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Yeah, that was a reasonable (albeit pricey) product. Daniel might be unaware that cardboard cat scratchers (one of which was incorporated into the Boxy Bed) are popular. As explained in the campaign, the cardboard is _much_ thicker, denser and sturdier than the type commonly used for shipping. This looked like a well designed box that a cat couldn't easily shred and scatter all over the room.
The cat box idea could be expanded into something interesting. What if all the boxes (modules) stacked like Legos and you would build a cat fortress on the walls of your house? All modules, each sold separately, would ship flat and you just unpack and snap them together. There would be different activities for the cat in each module. Anyone want to back me?
Boxy Bed is quite literally a standard bankers file box without its lid and spray-painted!, any office supply store has them for $1 each if your just getting 1-2 of them if your getting them by bulk they can be as little as 0.20 cents each lol!.
Over at Techmoan, he looks at a similar MP3 player build into one of these merchandising badge button thingies. Surprise, it wasn't really a commercial success, either: th-cam.com/video/EwoTlgyUYlE/w-d-xo.html
Was going to make a comment as soon as I saw that. That line along with the look he gives gave me an actual chill that only the most pure concentrated cringe can give. It was truly uncomfortable, and a legitimate example of cringe (an oft overused/misuded term nowadays.)
So this guy designs the exterior of his saliva detector first... then works on the interior components. What happens if the innards end up being bigger than the casing? I guess he could hold a *second* Kickstarter for an exterior casing redesign. :)
Seems like a scam, but he might've just been a clueless guy who designed what he thought the product should be like before actually doing any actual prototyping (ya know, a functional one).
That's what happened with the Ritot projection watch. It looked cool and very scifi, except that projecting images on a moving hand is not user-friendly and it is VERY hard to put a very lightweight projector that could do that in the size of a watch. So they build a prototype and...it is massive af. Pretty hilarious to look at, but I gotta give them credit that they made something.
This "cheap" MP3 player for an album concept already exists and has been around quite awhile. Only it was sold for audio books. Libraries can loan them out and you plug in a pair of headphones and can listen to the entire audio book. It runs on a single AA cell and has a few buttons and an LCD. The difference is you can buy these on ebay for only a few dollars now. The company is called "playaway".
I would probably tie with Tiger Electronics' Hit Clips (1999). Sure the quality might be atrocious and the songs only one minute long but the costs are way more reasonable and can actually have a selection of different songs.
I just had a customer like that today. I call these The Princess Orders cuz I wouldn't be surprised if they expect us to kowtow when we serve them their food. Orders a bunch of specifics, which is fine, after all it's my job to make it how they want it, but of course it's never good enough and returns it back. Considering the weather is now getting hot and they're sitting on a nice air conditioned dining room while I'm busy with 5 other orders in a kitchen that's as hot as outside, trying to get these orders out as quickly as possible, yeah, I'm not shocked that he would consider such a device as a necessity.
I think a lot of people tend to seriously over-estimate how often food service workers spit in people's food. If they get caught doing that they'll definitely be fired and it's not really worth it to risk their livelihood over such petty revenge.
Heiankyo Alien It's probably one of those things people mistakenly think is commonplace because of movies. Modern movies will depict workers spitting in or otherwise contaminating food because the writers somehow think audiences will find it funny or satisfying, but instead most people feel disturbed and disgusted.
Yeah I work at an olive garden and it would be pretty much impossible for a cook or server to get away with spitting in someone's food. Not to mention that if they got caught which would be very likely, well they'd be shit canned on the spot.
I dunno. If it happens on Beavis and Butt-Head, then it has to happen in real life, right? Remember frog baseball? I could go to the pet shop today and buy a frog and hit it with a baseball batt. J\K I've never met anyone who worries about having their food spit in. I guess then are plenty of paranoid people with a persecution complex. Like Tommy Tallarico. Actually, he probably is the one person who SHOULD worry about people spitting in his food. I'd risk getting fired as long as I knew he actually ate the food. In fact, I'd try as hard as possible to put me at infected with Ebola virus in his food. And I didn't even get ripped off on his Amico wet dream ightmare. Maybe I can dress up as the little mermaid and pretend to give him a lap dance long enough to stick a knife in his throat. 👆This text is just a movie idea I'm laying out for the comment. The FBI does not need to come to my house and see what I'm up to. I'm just spitballing ideas for a movie script (horror\thriller) about a deranged Amico backer who kidnaps Mr. T and takes him to a remote cabin to torture him. Think Saw/Hostel.
