http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/energy-multiplier-cleaner-efficient-energy-production?c=home
Check out all the cool stuff you get if you donate $10,000!
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... A piece of paper with the guy's name written on it! Wow!
Clang, $500K and 1 year later:
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/260688528/clang/posts/604023
Other than that it seems like a bad product to me. I'd not want to balance a phone or tablet vertically on the tiny connector of this thing without any other mechanical support. Again am I missing the point? It seems like a great way to break stuff.
20% fuel savings.
http://igg.me/p/650364
20% fuel savings.
http://igg.me/p/650364
Well at least that one is fixed funding, meaning it's all or nothing.
How about this one; http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/rawlemon-solar-devices
Replace you solar panels now with 6 ton glass bowls filled with water. Hope you have a strong roof!
I guess the name gives it away; rawlemon... I prefer my lemons cooked (under a bowl of glass)
How about this one; http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/rawlemon-solar-devices
Replace you solar panels now with 6 ton glass bowls filled with water. Hope you have a strong roof!
I guess the name gives it away; rawlemon... I prefer my lemons cooked (under a bowl of glass)
http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/meterplug-lower-your-electricbill-measure-real-electric-cost
(days away from the delivery date, only one photo of pre-production units, no updates)
How about this one; http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/rawlemon-solar-devices
Replace you solar panels now with 6 ton glass bowls filled with water. Hope you have a strong roof!while i dont think it's dodgey, it does seem a bit niche!
A major part of the production cost of today's silicon solar cell modules is the flat sheet of glass on its front. And this is a plain sheet of glass! Not a sphere, whether solid or strong enough to hold water...
A major part of the production cost of today's silicon solar cell modules is the flat sheet of glass on its front.
Where did you come up with THAT data? The glass on top is most certainly not a major cost in a module.
If that were TRUE then thin film solar cells (which are on a glass substrate and then have the additional glass layer on top) wouldn't be significantly cheaper than silicon cells. Also see this marketing report for a breakdown of material costs.
http://www.nrel.gov/docs/fy12osti/53938.pdf
This one is not going to succeed either, kind of telling how NONE of the pictures of the actual device show the screen, just a plastic wrist band!
https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/the-rufus-cuff-more-than-a-smartwatch-a-wrist-communicator
This has received a lot of backers and I'm afraid a lot of people are going to be disappointed in the final product.
The images on the Kickstarter page give the impression the robotic printer can print full page technical drawings and graphics. Yet the video just shows the robot printing single line of text.
Trying to get a robot to travel in a straight line with the precision required to print the type of documents they imply it will be able to print is a near impossibility.
These guys are business students dabbling in robotics and they don't have clue how to accomplish what they are promising. You can see some of the "development" work in posts at Let's Make Robots. The LMR member kkffiirr http://letsmakerobots.com/user/20833 has asked several questions revealing his lack of robotics knowledge.
I don't think they have been honest in describing the risks backers are taking by supporting the project. To make a robot capable of printing as well as they imply their robot will, is next to impossible.
Their "prototype" is a Parallax ink jet printer kit mounted on some omni wheels (normal wheels would have worked for their "demo" video). Here's a video of the printer kit used free hand.
This printer might work reasonably well printing text only documents if you didn't need the print to be high quality, but it's certainly not going to be able to print the type of documents shown in the photos.
I think this qualifies as a scam.
I thought Kickstarter projects had to have a working prototype?
BTW, I like to build robots myself and I've made many different kinds including robots with omni wheels. I won't post links to my stuff by it's easy to find by searching my name.