Crowdfunding

​A couple of years ago, design firm Carlo Ratti Associati showcased a system in which drones were used to draw images on walls. It was very clever, but perhaps not something that could become a commercial product. The company's Scribit wall-drawing robot, however, is intended to be just that.

​According to its creators, the currently-crowdfunding PocketSprite is the world’s smallest playable emulation device. It isn't just tiny, though – it plays all Game Boy, Game Boy Color, Sega Master System, and Game Gear games, plus users can upload other games via Wi-Fi.

​A little over a year after launching a crowdfunding campaign to develop a new electric city car, Sweden's Uniti has unveiled the One. There's been a range increase, and the top speed has been bumped up, but it was the odd-looking games controller steering system that stole the show.​

UK singer/songwriter Pete Roe has announced a follow up to the Submarine pickup. Where the first model added extra dimension to two strings only, the Pro's six magnetic coils can pick up signals from each of a guitar's six strings. The player uses switches to determine the route of the signals.​

The lightweight LMX 161-H is an electric motorcycle styled after downhill bicycles, fusing elements from both worlds. Initially designed for extreme off-road use, the two-wheeler is now the subject of crowdfunding campaign in search of the resources required to homologate it for the street.

Laser engravers are traditionally big, bulky units, meaning you have to cart the item you want engraved to the engraver. But a new laser engraver makes it easy to bring the engraver to the item. Controlled via a smartphone app, Cubiio literally puts a laser engraver in the palm of your hand.

Hanging art sounds like one of the easiest home projects around, but in reality, things can get pretty complex – especially if you're hanging multiple pieces. Now, Absolut Art has launched a Kickstarter campaign for a device that will make the project as simple as pouring yourself a vodka tonic.

Throwing some of your hard-earned dosh at projects on crowdfunding platforms is a bit of a gamble. Even successful campaigns can fail to deliver. Sometimes though, an idea makes it into production. Here are a few music-making project success stories.

After promising autonomous flight and shooting modes after simply tossing it into the air, makers of the Lily drone are set to deliver on neither after today announcing they will be winding down operations.

If you're really the cycling-gadget type, then it's possible that your bike could have a computer, headlight, camera and phone all mounted on the handlebars. Sound a little cluttered? Well, that's why British startup Vudu7 created the V.

Following our look at the most bizarre crowdfunding campaigns out there, one of the entries, Candwich, issued us a challenge to try one of its sandwiches in a can. We tried two, and here's what we think.

​Range anxiety is a priority for many EVs, but others are steering into the skid with small EVs designed for short-range city driving. Joining them is the Swedish startup Uniti, which has just hit its crowdfunding goal to develop a prototype of its own little electric city car by the end of 2017.