Whoa! myIDkey made the top spot? That makes me feel all warm and fuzzy. My company was contracted to do the OS for the second, feature-rich version of the myIDkey. I still have a bunch of them in a box at work (a box without a cat in it). I sought out the Ars Technica article, and it seems accurate up to the point it was published. Arkami was acquired by a company which makes fingerprint scanners -- yet another change made to the (at the time stable and working) hardware. For being the sole function of that company, there were a lot of issues with the reader: not even the underlying technology, either, but just the simple interface to the software. It has been a few years now, but I think the interrupt line didn't work right. Thanks for this trip down memory lane!
That one kinda hurt to hear about - they mostly had it all together, and then the fucking moron running the company decided to change the design over and over and over and over, until they run out of money, and the damn thing doesn't even fucking work, despite them even stating that the only real issue was that the components inside could cause delays. The PROTOTYPE was good enough that they got 3 fucking million dollars ON TOP of the more than successful Kickstarter campaign... and the CEO manages to piss it all away for no good fucking reason. I mean, outside of the obvious reason of "he's a fucking moron." What was the point of redesigning it all the time anyway? Functionality should be the important thing here, not that it looks nice (which... the end result really didn't - the original USB stick looked much better IMO)... you'd think a CEO of a tech company would understand that. If the dude ever got a degree in business, he should be refunded all the money spent. Sorry, sorry, it's just... it worked. It got so much more backing than they originally thought they'd need (going by campaign goal), and the only real problem mentioned is "final product could end up delayed", but somebody without a functional brain just sinks the whole thing, and over something so trivial at that. IF a design change was needed or desired, then how about doing that AFTER your product is a success? And, y'know, actually works?
Geez.... This thing looks like something that any half-decent hardware-software guy (or gal!) could knock together in an afternoon or 2 with an Arduino, fingerprint reader, OLED display, serial EEPROM and a battery from E*ay! Why aren't these things everywhere?
The cat box isnt such a bad idea really, I can see it being sold in bulk for a low price at supermarkets/poundshops etc. For a fiver they would sell quite well. I like the way they put catmint in the box so the cat immediately jumps out of the other bed lol.
meetoo594 I would also buy it my cats love sleeping in boxes but one of them also has the bad habit of ripping chunks out of the cardboard ones leaving the shreds everywhere and boxy bed is marketed as 600x stronger so perhaps he wouldn’t chew it apart so I wouldn’t have to replace them constantly
I don't think the "spitscanner" could even work, even right now the only way you can look for body fluids is with an UV light, and well, meat and cheese is literately pieces of flesh and body fluids. It in theory might work on a salad with no dressing, or a vegetable platter. On the other hand, with the right LED's and camera lens you could probably check for salmonella or e.coli with just the camera part of a cell phone via " fluorescence imaging" (and in fact there were devices like this proposed back in 2012.) However that doesn't tell you anything about any spit unless the person was already sick.
If there's one thing owning a cat taught me, it's to not waste money on him. He has a nice cat tree, ceramic dishes, two lovely soft cat beds - and he sleeps in a fucking shoe box and drinks from the bathroom basin. Any kickstarter trying to sell stuff for cats is insane.
Hahaha, I got an advertisement in the video that I thought was still part of the Kickscammer video. Something about a speaker that harnesses the power of sound along with light. Then I noticed it was ad. Ha
I actually like the idea. If your cat loves boxes you can get a nice looking one for our cat. but the price is out to lunch. Shouldent pay more than 10$ for a pretty box.
