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Would you ditch your smartphone for Teracube? Tech vets offer sustainable, affordable alternative

Just two days after yet another Apple event promoting another new iPhone, a small tech company in Redmond, Wash., called… Read More

Check out this startup’s slush(ie) fund: Apptentive employees try to crowdsource a drinks machine

The wacky end-of-winter weather in Seattle, which neared 80 degrees earlier this week, apparently has the employees of one startup… Read More

Ombraz

True shade: Ombraz raises $100K for its unique sunglasses — and commits to tree-planting efforts

Broken sunglasses or sunglasses that simply won’t stay on your face served as the motivation behind a product and Indiegogo… Read More

Heroclip

Do-it-all Heroclip releasing new sizes and colors; Indiegogo goal of $30K reached in less than a day

Heroclip, the hybrid gear clip created by a former University of Washington professor, has a new hook to attract fans… Read More

Jabba's Sail Barge

Star Wars fans spend $3.85M to back Jabba’s Barge, Hasbro’s biggest Star Wars toy vehicle ever

Fire up the R2-D2 drink cart! Star Wars geeks are going to get Jabba’s Sail Barge, a nearly 4-foot-long replica… Read More

Rider Oasis

Rider Oasis launches in Seattle with hope that vending machines become ‘Redbox for bike parts’

In increasingly congested Seattle, it’s not a stretch to imagine more young tech workers turning to bicycles as a way… Read More

Emergence Dark Ops

‘Emergence’ board game creators enjoy quick Kickstarter success again with ‘Dark Ops’

A group of Seattle-area board game designers, who found success on Kickstarter with their first idea a year ago for… Read More

Shampoo Buddy

Seattle mom engineers a remedy for bath-time tears and launches Kickstarter for Shampoo Buddy

Tiffany Platt was tired of the crying that came with trying to wash her young daughters’ hair. Sure, some of… Read More

(U.S. Holocaust Memorial Collection, gift of the family of Joseph Strip)

U.S. Holocaust Museum launches Kickstarter to preserve diaries and publish them online

While the writings of Anne Frank are certainly the most well-known diaries related to the Holocaust, a new Kickstarter campaign… Read More

Crowd Cow

Crowd Cow takes its crowd-funding beef business national, opens up delivery across the U.S.

Crowd Cow’s crowd of cow-tipping beef lovers just got a lot bigger. The Seattle-based startup announced Tuesday that it is… Read More

Coolest Cooler

Coolest Cooler delivers new update as deliveries trickle out for still-waiting Kickstarter backers

The ice melted many months ago. The drinks are beyond warm by now. Kickstarter backers who are still waiting on their… Read More

Outsider

Outdoors inspires Outsider, a wearable Bluetooth remote on Kickstarter aimed at action sports fans

Taking off your gloves on a ski lift to deal with a smartphone or some other device in your pocket… Read More

FlarePro bike light

Seattle-based Orfos lights the way for bikers and hikers as Kickstarter funds its new FlarePro

It can be pretty scary biking or running this time of year and fearing that you haven’t done enough to make… Read More

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