‘Gravity’ Deep Sleep Blanket: $169 Heavy Comforters Weighing Up To 25 Pounds Raise $1.8 Million On Kickstarter

‘Gravity’ Deep Sleep Blanket: $169 Heavy Comforters Weighing Up To 25 Pounds Raise $1.8 Million On Kickstarter

The Kickstarter campaign named Gravity: The Weighted Blanket for Sleep, Stress and Anxiety is gaining not only plenty of attention online, but plenty of money from interested buyers. As of this writing, the campaign has gained $1,846,051, which was pledged from consumers who helped the Gravity blanket blow way past its $21,500 goal. With 9,383 […]

Crowdfunding Fraud: Scammers Use Kickstarter, Indiegogo, And GoFundMe As A Personal Piggy Bank

Crowdfunding Fraud: Scammers Use Kickstarter, Indiegogo, And GoFundMe As A Personal Piggy Bank

The concept of Crowdfunding relies entirely upon trust, It is because of this fact that it is a prime breeding ground for fraud. Through online platforms such as Kickstarter, Indiegogo, or GoFundMe, people solicit funds for their projects or lifestyles from complete strangers. Sometimes extra measures, such as a sample product or reward, are offered […]

‘Apocalypse Now’ Video Game Is In The Works, Francis Ford Coppola Offers Advanced Purchase Via Kickstarter

‘Apocalypse Now’ Video Game Is In The Works, Francis Ford Coppola Offers Advanced Purchase Via Kickstarter

Almost 40 years after the release of Francis Ford Coppola’s legendary Apocalypse Now, fans are going to get to experience the action from their own perspective for the first time as Coppola’s American Zoetrope production company looks to release a video game based on the film. Do not get too excited just yet: The game […]

AirSelfie: The Flying Camera Is Landing Soon

AirSelfie: The Flying Camera Is Landing Soon

Just when you thought you were finally content with your smartphone comes the newest invention that will make selfie sticks obsolete. The AirSelfie is the latest gadget you didn’t know you needed to solve a problem that you didn’t know you had. With a $3 million investment in hand, Edoardo Stroppiana, the co-founder of AirSelfie […]

Bears vs. Babies: The New Card Game Takes Kickstarter And The Internet By Storm

Bears vs. Babies: The New Card Game Takes Kickstarter And The Internet By Storm

The Oatmeal is at it again. If you’re familiar at all with the works of The Oatmeal, known in real life as Matthew Inman, you’re familiar with how he feels about babies. That he prefers cats and dogs to babies is a matter of internet record. He has called babies, “selfish, amniotic, jam-covered goblins,” and […]

Conspiracy Museum Coming To New York City? Ryan Hess Starts Kickstarter Program For the Project

Conspiracy Museum Coming To New York City? Ryan Hess Starts Kickstarter Program For the Project

You can find a museum on just about any topic you can think of from including art, American history and even Barbie dolls. Now get ready for a whole new type of museum – The Museum of Conspiracy. A new Kickstarter program has been put in place by Ryan Hess to create The Museum of […]

The Purpose Hotel Exceeds Kickstarter Goal In Less Than 48 Hours

The Purpose Hotel Exceeds Kickstarter Goal In Less Than 48 Hours

The Purpose Hotel announced today that its latest Kickstarter campaign goal was met in less than 48 hours, exceeding the goal of $347,000. This means that plans for building the first “1 for 100” benefit hotel in Nashville, Tennessee, is well on its way. This is actually the second Kickstarter campaign for the project, as […]

London Underground Station Has All Adverts Replaced With Cute Cat Pictures: What Are The Felines Selling?

London Underground Station Has All Adverts Replaced With Cute Cat Pictures: What Are The Felines Selling?

A London Underground station had all its advertisements replaced with adorable feline photos of all shapes and sizes. Interestingly, the professional-quality prints weren’t part of any surprise marketing campaign confirmed the team. Instead, the Kickstarter-funded group was merely proving that public places belong to the people first and changing the scene from corporate to fun […]

UFO Researchers Launch Kickstarter Campaign To Investigate Alleged ‘Floating Eye Island’ Entrance To Underground Alien Base In Buenos Aires, Argentina [Video]

UFO Researchers Launch Kickstarter Campaign To Investigate Alleged ‘Floating Eye Island’ Entrance To Underground Alien Base In Buenos Aires, Argentina [Video]

A Kickstarter campaign has been launched to investigate the mysterious “floating eye island” discovered accidentally near Buenos Aires in Argentina by a film crew that was investigating the area for a suitable location to film an alien, UFO, or paranormal documentary. The floating island, about 130 yards in diameter, rotates on its axis on a […]

What Is The Purpose Hotel? How Jeremy Cowart Plans To Change The World While You Sleep

What Is The Purpose Hotel? How Jeremy Cowart Plans To Change The World While You Sleep

Up until now, Jeremy Cowart has been known as a photographer of the stars, but now he wants to be known for changing the world with what he is calling “The Purpose Hotel.” For the last ten years, the celebrity photographer has photographed various celebrities including Sting, Britney Spears, the Kardashians, Taylor Swift, and others. […]

Chuck Palahniuk: Author Of ‘Fight Club’ To Adapt His Novel ‘Lullaby’ Into A Movie Depending On Kickstarter Success