@@FennecTECH Yeah I was going to say it isn't a bad idea, $10 is a reasonable price for it. I'm pretty sure it would be sold for about $15 and some would still buy it. $35 is just insane.
Hanky McSpanky Actually the thrusting/humping is important for maintaining pelvic and thus general spine health. However, I doubt that this guy's "chair" would contribute anything much to the relevant muscles.
I could almost see the point of that flarian music player thing if the price was like 2 bucks and could be handed out in a promotional context... but for what these guys are intending.. and the price.. its just insane. complete lack of business awareness.
Even like the price of a commercial CD would probably be acceptable (assuming the transfer-to-an-MP3 player functionality is something artists even agree to allow and the music is sourced legally). But yeah, disposable music players that cost significantly more than the music itself are a dumb idea.
Elvarg RS (heh, love the screen name...) Truly this. I mean, if they were looking to develop a cheap, disposable technology for labels to sell alongside CDs in music and entertainment stores, that would be as cheap to mass produce as a CD, then that would be something to be interested in. Heck, even if the devices were a bit more than a standard CD but the marketing went out of its way to highlight the user's ability to listen to the album immediately, not to mention being able to quickly sort and copy the files onto a permanent playback device without a CD-ROM drive, they'd have something. But I really can't see how an electronic device such as this would be able to pull off that level of affordability. After figuring just the hardware costs - battery, playback circuitry, storage, input buttons, headphone jack, USB connector, there's no way all of that will cost the same to produce as the literal pennies it costs to make a CD-R.
Wait... what if Peter Molyneux were to find Kick Starter... would that mean we'd have to hear Guru Larry on KickScammers? I mean, under the notion that DJ Slopes is not the same person as Guru Larry (have we seen the two of them in the same room at the same time? Exactly!)...
One hint for you, Mr. Ibbertson : Witchmarsh. Promising game, beautiful pixel art, funded kickstarter, then fewer and fewer updates since 2015. And if I remember correctly, they are now working on another game, while assuring that progress on Witchmarsh is being made.
LOL. That adage can be said for anything. The genocidal maniac was not able to cleanse a country of an entire ethnic group, but at least he tried... Come on. Sometimes trying is not a good thing. No, the important thing is that people see these failures and unhappy "customers" and think twice before backing any kickstarter type program. There are many stupid and unfeasible ideas out there and people need to be more practical when considering who to back.
The dicewear thing is actually run by a really savvy kid. I think she's barely high school age and went though and picked out easy to memorize words and a good rolling system to roll for people. It's actually pretty popular with some people, she even sends you the password by mail so you have a physical copy not sent though any messenger so it's even safer.
Those music players were probably partially inspired by play-a-ways which were portable audiobooks around the same size and were only on book at a time
What I find ironic about the finger scanner is that there is an episode of mythbusters in which they show that finger scanners are actually pretty easy to crack, so if the kickstarter was successful, anyone who had one would be possibly compromised.
I don't have a use for a key fob that remembers my passwords, but I thought the first design was way better than that oval one. I also like that it was way smaller too. It seems like if they didn't redesign it and focused on making it actually WORK then it would have probably had more of a chance to succeed. It's kinda shitty that the guy that redesigned it so many times basically just said "oh well most of these things don't work out, not my fault."
Oh yeah, there's absolutely no chance that hardware built into that last password device secretly could be used to steal info. There's no chance of that at all... (seriously, why would someone think that's a smart idea to plug a device into your computer with possibly unknown components like that)
TBH the cat box thing wasn't terrible, just had way too high of a funding goal, and price point. My cats have something similar that is also purpose built with a very cheap replaceable scratch pad in the bottom, it is like thick industrial cardboard tube strength material. My cats are also Maine Coons that weigh like 25 pounds and blow out normal boxes though, but these boxes are going 3 years strong now.
