 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Finally a Kickstarter campaign video that shoots from the hip. It seems like every person with a half-arsed idea, thinks that their business idea is worth crowdfunding. Labeling your startup as indie doesn’t merit scamming gullible people on the internet for their milk money.
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Kung Fury – Possibly The Best Kickstarter Campaign In The History Of Humankind [VIDEO]
08 Jan 2014 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Kung Fury is a visually spectacular action comedy that has it’s foundation in 80s cop movies. In the movie, Kung Fury travels back in time from the 80s to kill Hitler. Best plot ever, right? But because popular cinema is all about movies we would rather not talk about *coughFrozencough*, David Sandberg (the movie’s director and star) has taken to Kickstarter to help him raise the $1,000,000 he needs to make the film.
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Forbes’ Hottest Global Startups Of 2013
17 Dec 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Judging the success of an individual startup company is complex. Forbes has researched its way through swathes upon swathes of startup companies, in an attempt to quantify the most successful new businesses of 2013. This is their list.
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This Is How You Kickstart A Successful Kickstarter Campaign [INFOGRAPHIC]
17 Dec 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Crowd funding. Sounds easy, dunnit? Just ask people for money and you shall receive. But it’s not that simple.
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First Coffee Machine Ever To Roast, Grind And Brew [VIDEO]
09 Dec 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Sure, we have those coffee-makers that grind, brew and spit out coffee at the push of a button, but what if we really wanted to roast our beans too?
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SA Tourism Company Raising Cash For Google Glass City Tours
13 Aug 2013 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
Cape Town based firm, Tourism Radio wants to bring their interactive travel guides together with Google Glass, and give tourists the ultimate experience. The company is crowdfunding on Kickstarter to raise R530,000 for their venture. They hope to roll the product out in April 2014
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Meet The Men Planning On Building A Space Railroad [VIDEO]
31 Jul 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
A group of guys on Kickstarter are trying to get people to help them build the Slingatron – a coil of railroad that basically shoots things into space. On the campaign page they explain their invention as such: “The Slingatron space launcher is an earth-based mechanical hypervelocity mass accelerator.” Their vision: We want to open up space […]
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Guy Raises R1,2 Million On Kickstarter – Walks Away And Blows Cash
26 Jul 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Erik Chevalier came up with a “nerd-approved” board game that he used to trick people into giving him money. The people who fell for the trap, ended up giving away over R1 million to a guy that was taking them for a ride. This is what The Doom That Came To Atlantic City was about: […]
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Stop Everything – They’ve Made A Brand New ‘Leisure Suit Larry’
28 Jun 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
The new and improved ‘Leisure Suit Larry’ funded by Kickstarter may be too much. First published in 1987 with Leisure Suit Larry in the Land of the Lounge Lizards, the game has some new features.
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Veronica Mars Fans Raise $3,2 Million On Kickstarter To Get Movie Made
15 Mar 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Kickstarter has been flooded by “Veronica Mars” fans attempting to bring their dream of a movie closer to reality by pleding money to raise funds. Currently the pot is sitting at $3,2 million (R30,5 million), which is a hell of a lot more than the goal of $2 million for this project. Yesterday, fans smashed […]
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Fight Church: Where Mixed Martial Arts And Evangelical Christianity Collide [VIDEO]
19 Jun 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
You just cannot make this stuff up! Fight Church is an upcoming documentary about the combination of Christianity and Mixed Martial Arts. The film follows several pastors and fighters in a quest to reconcile their faith with this violent sport.
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Amanda Palmer Is Crowdsourcing Her New Album [VIDEO]
07 May 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
You guys have heard of Kickstarter – that site that lets people pitch their projects for funding to the internet at large, and which has led to new apps, art projects, and a Robocop statue in Detroit. All of which stopped mattering when Amanda Palmer raised $500 000 in four days on the platform – with 24 days of funding remaining.
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Somebody Wants To Build A Functional AT-AT Walker. From Star Wars.
15 Apr 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
A life-sized, functional, AT-AT Walker. From The Empire Strikes Back. You know – those big walking four-legged suckers. If you’re still reading this I assume you know what I’m talking about, so click through to read about a giant nerd’s awesome plan to crowdsource building this thing.
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Detroit Will Have A Statue Of RoboCop
17 Feb 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
I love the internet. So we told you last week about Detroit’s Mayor, Dave Bing, shooting down the RoboCop statue proposal, and the KickStarter initiative that was trying to build the thing anyway. Well, they’ve raised the necessary $50,000 in a little under a week, so you know. Your move, Bing.
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Detroit Does Need A Statue Of Robocop
11 Feb 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 4 Comments
Since the 7th of February, when some random guy posted a comment on Dave Bing, the mayor of Detroit’s Twitter feed suggesting a statue of Robocop be erected in that city, the internet has been ablaze with ideas on how to achieve the feat.
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