1. LunaTik Touch Pen
Based on one of the coolest principles in the modern world – crowdfunding – Kickstarter attracts nothing but impressive projects. Check out the 10 coolest Kickstarter tech projects of 2011.
The LunaTik Touch Pen, reached its $75,000 goal
It’s a pen! It’s a stylus! It’s the LunaTik Touch Pen! It writes on paper or in pixels and goes from screen to sheet with ease. What makes this project awesome is that it acknowledges the fact that paper isn’t going anywhere. Yes, there are people out there (me!) who enjoy a good old notepad as much as a netbook. It comes in a range of colors either in a high-quality alloy or a more affordable plastic. This project is well over its $75,000 goal with more than a month left to gather funding. It’s no wonder – their first product, the TikTok+LunaTick Multi-Touch Watch Kit transformed the iPod Nano into a new accessory and holds the record for the highest funded Kickstarter project with almost $1 million in funding.
The title of this article is misleading: This is basically the 10 best ipad projects, not 10 best tech projects...
And not 1 mention of Settlers of Cattan, wood edition?
Anyone else find it amusing that so many design awards go to products to hold your tablet?
Yeah just a bunch of icrap accessories. Just goes to show that the ipad design itself is lame. Adding a overlay keyboard because a real keyboard is better than the shit on screen ones.
The title of this article is misleading: This is basically the 10 best ipad projects, not 10 best tech projects...And not 1 mention of Settlers of Cattan, wood edition?
How is Settlers of Cattan a tech gadget?
I think it's funny that the people trying to start the iTar didn't take the hint that not enough people wanted it. If you can't make your goal here and you have to get outside funding - what makes you think you will be able to sell your product once it's done? Duh! I think I would consider it a failure right there and move on.
And yes, this is all iCrap gear - come on Tom's, how about hooking us up with some REAL gadgets. The Bluetooth speaker and the pen/stylus thing were decent, but that's it.
I think it's funny that the people trying to start the iTar didn't take the hint that not enough people wanted it. If you can't make your goal here and you have to get outside funding - what makes you think you will be able to sell your product once it's done? Duh! I think I would consider it a failure right there and move on.And yes, this is all iCrap gear - come on Tom's, how about hooking us up with some REAL gadgets. The Bluetooth speaker and the pen/stylus thing were decent, but that's it.
actually the itar is a very good idea. the problem is this, how many people want a guitar? there is a market for this, and a fairly large one, but they wont pay for an unfinished product, and most likely also never even knew about this. if the price is right, like well under the cost of a regualy midi guitar, i may even pick one up.
As a photographer I am definitely waiting for the "CineSkates".
Great idea and very useful !
#4 looks like that power-glove the goa'uld used to wear in Stargate SG1.
how-bout this for Crowdfunded --- Final Fantasy back to the PC???
put me in for 100$ anyone else game???
7/10 of these are strictly apple products, and the other 3 are nothing to write home about.
I don't want to live in this world anymore.
iTar on page 9 makes me think iTards
FYI, one of these "best" Kickstarters is apparently a con man who never really intended to deliver anything to his backers. Seth Quest, the founder of Hanfree, reaped $35,000 in backing, but last fall told backers he was unable to create the product after all. He promised to refund the monies, but now it's Spring 2012, almost a year after he was funded, and backers have received no product and no refund. He's stringing people along with vague comments about the "difficulties" he's having in figuring out how to make amends.
Unlike Anonymous, I believe that Seth Quest originally planned to deliver the Hanfree to his Kickstarter buyers; but he certainly didn't, and the project was declared to have collapsed more than a month before this entry is dated. Quest has refused to account for how the money was spent. He has variously claimed that Kickstarter buyers are owed nothing because (as he claims) Kickstarter is an investment gamble, insinuated that he was able to transfer liability to a corporation that he registered and then dissolved, and has said that he would develop a settlement programme if angry buyers would behave more deferentially to him.