7 Krazy Kickstarter tech

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Jamie Shuck July 8, 2014

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A potato salad has hit the headlines for receiving $62,000 (and counting) of funding through crowdsourcing website Kickstarter. We have had a rummage through Kickstarter to see what technology projects are just not getting the attention they deserve.

1. Personal drone detection

Turn your home or office into a no-fly zone, with this Personal Drone Detection System. Next stop is Anti Drone Missiles on your rooftop and Rail-guns in the car park.

2. Number plate alerts

Let your car speak to you with this application to connect your phone to your number plate and allow for someone to send a message to you. (This will certainly never backfire if successfully funded. We can picture it now, pleasant road rage over SMS)

3. Make your own Emoji

Feeling that your Emoji library is a bit sparse? Hate to wait for the updates? Well, now you don’t have to. Turn any image you want into one and Emoji until your hearts content, or thumbs bleed, whichever comes first.

4. Virtual love locks

We’ve all seen the bridges in romantic cities, like Paris, which are covered in padlocks symbolising a couple's unbreakable love. In fact, so many people have done this that bridges are getting damaged due to the cumulative weight.

Well, now you and your significant other can now have a padlock to symbolise your love, without those pesky trips abroad, thanks to Virtual Love locks (all stored on the cloud so it's with you wherever you go.)

5. Solar powered watch

At first we thought this idea was a bit over the top, a solar powered watch? We’ve never really had an issue with our watch batteries. But this could actually be a really interesting concept, as the watch's solar panels can charge a phone 25 percent, which is pretty handy when you’re out and about. We think, just refine the design to make it look more finished and functional, i.e. an actual clock face, and we’d potentially move over our Pebbles on those long days out.

6. Pool snorkel

While we have to applaud this creator's ingenuity and concept, we actually think it's a pretty good idea for those trips to the coral reef, or just fun on the beach. But it’s let down by the prototype being rather homemade and fairly easily replicated, by anyone with access to some rubber tubing and a large polystyrene ball. But then again this is what crowdsourcing is all about - good ideas. We hope this inventor get his $1,200.

7. Football watch

Need to know the football scores all the time, and don’t want to take your phone out your pocket? Well then, this watch is for you.

7 Krazy Kickstarter tech

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