Chickenhound, They are very, very stiff cardboard that I can barely bend if I try, so I would wager they might make some tiny dents in it or maybe a small tooth sized hole, but I doubt they would be able to bite through it, or tear it. it's called the "Scratch Lounge: The original Scratch Lounge" It's a very pale green color, the nice thing is that the replaceable scratch pads on both the sides and bottoms are replaceable and also reversible, so when one side gets torn up too badly, flip it over and its a new pad. You still will get some cardboard pieces, but it's almost like cardboard dustbunnies rather than strips. I vaccum out the torn up cardboard inside the box when I vaccum so it doesn't get everywhere.
I think the 1st prototype for that last one looks much slicker. Also looked a lot smaller with a more practical shape. It's a shame so many people invest extra when they get much more money than what they need. If they had common sense they'd just deliver the promised product, then just keep the rest as profit or invest it in the next product.
thenonexistinghero Im not a business man or an economist, but why not use the rest of the money for manufacturing rather then pointlessly redesigning a perfectly functional product?
I think it's because some people scale their ambitions or goals according to the percentage or amount that they receive from the crowdfunding campaign. So, they add more features or redesign the product to make it better, yet all we really wanted was what we were promised in the beginning. :c
Why would I put my cat in what's essentially a coloured cell? Plus, "Perfect fit"? How do you know how big my cat is? And that it fits in this box? And my cat just chills in my old Amazon boxes cos it likes to tear the cardboard, so this is just gonna piss it off.
I first read myidkey as "my kidney"... i would but a kidney from kickstarter. Nice use of vaperwave in the background of a video about vaperware products. And an 8-bit Benny Hill song at the end? Love it. Keep making great videos man.
Totally, but a person needs to temper their paranoia with reason, as what are the real chances that someone will spit in your food, even if you're being a total jerk to the staff? I've worked in fast food for years and never seen or heard that happening while I was there. Most employees just want to move on and forget angry customers and go home after work.
Slopes Game Room has do it again! I love these as well as his "Complete Histories". I back a lot of stuff on Kickstarter (especially board games), so it is always great to see someone dive into the seedier side of crowdfunding.
I don't know why, but I love these Kickscammer videos. They're addictively interesting. Oh, will there be an update video on the Mansion Lord incident? That mention on the last video was actually hella intriguing.
I'm surprised you didn't ad the phone ring on here. I don't remember the exact name, but it was some kind of ring you put on you finger and was supposed to operate your phone for you. It was sent out, but people quickly learned it didn't work Edit: here it is www.kickstarter.com/projects/1761670738/ring-shortcut-everything
Not gonna lie, that cat box looks freaking adorable. Too bad most cats will sleep everywhere but the beds you purchase for them so it would be a waste of money regardless
Cat Box Beds, now with Catnip are actually in stores! Bought one for a Gag at Walmart. This was my second... The one without Catnip she didn't even give a crap about, I got my face ran over in the middle of that night. (Unclear if her Soberity played a factor) Catnip Spray with Shoebox had better, cheaper results though.
Those Flarian guys are brilliant. Their footage was hilarious and they did a great job of making it look real, when it was a deliberate attempt at going viral.
I was in another room when you started the Password part. So when I heard Mike Jeavons talking about the dice password thing I thought "WHAT????". Only after I came back to the room and went back did I figure out you must have just had him read that as a favor.
Building your life´s work around the fact someone spit in your coffee. Love how he shows an image of a fast food worker spitting on the food and inmediately after a picture of a biohard response team :D
If someone could do that chair for somewhere in the ballpark if $500, I think you could sell the hell out of it. Maybe make the movements look a little less "pelvicy", but there's something there.
The most secure place for passwords, is in a notebook. Crooks can't download your passwords if it is in a draw or cupboard in your bedroom. And every time you forget, you have to go get it which is a pain in the ass, which will teach you to remember more, and train your memory instead of going through life as a zombie.
Sadly, it’s not true that you must have a working prototype. I made a point to look up Kickstarter’s actual rules after Kickstarter kicked back my report about a campaign. Turns out the rules explicitly state that you can crowdfund to create a prototype, as long as you don’t mislead backers about the status of your prototype.
