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MSCHF drops tiny action figures of your favorite failed startup hardware

Hardware is hard. You can browse the archives of this site and come up with dozens of bold attempts to make new consumer electronics gadgets work — some of them very close to home. But, like all

PicoBrew blindsides Kickstarter backers with surprise stretch goal

PicoBrew has been making beer brewing easy for a while. The company's current Kickstarter campaign has been running for a couple of weeks. Today, the company announced a surprise upgrade option to its

When Crowdfunding Fails The Backers Are Left With No Way Out

A few years ago an enterprising programmer dug through Kickstarter’s data to figure out how many failed projects there really were. Thanks to a trick in the coding, however, none showed up. This