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Newegg, the tech-focused online retailer, is beefing up its slate of new gadgets and gizmos with the help of Indiegogo. The e-retailer and crowd-funding site agreed to team up last year to support and bring to market some of the most promising concepts on Indiegogo’s site. As a next step in the partnership, Newegg on …

Indiegogo campaign owners be warned: The crowdfunding platform can send a collection agency after you. As of Wednesday, a new addition to the site’s terms of use lets Indiegogo take more serious measures to return pledged funds to backers after a campaign has breached its terms of service, or hasn’t fulfilled its promise to those backers after the a campaign …

Smartwatches and fitness trackers — heck, all consumer electronics — have one major downside: battery life. They need to be charged. What if they didn’t, though? Conquering the challenges of batteries and the limits of power-efficient processing are things the electronics industry as a whole continues to struggle with. One company thinks it has found a small solution that could …

It’s been a few weeks since the iPhone 7 and 7 Plus went on sale, which means some owners are already sick of carrying around the headphone adapter. And unless you’ve picked up a pair of Lightning headphones for yourself, you’re probably either hating the dongle life right now or rigging some other ways to output audio from the smartphone. …

Now playing: Watch this: The Honey Flow is crowd-funding gold 1:21 Have you ever bought fresh honey from a farmers market? I haven’t either. It’s too expensive. But those free samples are delicious. They taste so much better than anything you can get in the store that I was actually, for a brief moment, tempted by Honey Flow (ignoring the …

Your desk is your sanctuary at work. It’s where you sit (or stand) and while away your employment hours. Maybe you’re really good at holding still. Or maybe you’re the kind who taps your toes, flips pencils and bends paperclips. If that sounds like you, you might already be a backer of the Fidget Cube from Antsy Labs on Kickstarter. …

If you shoot a lot of video with your phone, you may have considered picking up a motorized gimbal. It’s a battery-operated handgrip that typically uses three motors to counteract shake and sudden movement to make your movies look smooth even while you’re running. There are several out there to pick from, but the MarSoar, currently a crowdfunding project on …

The MicroJib might look like an average GoPro pole mount, but a simple twist of the handle shows it’s much more. Instead of keeping the camera fixed at the end, you can use the MicroJib’s handgrip to tilt your GoPro up and down or pan it left and right a full 360 degrees. The pole extends from 16.5 to 33.5 …

It’s not a mystery that most people use their smartphones as their primary camera, if not only camera. So it makes sense that you’d want the experience of using your phone’s camera to be a bit more, well, camera-like. There have been attempts including cases and slide-on grips and LG recently stepped up with an add-on grip for the G5 …

“How interesting could a lamp made from an old tractor headlight be?” That’s the first question that came to mind when I heard from Andrew Chivote, inventor of the Lampster, a lamp now halfway through an extremely successful campaign on Kickstarter. Then I saw the Lampster and it was love (I guess you could even say love at first light …