2:53 WHAT is that guy doing with his hands? He's certainly not typing! That looks hilarious! EDIT: I'm glad you pointed it out in the vid! What was he thinking?
The only slightly useful one is the BoxyBed. Why? Yes, a normal box would work just fine, but cats WOULD TOTALLY destroy a box in days if they can between scratching, laying, trying to find that perfect kitty sleeping spot and rubbing their body over it. The material seemed more than cleaning-friendly, might be a bit static after a while though so I'm not sure. But its more than valid, believe it or not. The joke? Just buy a plastic box, that would be even cheaper. Add a scratching board below if ya want. Still really crazy and kind of scammy, tbh. It's a silly box! :P Just buy a storage box in Walmart or something, add a pillowcase and catnip...I'm damn sure it would be cheaper than that kickstarter LOL
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It's great that non of your commenters type: "first". Except me of course xD
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Daniel Ibbertson awesome thanks
Hey daniel, is that a little girl speaking when you say "delivered" at about 52 seconds in?
Maybe it's because your other episodes were so good, but this one sucked. Should be named "Crowdfunding that never got funded"
Being honest, that cat Boxy Bed thing isn't THAT bad of an idea.
But it obviously didn't need a Kickstarter at all.
Yeah, that was a reasonable (albeit pricey) product. Daniel might be unaware that cardboard cat scratchers (one of which was incorporated into the Boxy Bed) are popular. As explained in the campaign, the cardboard is _much_ thicker, denser and sturdier than the type commonly used for shipping. This looked like a well designed box that a cat couldn't easily shred and scatter all over the room.
bonus with the cardboard bottom scratcher is sprinkling cat nip in it which causes the cats to want to stay in there making it very useful indeed
Yeah was going to say the exact same thing...
If you ask me, I think the Boxy Bed sounds more like an idea from someone who's been reading too many "Garfield" comic strips. ;)
if you sprinkle the pets favorite drug in a box im sure the cat is pretty likely to choose it over any other bed without drugs =)
The cat box idea could be expanded into something interesting. What if all the boxes (modules) stacked like Legos and you would build a cat fortress on the walls of your house? All modules, each sold separately, would ship flat and you just unpack and snap them together. There would be different activities for the cat in each module. Anyone want to back me?
I could make it myself with enough time and craziness, so nah.
So basically Nintendo Labo, but for cats.
Boxy Bed is quite literally a standard bankers file box without its lid and spray-painted!, any office supply store has them for $1 each if your just getting 1-2 of them if your getting them by bulk they can be as little as 0.20 cents each lol!.
That 'I love you' at the end of the Flairian Music Player was of epic Partridge levels of cringe.
Over at Techmoan, he looks at a similar MP3 player build into one of these merchandising badge button thingies. Surprise, it wasn't really a commercial success, either: th-cam.com/video/EwoTlgyUYlE/w-d-xo.html
I love the face the guy next to him does haha
Was going to make a comment as soon as I saw that. That line along with the look he gives gave me an actual chill that only the most pure concentrated cringe can give. It was truly uncomfortable, and a legitimate example of cringe (an oft overused/misuded term nowadays.)
All I can think of is that fucking Spongebob episode.
And the other guy looked like he had problems keeping back the guffaw at the gullible backers.
That exercise machine looks like Mr. Garrison's sex bike from South Park.
imwithstupid086 I remember that episode lol
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So this guy designs the exterior of his saliva detector first... then works on the interior components. What happens if the innards end up being bigger than the casing? I guess he could hold a *second* Kickstarter for an exterior casing redesign. :)
Seems like a scam, but he might've just been a clueless guy who designed what he thought the product should be like before actually doing any actual prototyping (ya know, a functional one).
Amstrad, the UK tech company, always designed the exterior first
That's what happened with the Ritot projection watch. It looked cool and very scifi, except that projecting images on a moving hand is not user-friendly and it is VERY hard to put a very lightweight projector that could do that in the size of a watch. So they build a prototype and...it is massive af. Pretty hilarious to look at, but I gotta give them credit that they made something.
Then he'd be as forward thinking as Microsoft.
