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Crowdfunding Project Upgrades Your Car’s Head Unit to Support Wireless Android Auto

Tim September 8, 2020 8

Wireless Android Auto is clearly the bee's knees, but the one issue most users have is that their car's current head unit doesn't support it due to a lack of WiFi connectivity. Thankfully, there's now an Indiegogo campaign that takes aim at this exact issue,...

Crowdfund Spotlight: $129 Luna Smart Lamp Offers Fast Wireless Charging, Alexa, and Built-In Bluetooth Speaker

Tim June 12, 2019

When it comes to crowdfunding a smartphone, I refuse. If we're talking about basic consumer items, such as a smart lamp, that's something I can get behind, simply because the hurdles for such a product are not nearly as mountainous as they are for a phone....

Mobvoi Announces TicPods Free Wireless Buds With Google Assistant, Early Bird Pricing at $59

Kellen April 17, 2018 14

Mobvoi is a company you may not have heard a lot about at this point, but it's one that you should probably start paying attention to if a fan of affordable tech that typically plays well with Android. For one, they make two of the better Wear OS watches in...

Moto Really Needs Your Help Coming Up With the Next Great Moto Mods

Kellen November 3, 2016 88

Last week, a report suggesting that LG was already abandoning modularity in phones caused some to worry about Motorola's future in the niche. You asked us during our most recent Q&A if we thought Motorola would do the same and we responded by saying that...

Skully Founders Balled so Hard at the Strip Club and on Sports Cars With Your Money, They Forgot to Make Motorcycle Helmets

Kellen August 10, 2016 73

Two years ago, almost to the day, we shared an Indiegogo project for a futuristic, Android-powered motorcycle helmet that was generating all sorts of buzz from major car-related publications, the tech sector, and even celebrity chefs (random, but true). The...

PayPal is Done Protecting the Crowdfunded Garbage You Keep Backing

Kellen May 9, 2016 19

Backing items on crowdfunded sites is almost always a pretty bad idea. That's not to say that there haven't been some good ideas and products come through your favorite host - like Kickstarter or Indiegogo - over the years, but the true success stories are few...

Backing a Crowdfunded Smartphone is a Terrible Idea. [Opinion]

Kellen January 22, 2016 49

If there is one, almost guaranteed to be terrible, financial decision you could make in tech today, it would be by backing a crowdfunded smartphone. That includes those from random companies you have never heard of that open up "pre-orders" for break-through...

The Saygus V2…You Already Asked for a Refund, Right?

Kellen January 19, 2016 75

The Saygus V2 or V-Squared is back in the news this week, unfortunately. I don't really have much to say about it, other than we met with them at CES and came away shaking our heads at the disaster that they have become since announcing their phone at last...