Hacker News with Generative AI: Kickstarter

Origami measuring spoon incites fury after 9 years of Kickstarter delay hell (arstechnica.com)
An attention-grabbing Kickstarter campaign attempting to reinvent the measuring spoon has turned into a mad, mad, mad, mad world for backers after years of broken promises and thousands of missing spoons.
Crowdfunding, Kickstarter, Design, Consumer Products, Delays
13 points by Tomte 17 days ago | 7 comments
Zen and the Art of Writer Decks (Using the Pomera DM250) (antipope.org)
This is a brain dump about a gadget I acquired recently—a Japanese grey-market import Pomera DM250—and it's of limited interest so I wouldn't normally write about it here, except the manufacturer has pre-announced a kickstarter campaign, coming in the next couple of months, to sell a US/English version of the machine.
Writing, Gadgets, Kickstarter, Reviews
40 points by rcarmo 200 days ago | 14 comments
Viral Kickstarter Telephoto Camera Makes Impossible Promises (petapixel.com)
Crowdfunding, Photography, Kickstarter, Camera
26 points by PaulHoule 343 days ago | 0 comments