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If you’ve always wanted to know how to make a phone, a new Kickstarter campaign is offering classes to teach you how to build a 3D-printed phone of your very own. The classes will take place in maker spaces around the US in early 2017. Pledge $199 or more to Dtoor’s campaign and you get …

The Fireside Audiobox is a wireless music player with a trick up up its sleeve. See that silver tube on top? There’s a speaker on one side but the other end connects to a small propane tank underneath that pumps gas up through a series of small holes. When you introduce fire to the burner, it ignites a series of …

We all want high-powered, concert-quality sound in our homes, but not everyone has the space for a bulky stereo receiver and a pair of speakers. The Basswall is a practical solution for cramped spaces. It hides a big sound system behind a picture frame that’s 24 by 36 inches (61 by 91 cm). Basswall calls itself the “stealth ninja” of …

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 …

Golf is a challenging game but help — in the form of smart shoes — is on the way. Samsung spin-off Salted Venture on Tuesday confirmed its Iofit shoes have landed on Kickstarter and should hit stores in February 2017. With an expected sticker price of $260, early bird backers of the project should be able to scoop up a …

Amazon now has such a vast inventory of stuff, it needs to work a little harder to find new products to sell you. The online retailer is doing just that by teaming up with Kickstarter to offer more than 300 products that originated on the crowdfunding site. The products, dubbed the Kickstarter Collection, can be found on the startup-focused Amazon …

In 2013, Kano debuted its Raspberry Pi-powered DIY computer kit on Kickstarter, with an aim to get kids pumped about coding and computing. Since then, it has raised more than $1.5 million from Kickstarter backers, and its kits will soon be available at Toys R Us and Barnes & Noble. The kit includes a Raspberry Pi 3 mini-computer with accompanying …

There’s no shortage of wireless earbuds out there right now — especially on Kickstarter. The latest to raise funding are the FireFlies, a pair of completely cord-free earbuds that you can order today for the lowest price we’ve seen in the category, just $79 (about £60 or AU$105) for early backers while supplies last. The left and right earpieces connect …

Blame Das Keyboard for bringing the world of clicky-keyed mechanical keyboards to your peaceful office. I fell in love with that oddly satisfying typing feel myself and haven’t been able to go back to a regular keyboard since. I should probably apologize to my co-workers for the noise, but it’s about to get worse because the company just launched a …

Walking alone through a parking garage or down a side street, you feel uneasy. You wonder how you’d signal for help if you were truly in danger. You’re not alone. One in five women is sexually assaulted before graduating from college, said Anna Voremberg, managing director of End Rape on Campus. And it’s not just young women who worry about …