Chuck Palahniuk: Author Of ‘Fight Club’ To Adapt His Novel ‘Lullaby’ Into A Movie Depending On Kickstarter Success

Chuck Palahniuk, the author of Fight Club and Choke, is aiming to turn another one of his disturbingly entertaining novels into a movie. Through a Kickstarter campaign, Palahniuk wants Lullaby to be the latest novel to be seen on the silver screen. The news of Chuck Palahniuk wanting Lullaby turned into a movie was reported […]

Forget The Cloud, Kickstarter Project Aims To Back Up Humanity Using Stars And Nano Spacecraft As Time Capsules

Forget The Cloud, Kickstarter Project Aims To Back Up Humanity Using Stars And Nano Spacecraft As Time Capsules

With cloud storage, people can easily store their photos, music, and books, but what if there was a way to back up all of mankind’s knowledge on one tiny Humanity Chip. That’s the goal of a Kickstarter project called Voices of Humanity run by Philip Lubin who is also helping Stephen Hawking and Silicon Valley […]

Down Syndrome Teens Release Trailer For Their $70,000 Zombie Epic

Down Syndrome Teens Release Trailer For Their $70,000 Zombie Epic

Tech Times was the first to report that the zombie flick helmed by two teenage boys with down syndrome that raised nearly $69,000 via Kickstarter last Summer is finally nearing release, and the first trailer for the film just went up online a few hours ago. The film is entitled Spring Break Zombie Massacre and, […]

RenFest — Can the MST3K Crew Work Their Magic Through Kickstarter for a New Show?

RenFest — Can the MST3K Crew Work Their Magic Through Kickstarter for a New Show?

RenFest is a proposed television show by the crew of the cult classic Mystery Science Theater 3000. Their website describes RenFest as “a TV comedy that explores the office politics of putting on a Renaissance festival, and all the quirky personalities involved.” Huffington Post described it as follows. “Think ‘The Office’ or ‘Parks and Recreation’ […]

Erotic Cat Licking Parties Are The Next Big Thing: Kickstarter’s Bizarre ‘Licki Brush’ Campaign

Erotic Cat Licking Parties Are The Next Big Thing: Kickstarter’s Bizarre ‘Licki Brush’ Campaign

“Have you ever wanted to lick your cat?” is the first sentence from the page of a recent Kickstarter campaign for the “Licki Brush,” a sort of prosthetic cat tongue you can hold in your mouth while “licking” your cat with it. Since the page went up this past Tuesday, it has gone viral, being […]

‘Star Trek’ Fan Film Sued By Paramount Gets Boost From Klingon Speakers In Bid To Save ‘Axanar’

‘Star Trek’ Fan Film Sued By Paramount Gets Boost From Klingon Speakers In Bid To Save ‘Axanar’

Star Trek is celebrating its fiftieth anniversary this year with a new movie, a museum exhibit honoring the crew of the Enterprise, and a lawsuit targeting its most dedicated fans. Alec Peters raised $100,000 on Kickstarter for a 20-minute fan-fiction film, titled Prelude to Axanar, that has generated two million views and is now the […]

Kickstarter Group Wants $20 Million To Fix ‘Game Of Thrones’ Dorne Storyline

Kickstarter Group Wants $20 Million To Fix ‘Game Of Thrones’ Dorne Storyline

Warning: small spoilers ahead. A group of super fans wants to rewrite the Dornish plotline in HBO’s Game of Thrones and they’ve started a Kickstarter campaign to raise the $20 million they’ll need to fix the hugely popular show. The project “Fixing Dorne” aims to create several “plug and play” scenes that will interact with […]

Russians Utilizes Kickstarter To Fund ‘Artificial Star’ To Help Remove Space Junk, Will Be Brightest Star In Sky

Russians Utilizes Kickstarter To Fund ‘Artificial Star’ To Help Remove Space Junk, Will Be Brightest Star In Sky

Russian scientists are hoping to launch the first “artificial star” satellite that will help combat the space debris problem. The satellite, called Mayak, will have a reflective covering that is always pointed towards the sun, which will make it the brightest object in the night’s sky if it is launched this year as expected. However, […]

‘Liquor And Strippers’ Ant Sim Devs Respond To Former Partner

‘Liquor And Strippers’ Ant Sim Devs Respond To Former Partner

Truly proving the old idiom that there are always two sides to every story, the two Ant Simulator developers accused of misusing company funds on “liquor and strippers” have, perhaps unsurprisingly, stepped forward to defend themselves by responding to their former business partner’s allegations. Eric Tereshinski, lead developer of the crowdfunded indie game company ETeeski […]

‘Ant Simulator’ Cancelled After Rogue Devs Blow Kickstarter Budget On ‘Liquor And Strippers’

‘Ant Simulator’ Cancelled After Rogue Devs Blow Kickstarter Budget On ‘Liquor And Strippers’

A crowdfunded Ant Simulator game has been cancelled under most unusual circumstances. Two of the developers allegedly blew the project’s budget on restaurants, bars, liquor, and strippers. Yeah, you read that right. Not long ago, Ant Simulator was a promising indie game that was met with much enthusiasm and covered favorably by prominent gaming websites […]

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