Brett Skaloud and Jeff Feiereisen both worked on some of the most cutting-edge technology ever created at Amazon, with specific focus on helping to start the company’s cashierless Amazon Go… Read More
A Seattle startup is partnering with PopSockets to turn the popular smartphone grip into a miniature Amazon Alexa device. Known as TalkSocket, the new product has two internal microphones that… Read More
Austin Hirsh is ready for his next smoothie move: the young Seattle entrepreneur with a plan to turn potential food waste into a beverage powder is officially launching his product… Read More
Like warm beers around the campfire, the saga involving the infamous Kickstarter project Coolest Cooler took another sad turn over the weekend as the company announced it was shutting down… Read More
Cal McAllister was a long way from work and any whiteboards when inspiration struck. Vacationing in Thailand with his family, he was excited to show his little girls the beautiful… Read More
Half Truth, a trivia party game by “Jeopardy!” legend Ken Jennings and “Magic: The Gathering” creator Richard Garfield — both Seattle-area locals — has raised over a quarter-million dollars from… Read More
You might think that caffeine fuels a lot of the innovative ideas that come out of Seattle’s tech community. But what does that say about what Andy Liu is drinking… Read More
Just two days after yet another Apple event promoting another new iPhone, a small tech company in Redmond, Wash., called Teracube is launching a Kickstarter for a phone of its… Read More
Andy Kleitsch was pacing, sipping and talking rapidly during a phone conversation on Thursday morning. The Seattle entrepreneur had had multiple cups of coffee already — and he’d just launched… Read More
Today’s featured stories Want to live ‘in real life’ and block out screens? These glasses on Kickstarter may do the trick Washington Gov. Inslee says state is ready for Trump… Read More
“Screen, screen, everywhere a screen Blockin’ out the scenery, breakin’ my mind Do this, don’t do that, can’t you read the screen?” How’s that for a modern refresh on the… Read More
Beyond the obvious need to raise cash, crowdfunding solves a variety of issues for a young company with an idea and a dream. Whether figuring out who the customer is… Read More
Back in March, we had a talk with Jeff Vogel, the Seattle-based developer who, working almost solo, has been putting out massive computer RPGs like the Avernum and Exile series… Read More
There’s more to life than craft beer. That might be hard for some to swallow, especially in such a beer-crazy place as Seattle. But at PicoBrew, it was time to… Read More
Shipments of a new wireless WiFi-enabled sous vide cooking device from high-tech cooking startup Sansaire have been delayed as the company seeks more funding for production and manufacturing. Sansaire pushed manufacturing of… Read More
A group of Seattle-area board game designers, who found success on Kickstarter with their first idea a year ago for a game called “Emergence,” are back on the crowd funding… Read More
Tiffany Platt was tired of the crying that came with trying to wash her young daughters’ hair. Sure, some of those may have been her own stress-induced tears, but Platt… Read More
The 20,000 Kickstarter backers who have been waiting two years for their high-tech Coolest Cooler to arrive learned they may have to wait another three after founder and CEO Ryan… Read More
From the comfort of his remote, sprawling farm in southwest Washington state, inventor Erik Kettenburg has orchestrated a series of successful Kickstarters for his maker-friendly creations, but his latest project… Read More
While the writings of Anne Frank are certainly the most well-known diaries related to the Holocaust, a new Kickstarter campaign aims to preserve and digitize compelling stories from other victims… Read More
Promising a “fun, mind-bending experience with friends that doesn’t involve legal marijuana,” a new Seattle-based Kickstarter project called Spektra is looking for funding so that it can build out a… Read More
PicoBrew, the Seattle-based makers of high-tech home-brew machines, just gave the boot to the Precision Cooker on Kickstarter. The Pico Model C brewing machine set a new record in the… Read More
If you’ve been waiting for an office with a window or a standing desk, you’re going to want to sit down for this one. Oh, you already are. Sorry! Anyway,… Read More
Raise another glass to the folks at PicoBrew as they continue to make advances in their quest to bring simplified home brewing machines to the masses. The Seattle-based startup launched… Read More
Champagne was popping at the Seattle offices of Moment on Friday morning after the smartphone lens and case maker reached a $500,000 goal on its latest Kickstarter campaign. Founder Marc Barros… Read More
Glowfolks — fans of 3D laser printer maker Glowforge — are sure to be happy about this. Shipments remain on schedule for July and August of this year, after they were delayed several… Read More
You may not have heard of Inventist, but if you’ve spent much time walking the streets of downtown Seattle lately, you’ve probably seen Shane Chen’s inventions. I had a chance… Read More
The ice melted many months ago. The drinks are beyond warm by now. Kickstarter backers who are still waiting on their Coolest Cooler deliveries got more lukewarm news on Friday in… Read More
Marc Barros has spent three years building a team and a product and learning about his customer. Now, his Seattle-based startup Moment is ready to offer a second generation of lenses… Read More
Kickstarter has given a boost to science projects ranging from satellites to “Bill Nye: Science Guy,” but now it’s opening a new frontier for crowdfunding: “Nova” documentaries for public TV. Today marks… Read More