Fund This: Jurassic Park The Musical – in 3D!
This week, you can get up close with dinosaurs, help launch the H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival, and snuggle up to plenty of pandas.
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Tag: Kickstarter
Nailed It! Espionage Cosmetics Kicks Off Nail Art Kickstarter Campaign
Espionage Cosmetics, already a favorite of geeks nationwide, begins a new chapter this week with the launch of a Kickstarter campaign.
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Cuddly Forge of Honor Creatures Fend Off Night Terrors
Forge of Honor, a start-up toy company, aims to fund its medieval collection on Kickstarter.
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Fund This: Feed Your Inner Gardening Geek With the Nourishmat
This week, we take a peek at projects that can improve your gardening skills and allow you to build a super-tiny skeleton.
Continue ReadingMeet Grace from Outer Space
This Kickstarter campaign to create a book to “get young girls interested in astronomy, science, and technology” has just a few days left for funding.
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Coney Island Mermaid Parade 2013
Despite damage caused by Hurricane Sandy, a successful Kickstarter campaign ensure the Coney Island Mermaid Parade would go on. Check out the photos from last weekend!
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Are You My Asteroid-Busting Hero? …Sign in Friday Morning
Kickstarter project ARKYD hosts a Gamer Hangout to combine gaming and space telescope at 10am June 28, and aims for a stretch goal on June 30 of $1.7million.
Continue ReadingFund This: Organic Yarn, Blast into Space and App Camp for Girls
This week, we take a peek at projects that can blast you into space, create jobs, and form someone’s future.
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Fund This: My Little Geek's Nerdy Numbers and Sci-Fi Shapes
Help fund the two upcoming board books designed as sequels to 2011’s “My Little Geek.”
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Fund This: Video Games and Neil Gaiman Ought to Be in Pictures
An ode to video games and Neil Gaiman’s big-screen debut await your hard-earned cash.
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Promise Monsters Make Kindness Contagious
Some monsters make amazing things happen.
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Fund This: STEAM Carnival Puts Robots and Science Under the Big Top
This traveling circus is looking to blend science, technology, engineering, art, and math.
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Merm-Aid Kickstarter Aims to Save Mermaid Parade
For years now, Coney Island’s Mermaid Parade has functioned as my own personal Rumspringa. For the rest of each year I might have seemed like nothing more than a mom, a homeschooler, a cub scout leader, a Sunday school teacher, an advocate–let’s face it, not the stuff of myth and legend. But one day each June, miles from the “Mom…Mom…Mom…” of home, I got to revel along with 750,000 like-minded, beach-bound souls at the largest, friendliest art parade in the country. Heaven.
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SparkTruck: The Movie
SparkTruck is a small truck with a big dream. Last summer, a group of Stanford students converted an old food truck into the ultimate educational mobile. Together, they traveled across America to share their love of making. Now, they are asking for your help to fund a documentary of their travels.
Continue ReadingChargeCard Puts Your Charge Cable in Your Wallet
This foldable, tiny cable may be just the right solution to portable power needs for your iPod or iPhone.
Continue ReadingGeekMom: Comic Book Corner — December 5th, 2012
Happy Comic Release Day! Welcome to another installment of GeekMom Comic Book Corner, where we recap our adventures in comics for the week.
Continue ReadingKickstarter’s New Rules Punish Creators and Backers
Kickstarter’s newly released rules punish backers and creators while potentially causing more of the problem they’re trying to prevent.
Continue ReadingThe GeekMoms Podcast #27: Fight For Space, Reigniting Our Passion For Space Exploration
Have you ever wondered how the US got to the point where funding missions to space just isn’t that important? Paul Hildebrandt wondered, and he’s launched a Kickstarter campaign to fund a documentary and answer that question.
Continue ReadingiPhone Stun Gun Case — Protection or Trip to the ER Waiting to Happen?
The Yellow Jacket iPhone Stun Gun case is exactly as its name implies. It’s a case for your iPhone that has a built in stun gun feature. With a 650K volt stun gun built in, this is not a case to be taken lightly by its user. Currently just an Indiegogo project, the Yellow Jacket has already made its minimum goal to start production.
Continue ReadingKickstarter: Hone Means No More Searching For Keys
There’s nothing quite as frustrating as getting ready to leave the house in the morning and not being able to find your keys. This is usually more likely to happen on a day when you’re already running late or you overslept and can’t see straight or your kids are missing a shoe, or a glove or their school bags. It’s one of those moments of parenting hell that we’ve all endured. Lucky for all of us, the days of searching the house for our keys are soon to disappear thanks to the folks behind Hone.
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