Drop Kicker

It's been over a year since we've had a new Dropkicker review. This is partially due to a number of other projects that have taken precedence, but it's also due to the relative lack of high-profile projects with questionable degrees of polish. Recently, I

Since man first learned to harness and use the electron, there has been a constant struggle to find new and more efficient ways to generate electric power. The Greeks rubbed animal hides against amber (as they called it ἤλεκτρον or ēlektron) while much la

If you log into Indiegogo today, you might notice a small survey pop up in the bottom left corner of your browser window. With campaigns as troubled as Ritot, Smarty Ring, and TellSpec, one wonders if Indiegogo is starting to feel like it's garnered a rep

If you've been following this blog, you already know all about the Scribble Pen project which has been ejected from two different crowd funding platforms for providing misleading information about their level of progress on their pen that can supposedly w

Thanks for playing folks. I think this is the final nail in the coffin of the Scribble Campaign. It's not very likely that they'll find another crowdfunding platform that will accept them. Though it never should have gotten this far, a lot of interesting

If you log into Indiegogo today, you might notice a small survey pop up in the bottom left corner of your browser window.

Minutes after the Scribble Pen campaign relaunched on CrowdTilt, the associated video went private and was then removed for over an hour before a replacement appeared without comment from the team. We originally didn't think much of it after the numerous

After a bizarre decision to completely shut down their Kickstarter campaign rather than simply produce a better product video, the team behind the Scribble Pen went virtually radio silent for over a week despite repeatedly broken promises to relaunch thei

Author's note: Portions of the research for this project were provided by reader K. Thank you for your help. Every few weeks, we see another crowd funded campaign trying to revolutionize the way we look at our wrists to see the time. While most of these p

The long anticipated Scribble Pen finally launched this week to immense if very short-lived success. The project became wildly popular back in June when they first announced their product to the tech media, but several delays prevented them from launching