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Spaceship Earth Grants competition offers chance of a trip into space
Posted in Business on 17th Sep, 2014
by Alex Muller
This program aims to be a crowd-driven effort to send citizens into space.
Sense, the sleep-watching orb, is waking up investors
Posted in Business on 25th Aug, 2014
by Alex Muller
Sense has caught fire on Kickstarter, as almost 20,000 backers have made donations or pre-ordered the globe, adding another $2.4 million to the cash raised.
Indiegogo finally launches an iOS app for everyone
Posted in Online on 3rd Aug, 2014
by Alex Muller
Crowdfunding platform Indiegogo has released a new mobile app today that will let you contribute interesting and inventive fundraising campaigns on-the-go.
Sleep sensor breaks through $1m on Kickstarter
Posted in Medicine on 31st Jul, 2014
by Alex Muller
A 22-year-old British entrepreneur's new sleep-tracking kit has cracked $1.2m (08,000) in its first week on Kickstarter's crowdfunding platform.
Students will send time capsule to Mars
Posted in Science on 28th Jun, 2014
by Alex Muller
A group of students want to greet the first Mars human colonists with a time capsule by collecting photos, videos, audio clips, and messages to send to the planet by 2017.