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Kickstarter campaign aims to save Johns Hopkins birthplace
A group of preservationists has turned to crowdfunding in hopes of saving Whites Hall, the historic 18th-century house in Crofton, Maryland, that was the birthplace of Johns Hopkins.
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Felines on the Red Line? Funds sought for Metro ad campaign
A Gaithersburg woman’s Kickstarter campaign aims to fill advertising space at a D.C. Metro station with big pictures of cats. (Don’t laugh: It’s been done in London.)
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Kickstarter to save Dorothy’s ruby red slippers at Smithsonian
Nearly 80 years old, Dorothy’s ruby red slippers from “The Wizard of Oz” are in desperate need of repairs. So the museum that houses them has launched a Kickstarter campaign.
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Crowdfunding fuels startup innovation at CES
In years past, aspiring entrepreneurs would turn to family and friends for startup funds. Now, services like Kickstarter and CES are doing wonders to help new businesses.
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Crowdfunding campaign revives ‘Mystery Science Theater 3000’
The show that riffed on terrible B-movies is coming back to life.
3 years ago -
KickStarter bans possibly too-good-to-be-true razor
WASHINGTON — The demand for new laser razor that would provide a smooth shave is clearly strong enough for people to put up crowdfunding money — what’s not clear is that the Skarp Laser Razor…
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Why This Jacket Made Almost $10 Million Before It Was Ever Made
(NEW YORK) — How did a jacket that hadn’t even been manufactured yet make almost $10 million? It’s one of the most successful Kickstarter campaigns of all time — one its creators started out with…
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Trading ruffles for robots: Princess Awesome makes alternative dresses for girls
WASHINGTON — Little girls may be made of sugar, spice and everything nice, but that doesn’t mean their dresses need to be. In fact, a successful Kickstarter campaign is proving that many little girls prefer…
4 years ago -
Boyfriend invents way to keep girlfriend from falling in toilet
WASHINGTON — Few things can squelch a woman’s feelings of romance more than falling into a toilet. Alex Pai, a doctoral student in Electrical Engineering at California Institute of Technology, realized he’d blown it, when…
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Making yourself anonymous online
A Kickstarter project in the works could make it easier and cheaper to make yourself anonymous onliine.
4 years ago -
D.C. man wants Kenny Loggins to play his living room
A local man is using Kickstarter to try to get performer Kenny Loggins to play a concert in his living room.
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Virginia theater pleads: ‘Save Our Butts’
University Mall Theatres wants to replace 500 of its old chairs with new leatherette seats. But it needs the public\’s help.
5 years ago -
How to fill 100 water balloons in 1 minute (Video)
No more time-consuming stretching and tying — it will soon be possible to fill up to 100 water balloons in a minute.
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Kickstarter campaign helps high-tech cooler raise more than $5.2M (Video)
One Kickstarter campaign is really helping people step up their
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New machine is like Keurig for craft beer
A soon-to-be-released dispenser will enable craft beer lovers to conveniently have a wide variety of beer right from the brewery, fresh on tap.
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