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“If you would like a refund, please contact a fan of my work directly for...
Reason‘s Brian Doherty reports on a fascinating Kickstarter campaign by comic artist John Campbell: For those who think Ayn Rand was just crazily overwrought in the “unrealistic” characters she created...
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Surveillance game – Nothing to Hide
If you’re not worried about the government (or other governments) watching your every move — because you’ve “got nothing to hide” — you might be interested in this game: The tongue-in-cheek game...
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Oculus in the news
Raph Koster reflects on the promise of Oculus: Rendering was never the point. Oh, it’s hard. But it’s rapidly becoming commodity hardware. That was in fact the basic premise of the Oculus Rift: that...
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Market research, disguised as crowdfunding
Virginia Postrel has an interesting take on the current brouhaha over Facebook’s acquistion of formerly crowdfunded Oculus: Crowdfunding sites such as Kickstarter and Indiegogo represent a classic...
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Enigma’s 21st century open sourced descendent
The Enigma device was used by the German military in World War 2 to encrypt and decrypt communication between units and headquarters on land and at sea. Original Enigma units — the few that are on the...
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Market disruption and innovation
Innovation often leads to challenges to established markets. Existing players in those established markets have three choices when faced with a disruptive new competitor or technological change: they...
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The Wikipedia editors circle the wagons
Virginia Postrel talks about the greatest danger to the long-term health of Wikipedia — the diminishing central group of editors who do the most to keep it going: Few of the tens of millions of readers...
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Paging Delos D. Harriman – come to the Kickstarter courtesy phone, please
This is a use of crowdfunding I didn’t expect to see: A group of British scientists have taken to Kickstarter in order to get the first set of funds to attempt a landing on the Moon. All ex-teenage...
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I know several people who’d want one of these
Want a new exotic toy to show off to your buddies after you say “Here, hold my beer”? How about a personal flamethrower? Related posts: Are breast implants tax-deductable? Only if they’re...
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A different kind of crowd-funding
Christopher Taylor starts off by praising to the skies a movie I’ve never seen … but he goes on to discuss a variant of crowdfunding that might be a significant change to how movies are made: … the big...
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A countertop home-brewing appliance
Pulkit Chandna reviews the “Brewie”: In the future, at-home beer brewing will be a set-it-and-forget-it cinch, and not the convoluted mess we have always known it to be. That’s the feeling one gets...
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Technological attempts to preserve Middle Eastern antiquities
Ars Technica calls them the digital “Monuments Men”: The student who proclaimed this idea is part of a new generation of cultural guardians who are starting to make a name for themselves around the...
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JOURNEYQUEST IS RENEWED!
Published on 19 Feb 2016 Thanks to over 5000 backers on Kickstarter, with mere hours to go, JourneyQuest has been renewed for a third season! Congratulations, thank you, and ONWAAAAAARD! Related posts:...
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A good example of what not to crowdsource
The Guardian tried to enlist the brainpower of the crowd to solve the problems at Fukushima. As innovative as some of these solutions might be, it does demonstrate that there are things that cannot be...
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Unmanned sub hunter
Lewis Page looks at the Continuous Trail Unmanned Vessel (ACTUV): No doubt regular readers will recall the US military’s cunning plan to develop unmanned submarine-hunting robotic frigates — warships...
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An amusing copyright tale (for a change)
Jesse Brown has the most entertaining copyright story I’ve read in quite a while: But some of the hooligans exposed on Youtube found a clever way to get the video removed—copyright claims. Under...
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Tim Harford: The problem of “interdisciplinary problems”
Tim Harford recently visited Oxford Martin School to discuss the phenomenon of problems that are seen as intractable when viewed from within a “silo” or single discipline, but which yield solutions...
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A Kickstarter campaign for … Greece
I guess it’s about their last available option: Greece is a small country in the south of Europe known for inventing democracy and western philosophy and for its national motto, “Release the Kraken!”...
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Crowdfunding the NanoLight
Cassandra Khaw at TechHive on the attempt to crowdfund a new LED light: Part lightbulb, part spaceship component, the LED NanoLight (funding through March 8) is being touted as the world’s most energy...
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Kickstarter promotion: win a day with Chris Kluwe
Minnesota Vikings punter Chris Kluwe has been in the news a heck of a lot for any non-quarterback. He’s probably the most newsworthy punter in the NFL in the last 25 years or more. A new Kickstarter...
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