This "cheap" MP3 player for an album concept already exists and has been around quite awhile. Only it was sold for audio books. Libraries can loan them out and you plug in a pair of headphones and can listen to the entire audio book. It runs on a single AA cell and has a few buttons and an LCD. The difference is you can buy these on ebay for only a few dollars now. The company is called "playaway".
I would probably tie with Tiger Electronics' Hit Clips (1999).
Sure the quality might be atrocious and the songs only one minute long but the costs are way more reasonable and can actually have a selection of different songs.
I can see why the first guy wants to have a spit detector
I just had a customer like that today. I call these The Princess Orders cuz I wouldn't be surprised if they expect us to kowtow when we serve them their food. Orders a bunch of specifics, which is fine, after all it's my job to make it how they want it, but of course it's never good enough and returns it back. Considering the weather is now getting hot and they're sitting on a nice air conditioned dining room while I'm busy with 5 other orders in a kitchen that's as hot as outside, trying to get these orders out as quickly as possible, yeah, I'm not shocked that he would consider such a device as a necessity.
I thought to myself "Anyone wearing a "Don't spit on my food!" T-shirt going into a restaurant is just asking to have their food spat in."
I think a lot of people tend to seriously over-estimate how often food service workers spit in people's food. If they get caught doing that they'll definitely be fired and it's not really worth it to risk their livelihood over such petty revenge.
Heiankyo Alien It's probably one of those things people mistakenly think is commonplace because of movies. Modern movies will depict workers spitting in or otherwise contaminating food because the writers somehow think audiences will find it funny or satisfying, but instead most people feel disturbed and disgusted.
Yeah I work at an olive garden and it would be pretty much impossible for a cook or server to get away with spitting in someone's food. Not to mention that if they got caught which would be very likely, well they'd be shit canned on the spot.
Umm.... I've seen the movie waiting and that's pretty a documentary soooo.....
Foodservice workers are much more likely to be spit ON by a customer than they are to spit in anyone's food.
I dunno. If it happens on Beavis and Butt-Head, then it has to happen in real life, right? Remember frog baseball? I could go to the pet shop today and buy a frog and hit it with a baseball batt. J\K
I've never met anyone who worries about having their food spit in. I guess then are plenty of paranoid people with a persecution complex. Like Tommy Tallarico. Actually, he probably is the one person who SHOULD worry about people spitting in his food. I'd risk getting fired as long as I knew he actually ate the food. In fact, I'd try as hard as possible to put me at infected with Ebola virus in his food. And I didn't even get ripped off on his Amico wet dream
ightmare.
Maybe I can dress up as the little mermaid and pretend to give him a lap dance long enough to stick a knife in his throat.
👆This text is just a movie idea I'm laying out for the comment. The FBI does not need to come to my house and see what I'm up to. I'm just spitballing ideas for a movie script (horror\thriller) about a deranged Amico backer who kidnaps Mr. T and takes him to a remote cabin to torture him. Think Saw/Hostel.
Whoa! myIDkey made the top spot? That makes me feel all warm and fuzzy.
My company was contracted to do the OS for the second, feature-rich version of the myIDkey. I still have a bunch of them in a box at work (a box without a cat in it).
I sought out the Ars Technica article, and it seems accurate up to the point it was published.
Arkami was acquired by a company which makes fingerprint scanners -- yet another change made to the (at the time stable and working) hardware. For being the sole function of that company, there were a lot of issues with the reader: not even the underlying technology, either, but just the simple interface to the software. It has been a few years now, but I think the interrupt line didn't work right.
Thanks for this trip down memory lane!
That one kinda hurt to hear about - they mostly had it all together, and then the fucking moron running the company decided to change the design over and over and over and over, until they run out of money, and the damn thing doesn't even fucking work, despite them even stating that the only real issue was that the components inside could cause delays.
The PROTOTYPE was good enough that they got 3 fucking million dollars ON TOP of the more than successful Kickstarter campaign... and the CEO manages to piss it all away for no good fucking reason. I mean, outside of the obvious reason of "he's a fucking moron."
