As we kick off 2026, Kickstarter has become a launchpad for hardware that moves AI off your screen and into real life.

With artificial intelligence becoming increasingly prominent, Kickstarter wants you to know if and how it’s being used in any projects on the platform. The company will soon require creators to ...

If so, it seems like you were pretty darn unlucky, as the company claimed this week that a mere 9 percent of Kickstarter projects fail to deliver on promised rewards. The figure comes from a study ...

The crowdfunding site Kickstarter, a resource for creative-types seeking financing for their endeavors, announced some major changes to the service Tuesday. The new rules could open the floodgates for ...

Over the last several months, Kickstarter projects started by the likes of Zach Braff, Spike Lee, and Rob Thomas have resulted in an uproar from critics who assumed these celebs could fund their own ...

What happens here matters everywhere. by Tim Ellis on May 4, 2015 at 12:07 pm May 4, 2015 at 12:07 pm On Feb. 9, 2012, I backed my first Kickstarter project—an old-school adventure video game known at ...

In my view, consumer printers are hulking and inscrutable plastic machines, worse to look at than to use. When industrial design students need to be punished, they have to sit alone in a room with one ...

Misfit Shine seemed like it should be a Kickstarter home run, capitalizing on the fitness tracker trend while simplifying it even further, down to a button-sized, machined-aluminum beacon that syncs ...

Sure, these projects seem quirky now, but that scrappy amateur fusion reactor might blow up the Earth. Fund at your own risk. 1. The space elevator This project has been in the news all day, a 2km ...

It started like a typical Kickstarter success story. A startup raised almost $1.5 million last fall for tiny new wireless headphones that claimed to be the first that could charge through a phone.

is a former senior reviewer who worked at The Verge from 2011 until May 2025. His coverage areas included audio, home theater, smartphones, and more. If you’ve ever wondered how many Kickstarter ...

Kickstarter is a great place to help get cool or innovative projects off the ground. But even if a Kickstarter project meets its funding goal, there’s still a chance it won’t work out. Kickstarter ...