This is a mobile era, when everything is becoming thinner, lighter and more portable. But not our adapters. Why are we overloading ourselves with chunky brick power charger, and bringing multiple adapters for different devices?

Creoqode Nova is an Arduino-based Artificial Intelligence (AI) robot. Nova comes as an all-inclusive do-it-yourself kit allowing users to build their own AI robot and to practice their coding and engineering skills by controlling it in various ways. Nova teaches the users about coding, electronics and many other engineering concepts including computer vision, image processing, kinematics and control theory.

  Oxfordshire-based start up company, KLiK Robotics have created a range of self balancing robot kits to inspire students to engage in projects learning about programming, robotics and electronics in the process.

New York-based public benefit crowd funding corporation, Kickstarter, has the mission statement of ‘helping to bring creative projects to life’. Founded in 2009 Kickstarter has so far helped to launch over 350,000 projects and has received pledges in excess of $3bn. That’s a lot of products and a lot of dollars. So, what have been the stand-out projects in Kickstarter’s eight years in existence.

Since the invention of the incandescent light bulb in 1879, lights have illuminated every aspect of our lives. A supposed breakthrough in the electronic world that connects humans to light is launching its crowdfunding campaign on Kickstarter on 5th September. Heelight is a digital sound controlled bulb. It needs neither internet nor Bluetooth and iIt can understand digital sound command’s instruction.

There is an increasing number and variety of IoT devices and forecasts are showing even faster growth in the coming years. Large and small companies are rushing to get their new embedded electronic products on the market. In product development, utilising open-source software projects has been standard procedure for a long time. However, it’s normal to keep the hardware design files secret. Companies with new product ideas must start from s...

Dr Toby Bateson is aiming to raise £65,000 through Kickstarter to manufacture RatMat, a humane electrified rodent repellent flooring.

Being in a wheelchair for long periods at a time can be difficult on the body in a number of ways. One issue, particularly common in the summer, is the back not receiving enough ventilation. This prevents cooling of the back, creates the buildup of sweat, and discomfort. A new device is now on KickStarter looking for crowdfunding that may be a cheap and easy solution to keeping the back cool and comfortable.

Heather Corcoran leads outreach for Kickstarter in the UK and Europe, with a focus on the design and technology communities. Based in London, she works closely with innovators, creators and makers who use Kickstarter to bring new products to life. At May’s Hardware Pioneers event in London she offered some tips for designers looking for crowdfunding.

Got a software app and need a hardware platform to launch with? Or are you looking for an IoT microcomputer that enables connectivity in small spaces or at edge of network? Based in Sydney, Australia, the team at SRKH Designs has announced that their innovative dual stack microcomputer Virtualette V1 launched on Kickstarter on 31st January 2017.

With the support of Robotae, a robotics and mechatronics consultancy, Motion Metrics has developed Carv – the world’s first digital ski coach that uses a smart boot insert to capture motion and pressure.

With the support of Robotae, a robotics and mechatronics consultancy, Motion Metrics has developed Carv – the world’s first digital ski coach that uses a smart boot insert to capture motion and pressure. The idea for a ski coach came to co-founder Jamie Grant during his PhD at Imperial College London.

goTenna Mesh is the first 100% off-grid, mobile, long-range consumer-ready mesh network. The device pairs with your smartphone to enable communication even when you don’t have service. Absolutely no towers, routers and satellites required. Create people-powered connectivity absolutely anytime, anywhere.

Tech companies all over the world have been wrestling with a problem - how to create an iBeacon solution that 'just works'. And Live Beacon have solved that problem. Imagine a device that you simply take out of the box, position, update using the simple cloud portal and within minutes you’re transmitting information. No more messing around with over complicated configuration and programming. As Apple would say – “It just works!&...

Introduced on Kickstarter, ZEI° is the 8-sided device which makes time tracking simple and elegant. No more minutes wasted writing how many minutes it takes to write the minutes.