Kickstarter Raspberry Pi Project for Kids: Spy v. sPi
For the purposes of this blog post, let’s say there are two kinds of parents in the world. One kind would tell their kids to …
Category: Kickstarter
$1000 Steerable Electric Scooter From Cycleboard
For those who want a more adult scooter experience, Cycleboard has this tri-wheel contraption that gives you a stable ride. It’s Lithium-ion batteries let the …
Fret Friend: Play by Numbers Guitar Picking on Kickstarter
Yeah, I took up guitar when I was about 12 and could kind of strum my way through “Leaving on a Jet Plane.” I left …
Quadrofoil Ramps Up Production
Happy 2016! My usual excuse for not blogging more frequently on TvB is that I’ve been busy on my other show. That’s still holds true …
Itero: Pocket Watch Launches on Kickstarter
Itero disrupts the wearables industry with a notification-free gadget that’s purpose-built to continually show the time of day. Their display unit is based on light …
Lima: Secure Personal Cloud At Last
I’ve been busy over at my other show exploring insider data theft and IT sabotage. Thankfully my long awaited beta version of Lima showed up in …
SipSup: Photo Sharing Drinking Glass on Kickstarter
My blogging has been on vacation the last few weeks. I was away on holiday in southern Spain—biking the Andalusian countryside—and then after returning I …
Autonomous Desk: An AI-Powered Desk on Kickstarter
Remember Robotbase, the group behind an autonomous mobile personal robot? I wrote about their scarily smart bot back in January. Anyway, Robotbase now calls itself …
SipaBoard: Slovenian Stand Up Paddle Board (SUP) Kickstarter Project
We’re starting to see a pattern. Another email from a Slovenian engineer, another project having do with hi-tech nautical-ware. This time our engineer, Sebastjan Sitar, …
Brief Chat with Robotbase’s Duy Huynh
Last week I talked to Robotbase’s founder Duy Huynh about his impressively capable Personal Robot. I was mostly interested in real-world use cases for this …
More Kickstarter Projects: Robotbase’s Personal AI-bot
Robotbase’s Personal Robot is the most ambitious project that I’ve seen so far on Kickstarter. If the pitch video of this mobile Siri-like bot is anywhere …
Waiting on Lima: Ups and Downs of Watching a Kickstarter Project
Almost a year ago I wrote about a Kickstarter project formerly known as Plug. They debuted just as the Snowden revelations about Prism were making …
Croosle: Cute Programming Kit with Sensor on Kickstarter
Croosle is a hardware-based Kickstarter project that we just learned about. Croosle originates from Ljubljana, Slovenia. According to Google Translate, lustna means cute in Slovenian …
NYU Game Center on Kickstarter
Did you know there’s a Kickstarter page devoted to projects launched by NYU Game Center students? Game Center kids have a pretty good track record …
Tangeez Goes Kickstarter: interactive light emitting blocks for the masses
Back in July, while randomly wandering the aisles of CE Week, I came across a stack of soothing light-emitting pucks that captured my attention and …