Kickstarter proposal for a new Android Family Mini PC with a companion mobile Android app The vast majority of attention when it comes to Android devices is in the tablet and smartphone arenas. After all, Android was developed specifically with mobile devices in mind; it’s not surprising that that’s where the action is. But the [...]
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Gaming Foot Controller for PC Launches Kickstarter Campaign
When you think about gaming controllers there is the keyboard & mouse and traditional console controller that immediately spring to mind. Then you might think about the Wii and Kinect motion controllers, or perhaps driving controllers or flight sticks for specialized games. Everything based on hands – but what about your feet? That is exactly [...]
Divinity Original Sin Launches Kickstarter Campaign
Increasingly developers are not just looking to Kickstarter for full funding of a project, but also to help get specific features into a game, deliver multiplayer or extended art or something else. Developer Larian Studios looked at what they could do themselves, and decided that with a successful Kickstarter project they could realize all of [...]
Devotec Fuel Is the World’s Tiniest Cellphone Charger
One of the big PITAs with modern smartphones that I’m sure you’ve noticed just as much as I have is: They suck power like a toddler sucks down a juice box on a hot day at the park. The iPhone that I keep with me at all times has more computing power, more functionality, and [...]
iKazoo is on IndieGoGo
Back in December I wrote about an intriguing new controller called the iKazoo, which I described as an ‘everything controller’, since it has dual breath controllers, multiple touch sensors, accelerometers, and so on. With the iKazoo you can make music, control music, play games, and pretty much do anything else you want. At the time [...]
John-E-Reader Makes Your Bathroom Safe for Kindles
Sarah and I are getting settled into our new home and are quite pleased. It’s really great…there’s just one minor issue. See, the first floor has a bathroom (which is great) but the sink doesn’t have much of a lip to rest items like reading material. So the John-E-Reader at Kickstarter caught my eye! The [...]
Mage’s Initiation Brings a Classic Sierra-style Adventure Game to Kickstarter!
There are various reasons to back a Kickstarter project: you might directly want to experience the product, or perhaps like the idea and want it to happen, or maybe the project is in an area you feel is underserved, or maybe the project is funded and you see benefits to the ‘stretch goals’. Whatever the [...]
Sinister Design Re-Launches Telepath Tactics Kickstarter!
Last fall Sinister Design, creators of the excellent ‘Telepath RPG: Servants of God’, launched a Kickstarter for its ever-expanding game Telepath Tactics that would allow Craig Stern to properly complete the game with all of the desired features. That effort failed to gain proper support, but Stern he had learned from the attempt and knew [...]
Nifty MiniDrive Kickstarter Project Finally Ships
Judie and I were on the phone together while ordering our 15″ MacBook pro with Retina display laptops, so we could discuss the specific specs we wanted. At the end of the day we both went for the fastest processor (Core i7) and most RAM (16GB) we could get. Judie had just about convinced me [...]
JuiceCan Portable Power Recharger Now Available
There are a couple of things about the JuiceCan Portable Power Recharger I want to mention to y’all. First is the most obvious one: It’s a device that’s more eye-catching than your typical flat-black brick o’ power. Now, I prefer the “form over function” design strategy, and my portable power brick is pretty dull looking, but [...]
Sonar Linux Aims to Make Linux Accessible to All
Over the years that I have worked in an IT support role, I have often had the experience of talking to people who didn’t have perfect eyesight or who might have other disabilities. What might be easy for you or me to do on a computer might be extremely difficult for someone who doesn’t have [...]
VIVAX Would Be the James Bond of All Notebook Cases
When it comes to protecting your gear with cases, unless you’re like my kids and only want a case that’s going to serve as decoration (and a lot of teens seem to be in that category), you have to perform a dance between convenience and durability. Take Otterbox as an example; the cases are [...]
Foam iPhone Cases Kickstarter Project
A couple of years ago on Christmas, I got the kids iPhones as their “big gift”. They were teens now, they had already spent several years “practicing” with less expensive (usually “free with contract”) phones, the iPhone had been on the market a while, and they really really really really (repeat several hundred times) wanted [...]
Orp Smart Horn Will Improve Safety and Visibility for Cyclists on the Road
I live in Austin, which we like to think of as “The Live Musical Capital of the World” (and honestly it probably is), but which is also a huge biking mecca. He-who-must-not-be-named is from here, and the number of teams and individual cyclists who are out on the road regularly is simply staggering. And just [...]
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