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MedStartr Offers Crowdfunding For Health IT Firms, Including Itself
Kickstarter has collected $250 million for 24,000 projects since it was founded three years ago, but virtually none of that has gone to health-related companies. “I said, ‘Hey, there’s an opportunity here,’” Fair says. “No one’s really doing health care crowdfunding.”
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MedStartr Thinks Crowdfunding Will Work For Med-Tech
Crowdfunding—the new, hip way to raise money for early-stage technologies and interesting projects—has found a happy home in the world of high-tech, where many people are eager to experiment with new models and new approaches. Read More »
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Medstartr To Launch After Kickstarter Rejects (Some) Health Projects
This week health and medical-focused crowdfunding platform Medstartr plans to officially launch on Wednesday. As the name suggests, the website is following in the footsteps of the leading crowdfunding website, Kickstarter, which has helped launched at least two health-related startups that we have covered in MobiHealthNews... Read More »
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Nairobi's iHub Seeks Investment For New Hardware Hackspace, Gearbox
One of the stalwarts of the Kenyan tech scene wants to move beyond its focus on software and apps by offering hardware workspace for design and rapid prototyping. Read More »
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New Crowdfunding Site Seeks To Protect Backers Of Industrial Design
Entrepreneur Jamie Siminoff wants to build more credibility into crowdfunding — so he’s launching a new platform that takes responsibility for ensuring the viability of new projects. Read More »
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New Open Source Platform Allows Anyone To Hack Brain Waves
For most people how the human brain works remains a mystery, let alone how to hack it. A new Kickstarter campaign created by engineers Joel Murphy and Conor Russomanno aims to change this by putting an affordable, open-source brain-computer interface kit in the hands & minds of anyone. Read More »
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Online, Off The Grid: The Promising New Tech Tool About To Hit African Markets
An African tech company is gearing up to unleash a brand new tool that will help people across the continent get connected to the Internet, even in the most remote places. Read More »
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Open Source Hardware Development Board Lil’ Nardo Is The Focus Of New Fundraiser On Kickstarter
Augustine DiCiacce, Cyril Moore and Dan Ward, founders of Myownduino, have recently launched a fundraiser on the Kickstarter website that is designed to raise money for the development of an open source hardware mini development board called the Lil’ Nardo. Read More »
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Open Thread: Microsoft Health's Big Advantage Is Cross-Platform Support
Microsoft has been winning generally approving headlines for its Microsoft Band fitness tracker and accompanying Microsoft Health platform, since both were revealed – seemingly unintentionally at first – on Wednesday...
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Open-Source Kits Put Robots In Many Hands
I recently received an interesting press release about Multiplo, a four-person startup seeking venture funds in small amounts to create and manufacture kits for anyone interested in robotics. Read More »
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OSLOOM: An Open Source Jacquard Loom
The OSLOOM project has been working for two years to build an open source Jacquard loom. It is one of the first open source textiles projects to receive some funding via Kickstarter... Read More »
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Ouya Launches Open-Source Android Console in UK
The Ouya open-source Android console has launched in the UK. Read More »
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Pimp Your 3D Printer With Cyrus: The Open Source 3D Printer
Cyrus is an open source 3D printer currently funding on Kickstarter designed to “close the gap between consumers and makers.” Read More »
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Power Glove Makes Music With The Wave Of A Hand
Backed by singer-songwriter Imogen Heap, the Mi.Mu gloves allow the wearer to manipulate sound in almost limitless ways.
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Robot Turtles Is A Board Game Designed By A Googler To Teach Kids Core Coding Principles
There are plenty of online resources aimed at teaching kids coding but here’s an offline take that uses old school gamification to get kids engaged and learning programming principles while they’re having some good old-fashioned family fun (as board game makers used to put it, in the 1980s)... Read More »
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