Category: Kickstarter

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Someone Finally Fixed The Ice-cream Scooper – Startup Of The Month

Midnight Scooper is the September winner of our “Startup Of The Month” prize. See past winners here. Anyone who has ever scooped ice cream straight out of the freezer, knows the pain of jabbing the scooper in as deeply as you can, chiseling off bits and pieces like a stone-mason. Finally an engineering student from UCSD, Michael Chou, has solved the scooper problem. By adjusting...

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Decibullz Contour: A Perfect Fit, But Imperfect Sound

This is my review of the Decibullz Countour headphones, one of our first startups of the month. I paid $40 for these on Kickstarter, but now they’ll set you back $60. Ordering them In late November of 2013, I came across a cool Kickstarter project that offered custom-fit headphones for $40. I was so thrilled that I named it December’s startup of the month. I...

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Decibullz Affordable Custom-fit Earbuds – December Startup of the Month

December is here, and the holidays are in full swing (our gift guide linked), so I thought I’d focus on a very giftable, consumer-focussed startup this month. December’s startup of the month is Decibullz, one of the two only Kickstarter projects I’ve ever supported,  and one I’m very excited about. * Read about past startups of the month, or recommend your favorite startup in the...

Microsoft Invented the Pebble smartwatch

What if I told you there’s a smartwatch on the market for $150 with a dozen digital watch faces, personalized news, traffic, weather, email, text messaging, and calendar? What if I told you that this watch was put on the market a decade ago, and built by Microsoft? As much as this sounds like the crowdfunded Pebble smart watch, which raised $10 million on...

2013: The Year of the Light Bulb?

Legend has it that it took Thomas Edison 1000 tries to perfect his lightbulb. Oddly enough, given the technical innovation we’ve seen in the past few decades, the bulbs we use are largely the same as they were a century ago. Sign up for our newsletter here. 2013 seems to be the year of the lightbulb, with a variety of new lightbulbs hitting the...