A few months ago, we took a look at some of the best mobile tech Kickstarter projects at the time. The rate of crowd-funded innovation has hardly slowed in that time, so let’s take a look at ten more awesome Kickstarter projects that you can still back (if you’re quick).
1. Notti: a more beautiful smart light
Notti is basically a giant, stylish version of your phone’s LED notification light. The large geometric structure lights up in different colours to alert you to incoming texts, emails, calls and pretty much any other kind of notification you can imagine. The Notti’s battery lasts for 720+ hours (or 5 hours of continuous lighting), and even comes with a music visualiser mode. If you want this one, hurry – there’s only 70 minutes to go at the time of writing!
2. Reeljuice: portable power solution
Reeljuice is a handy portable charger that includes a built-in charging 48-inch cable, ensuring you don’t need to keep a cable with you to use it. It’s a simple idea, but it looks well-executed with plenty of extras. The Reeljuice is available in 4800 and 10,400 mAh options.
3. Soundlazer Snap: directional parametric speaker
The Soundlazer Snap is a curious speaker that focuses a beam of sound directly at your head. Instead of stinging a bit, this means that only you should be able to hear the speaker. That means you get the privacy of headphones without the discomfort of in-ear or on-ear headphones.
4. Z-Charge: phone and tablet bedside storage with charging
The Z-Charge is another idea that you’d be surprised hasn’t been done before. The Z-Charge is a bedside storage and charging system, giving you three pockets for smartphones or tablets on each side of your bed. It looks nice enough, and should beat having a ton of cables all over your bed or bedside table.
5. Everykey: wristband that replaces keys and passwords
EveryKey is a stylish-looking wristband that allows lets you to automatically unlock your smartphone or tablet while you’re wearing it. The EveryKey also works to log you into websites, which is quite handy. The wristband looks fairly secure, with AES 128-bit encryption and some sensible sounding security schemes.
6. Ramos: remotely deactivated alarm clock
Ramos is an alarm clock. It looks pretty standard, but when it goes off you can’t just reach over and slap it until it shuts up. Instead, you have to get out of bed and press your phone to a Ramos Bluetooth Beacon somewhere else in your room or house. If you’re particularly groggy in the morning, you can turn on a ‘defuse code’ that makes you memorise and repeat a four digit number.
7. Lumera: smartphone sharing and features for your DSLR
The Lumera is a way of bringing smartphone innovations to the world of DSLR photography. That includes one-click sharing to social media, wireless capture of images and video, remote change of settings, streaming of the live view, timelapses and GPS tagging. All of this is done from a small box that goes into the 1/4″ screw mount on the bottom of your camera
8. Qi teamaker: an innovative brewing experience
The Qi teamaker is essentially a fancy kettle, capable of brewing up loads of different kinds of tea, with different settings for each. The upshot is that you get a perfect cup of tea every time, and you can even track its progress and change settings using a mobile app.
9. Appiom: manage your kid’s online activity from anywhere
Appiom is a mobile app that lets you quickly and easily control your child’s access to the internet. You can block WiFi or LTE access, block certain apps and set time limits and alerts. The actual hardware is a small green box that plugs into your router using an ethernet cable, and requires no configuration on your router.
10. SyncStop: prevent data theft and malware on mobile devices
USB connections provide two lines of power and two lines of data. Normally you’d want both, but if you’re just charging your phone, you only want the power lines to be connected – particularly if you’re using a public USB charging port. With a data connection you can copy photos or contacts, delete important files or install malware, so it’s best to remove that possibility. The SyncStop cuts those data lines, preventing your device from automatically syncing, and any files from being copied, deleted or installed.
Signing off
Thanks for checking out our Kickstarter mobile tech roundup! Let us know what you think of each project in the comments below or on Twitter @mobilefun.