Tag Archives: Kickstarters
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DipClip: A Dipping Sauce Holder for the Car
I often imagine what Jack the Dipper‘s car – which I have dubbed DIPP – is like. One essential component of this imaginary automobile would have to be a space for dipping sauce while popping McNuggets behind the wheel, a fantastical, impractical device for those of us who inhabit the real world. OR IS IT?? […]
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Vortx: Feel the Elements from TV, Movies, and Video Games
4D effects: They aren’t exclusively the province of weird tourist attractions in towns like Gatlinburg or San Antonio anymore. Now, there’s Vortx, a gadget that you can hook up to your TV or computer in order to feel on-screen elements – like wind and fire – inside the comfort of your own home, which presumably […]
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Magno Ink: “The World’s Most Intelligent Magnetically Energised Pen”
I was a nervous, anxious child, and that meant I spent a lot of time clicking pens on and off in my idle moments. My mom used to tell me that this was a bad habit, not just because it’s annoying to other people in the room but also because every pen has a limited […]
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SIXOVERONE: “The Six Pack Bottle Opener”
Hopefully for your own sake your kitchen is stocked with plenty of functional devices, so you can be prepared for whatever eventualities may occur there. But how many of that kitchen gear can double as a party trick? SIXOVERONE is a new “six pack bottle opener” that does just that, provided you like to party […]
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Be.: “The First Battery-Free, Powered Toothbrush”
Electric toothbrushes are great for your oral health, not just the teeth but the gums as well. But let’s be honest, there are some downsides to the electric toothbrush life. First and foremost is the fact that you have to keep them charged up, either with fresh batteries or hooked up to the wall. That’s […]
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Firelight Flask: A Flask Built for Sharing
Containers designed for alcoholic beverages don’t get much more implicitly solitary than the traditional pocket flask – I mean, the stereotypical manner in which to drink from the flask is furtively, ideally without anyone even knowing you’re getting progressively drunker. The Firelight Flask is a variation on the traditional flask that has a much more […]
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Mitte: “Create Your Own Mineral Water, Just Like Nature”
The tech world is still licking its wounds over that whole embarrassing Juicero debacle, when it turned out that you could save hundreds of dollars on “the world’s first home cold-press juicing machine” by simply squeezing the juice packs with your hands over a glass. So I have to give it up to the folks […]
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Qwest TV: A New Video Streaming Service for Jazz by Quincy Jones
Producer and composer Quincy Jones has evidently wanted to start a TV channel dedicated to jazz and various other related forms of music for a while now. But he only recently got just such a project funded through Kickstarter: It’s called Qwest TV, and it’s now “coming to a screen near you” sometime in the […]
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Cups Coffee: Coffee Pods Perfected
Keurig and other comparable single-serving coffee pod brands are mighty convenient, but they carry a host of inevitable downsides that go along with that convenience. From a coffee lover’s (and not an environmentalist’s) point of view, one of the biggest of those downsides is the fact that the coffee inside the K-Cups isn’t fresh – […]
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Xcissor Pen: “One Mighty Scissors Hidden in Your Sleek Pen”
There are plenty of multitool pens out there – this is one of them (hey, I’m not in advertising here). It’s the Xcissor Pen, which introduces a pair of scissors into the pen’s usual duties of drawing and writing in ink. It’s presented as a solution to an everyday dilemma – it’s normal enough to […]