What was the point of redesigning it all the time anyway? Functionality should be the important thing here, not that it looks nice (which... the end result really didn't - the original USB stick looked much better IMO)... you'd think a CEO of a tech company would understand that. If the dude ever got a degree in business, he should be refunded all the money spent.
Sorry, sorry, it's just... it worked. It got so much more backing than they originally thought they'd need (going by campaign goal), and the only real problem mentioned is "final product could end up delayed", but somebody without a functional brain just sinks the whole thing, and over something so trivial at that. IF a design change was needed or desired, then how about doing that AFTER your product is a success? And, y'know, actually works?
Geez.... This thing looks like something that any half-decent hardware-software guy (or gal!) could knock together in an afternoon or 2 with an Arduino, fingerprint reader, OLED display, serial EEPROM and a battery from E*ay! Why aren't these things everywhere?
Haha, this is why you can't let engineers go wild! If allowed, they will keep adding to something until they've completely broken it.
Wait, stop the presses, stop the video!
There's a "Pressure Washer: The Movie" kickstarter?!?!?!
would watch
This is the film we need to change Hollywood and unite the world once and for all
That design for the spit t-shirt was... questionable at best.
Are you sure that's spit?
The cat box isnt such a bad idea really, I can see it being sold in bulk for a low price at supermarkets/poundshops etc. For a fiver they would sell quite well.
I like the way they put catmint in the box so the cat immediately jumps out of the other bed lol.
fiver is a bit cheap for still a okey quality. 10-15 is more reasonable, depending on the durability of the box.
meetoo594 I would also buy it my cats love sleeping in boxes but one of them also has the bad habit of ripping chunks out of the cardboard ones leaving the shreds everywhere and boxy bed is marketed as 600x stronger so perhaps he wouldn’t chew it apart so I wouldn’t have to replace them constantly
@chickenhound: Yeah, my cat does that as well, he eventually reduces the box to a pile of scraps.
Your Kickstarter videos have quickly became my favorite type of videos you do, there's just so many fascinating stories with Kickstarter.
I don't think the "spitscanner" could even work, even right now the only way you can look for body fluids is with an UV light, and well, meat and cheese is literately pieces of flesh and body fluids. It in theory might work on a salad with no dressing, or a vegetable platter.
On the other hand, with the right LED's and camera lens you could probably check for salmonella or e.coli with just the camera part of a cell phone via " fluorescence imaging" (and in fact there were devices like this proposed back in 2012.) However that doesn't tell you anything about any spit unless the person was already sick.
If there's one thing owning a cat taught me, it's to not waste money on him. He has a nice cat tree, ceramic dishes, two lovely soft cat beds - and he sleeps in a fucking shoe box and drinks from the bathroom basin. Any kickstarter trying to sell stuff for cats is insane.
Hahaha, I got an advertisement in the video that I thought was still part of the Kickscammer video. Something about a speaker that harnesses the power of sound along with light. Then I noticed it was ad. Ha
Is there a kind of speaker that doesn't harness the power of sound?
Graknorke A broken one?
Lucky, I just keep getting ads for sketchy donald trump surveys that will probably put me on a watch list if i'm honest on them.
I mean, the Boxy Bed seems fine. High price point, but the product itself looks alright!
Cat box is a good idea. I’ll go make one
Agreed. The only problem imo is that it was 35 bux.
tbh, anyone who pledges for a box deserves to have their money stolen
I deadass thought the thing was a joke when i heard the “features”
I actually like the idea. If your cat loves boxes you can get a nice looking one for our cat. but the price is out to lunch. Shouldent pay more than 10$ for a pretty box.
@@FennecTECH Yeah I was going to say it isn't a bad idea, $10 is a reasonable price for it. I'm pretty sure it would be sold for about $15 and some would still buy it. $35 is just insane.
How do you even fail to deliver a box? I mean unless you work for any post company
That chair looks disturbingly sexual...
Gotta keep your thrusting form in top shape. Never know when you need to thrust on someone to prove your dominance.
