Tag Archives: crowdfunding

Peak Design’s magnet

Want a way to mount your phone almost anywhere, in a car, on a bike or even to a wall? San Francisco-based Peak Design has built a mounting system that seeks to make it easier to hold your phone securely in all those situations.  Called Mobile by Peak Design, the system starts with a phone …

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That Meizu Zero phone with no buttons or ports was just a big tease

Chinese phone-maker Meizu made a big splash when it launched its Zero “True Holeless Phone” on Indiegogo on Jan. 30 with offers of 100 “Engineer Units” for $1,299 each and a single “Pioneer Unit” for $2,999. Now it’s marked as a closed campaign showing it reached only $46,000 of the $100,000 goalm and its CEO told fans on Meizu’s forum …

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YouTube drops Logan Paul from ad program after ‘dead body’ video

YouTube is moving to punish Logan Paul amid a backlash over the vlogger posting a clip that featured images of a suicide victim. The video sharing site said Wednesday that Paul’s “Originals” projects had been put on hold and that he wouldn’t be featured in the fourth season of the YouTube Red comedy series “Foursome.” YouTube has also removed Paul’s …

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Zanco Tiny T1: The world’s smallest working phone

Last year, we saw the return of the Nokia 3310, a small feature phone with long battery life that echoed a past when phones were simple and cheap. The company Zanco is looking to take those qualities to the extreme with its Tiny T1 phone. The T1 is about the size of a domino and looks more like a key …

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The Kunkun Body sniffer says my armpit stinks

Learning my armpits were slightly stinky wasn’t that big a deal, honestly. After all, I’d been walking through the crowded halls of the Anime Festival Asia 2017 in Singapore for the last hour or so. It helped that my smell wasn’t all that bad, according to the Konica Minolta’s Kunkun Body system. It’s a portable odour detector from Japan that …

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​Kickstarter 101: When and how to run a crowdfunding campaign

With technology increasingly intertwined with all aspects of business, CNET@Work can help you — prosumers to small businesses with fewer than five employees — get started. Raising capital is always a challenge, but thanks to crowdfunding sites such as Kickstarter, there are more ways than ever to fund new business ventures. When the platform works, it can help foster truly …

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Activists raise $200,000 to expose lawmakers’ web browsing

Campaigns raising money to buy lawmakers’ web browsing histories to protest the repeal of broadband privacy rules have been gaining steam the past couple of days, collecting more than $200,000. At least four crowdfunding campaigns have been started since both the House of Representatives and the Senate voted to repeal rules adopted by the Federal Communications Commission that would have …

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Netflix will help complete unfinished Orson Welles opus

Netflix is stepping in to help complete Orson Welles’ unfinished “The Other Side of the Wind,” one of the most famous movies never released, the New York Times reported Tuesday. With the streaming service’s backing, fans of the legendary director behind “Citizen Kane” and “Touch of Evil” may finally get a chance to see the movie, a comeback effort that …

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Fitbit paid $23 million for wearable startup Pebble

Now playing: Watch this: Fitbit picked up Pebble for just $23 million 1:18 Pebble’s assets and intellectual property were acquired by Fitbit in December. Sarah Tew/CNET Fitbit, one of the biggest names in fitness trackers, paid $23 million to acquire the assets and intellectual property of Pebble, one of wearable’s early stars. The sales price was revealed Wednesday in a …

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Love turntable without a spinning platter; is this really necessary?

There’s a buzz surrounding the Love turntable — I suppose high-tech novelty is its big draw — so I watched the video and laughed my evil laugh. The copy proudly proclaims, “Love completely redefines the record player by keeping the record stationary while preserving the classic sound we’ve grown accustomed to,” but platterless, even turntable-free LP playback isn’t new. Way …

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