Skully Helmets, the virtual reality motorcycle helmet, has finally closed a 2-month funding round on Indiegogo, clearing the $2.8 million mark. The company says it's the most successful tech funding ever on Indiegogo. The company has pre-sold 1950 units at about $1500 each. It had originally tried to raise just $250,000, a goal it hit in 8 minutes. Now comes the hard … [Read more...]
Skully Helmet Starts Pre-Orders
We've previously mentioned the Skully motorcycle helmet, which features a heads-up display, rear-view camera, and GPS navigation. We saw a prototype a few months ago courtesy of our friends at Wearable World Labs, which incubated the project. We were pretty impressed -- although the quantity of hype surrounding it obscured the fact that it wasn't close to shipping. It's … [Read more...]
Wearable Tech Crowdfunding Infographic: Shipping is Hard
The folks at Crowdfunding Productions have put together an infographic that illustrates the amount of money that wearable tech companies have raised on Indiegogo and Kickstarter -- and the success rate of funding attempts. It turns out that Kickstarter campaigns are more successful: they raise more money, have more completed campaigns, and deliver more product. It's possible … [Read more...]
Indiegogo Defends Itself About Healbe and Fraud
As regular readers know, there's been a bit of fuss about the Indiegogo crowd-funding campaign for the Healbe health tracker. Pando Daily has been digging into the background of the company and the scientific claims that it's making and not much liking what it finds. Pando has also been doing a tapdance on Indiegogo's head for supposedly turning a blind eye to questions about … [Read more...]
Pando Calls Shenanigans on Healbe Indiegogo Pitch
A few weeks ago, we wrote about the Healby GoBe Indiegogo campaign. The GoBe claimed to be able to monitor hydration and blood glucose levels through a wristband without using a blood stick. This didn't comport with any science we were familiar with and raised a couple of eyebrows, but there's lots of science that we don't know so we wrote about it anyway. PandoDaily jumped … [Read more...]
Healbe GoBe Claims to Read Glucose Levels Through Skin
Most fitness tracker wrist bands show a (bad) estimate of calories expended, based on how much you move. Healby's GoBe, an IndieGoGo project, does that, but also claims to track caloric intake and expenditure by monitoring your glucose levels through your skin. The GoBe's wristband is admittedly not svelte, but it does a lot: monitor movement, track blood pressure and heart … [Read more...]
Open Source Wristwear: the Angel
Hardware is expensive to develop; software is cheap. That's why the Angel sensor, an open source fitness band, has the potential for being extremely important. The Angel is raising money on Indiegogo, and (as of this writing) has raised more than $200,000 of its original $100,000 goal, with 9 days to go. So the thing is a hit. Or, at least, there'll be enough money to get … [Read more...]