Pebble Technology: Watch Kickstarter

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A number of interesting new designs have been coming out of Mobile World Congress this month, and a new Pebble watch recently set a new record on Kickstarter. To jack in to my brain and get more on the latest in science, tech and innovation, follow me here Smart watch maker Pebble is upping the ante ahead of the Apple Watch release. The indie watch maker today unveiled its new "Pebble Time" watch which stands out from previous models because it is thinner and features a color display and microphone. The company has sold more than 1 million of the original watch and this week launched its follow up, the Pebble Time, which touts longer battery life of seven days. The company turned to Kickstarter, where it raised $14 million and became the most funded There is an interesting correlation between the Pebble watch announcement and Kickstarter crashing. A quick visit to the Kickstarter status page indicates a “Partial Outage”. As it stands right now Kickstarter appears to be back online after a brief Pebble Technology, the company that made one of the best-selling smartwatches to date, seems ready to fight against Apple’s first smartwatch with a brand-new product of its own. To better compete against Apple’s highly customizable device, Pebble This year, the company might ship more than Apple. The smartwatch maker went back to Kickstarter, where it initially found enough funding to enter the smartwatch market, to fund its next watch, and again it set a record. Pebble set a Kickstarter record .

In many ways, Kickstarter is the latest evolution of this DRTV model. In the case of Pebble Time, if you were one of the first 10,000 backers, you were able to buy the watch for $159 -- a $40 savings off the retail price of $199. That offer was gone in a Interest in smart watches is so intense these days that smart watch pioneer Pebble set new Kickstarter fundraising campaign records in just a few hours Tuesday with its latest product, the Pebble Time. By early afternoon, the Palo Alto company’s The much-anticipated Apple Watch and Chicago designer Scott Wilson's coming Kickstarter campaign Scott Wilson, a Chicago product designer and to some a Kickstarter legend, says he has an Apple Watch case ready to launch on the crowdfunding site. Perhaps its not surprising that Apple has such high hopes for the smart watch. After all, Pebble’s latest Kickstarter campaign has raised over $16 million as of this writing, making it the most funded project in Kickstarter history. There’s clearly a .