I personally think it should have been marketed as a sexual position device for couples. Hell it could be fitted with flesh lights or dildos too.
Improve your VR experience by two times
"I wana take ya for a ride"
Hanky McSpanky Actually the thrusting/humping is important for maintaining pelvic and thus general spine health. However, I doubt that this guy's "chair" would contribute anything much to the relevant muscles.
I could almost see the point of that flarian music player thing if the price was like 2 bucks and could be handed out in a promotional context... but for what these guys are intending.. and the price.. its just insane. complete lack of business awareness.
Even like the price of a commercial CD would probably be acceptable (assuming the transfer-to-an-MP3 player functionality is something artists even agree to allow and the music is sourced legally). But yeah, disposable music players that cost significantly more than the music itself are a dumb idea.
Elvarg RS
(heh, love the screen name...)
Truly this. I mean, if they were looking to develop a cheap, disposable technology for labels to sell alongside CDs in music and entertainment stores, that would be as cheap to mass produce as a CD, then that would be something to be interested in. Heck, even if the devices were a bit more than a standard CD but the marketing went out of its way to highlight the user's ability to listen to the album immediately, not to mention being able to quickly sort and copy the files onto a permanent playback device without a CD-ROM drive, they'd have something.
But I really can't see how an electronic device such as this would be able to pull off that level of affordability. After figuring just the hardware costs - battery, playback circuitry, storage, input buttons, headphone jack, USB connector, there's no way all of that will cost the same to produce as the literal pennies it costs to make a CD-R.
For the price of both models, you could get a LP box set.
Wait... what if Peter Molyneux were to find Kick Starter... would that mean we'd have to hear Guru Larry on KickScammers?
I mean, under the notion that DJ Slopes is not the same person as Guru Larry (have we seen the two of them in the same room at the same time? Exactly!)...
Katrina Payne 😂😂
Actually, he already has (I mean Molyneux has already used Kickstarter). Look up "Godus" and yes, of course it's a dissapointment.
Yes,we have seen them together at the same time.
It's funny cause I really thought they were the same person for like half a year or so lmfao
Probably because Slopes videos are cross posted on Larry's account. That's where I found DJ Slope.
@2:54 Fakest typing evar
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I had to pause and find this comment, how is this not a Tim and Eric skit?!
One hint for you, Mr. Ibbertson : Witchmarsh. Promising game, beautiful pixel art, funded kickstarter, then fewer and fewer updates since 2015. And if I remember correctly, they are now working on another game, while assuring that progress on Witchmarsh is being made.
Pressure Washer: The Movie sounds like something you'd find on Rick's inter-dimensional tv box.
The important thing is that they tried!
LOL. That adage can be said for anything. The genocidal maniac was not able to cleanse a country of an entire ethnic group, but at least he tried... Come on. Sometimes trying is not a good thing.
No, the important thing is that people see these failures and unhappy "customers" and think twice before backing any kickstarter type program. There are many stupid and unfeasible ideas out there and people need to be more practical when considering who to back.
The people trying to get a KS refund? I agree.
Chair guy music (Macintosh plus) is my ring tone. Made me look!
When the MYIDKey segment starts, I keep misreading it as "MyKidney."
I honestly would nominate the throw-away MP3 Player and its inventors for a Darwin Award. Absolute genius!
Idk, I kinda like how it’s more expressive that all the minimalist and bland devices of the late 10’s
The dicewear thing is actually run by a really savvy kid. I think she's barely high school age and went though and picked out easy to memorize words and a good rolling system to roll for people. It's actually pretty popular with some people, she even sends you the password by mail so you have a physical copy not sent though any messenger so it's even safer.
Those music players were probably partially inspired by play-a-ways which were portable audiobooks around the same size and were only on book at a time
What I find ironic about the finger scanner is that there is an episode of mythbusters in which they show that finger scanners are actually pretty easy to crack, so if the kickstarter was successful, anyone who had one would be possibly compromised.
Macintosh plus was fitting for this video, love that A E S T H E T I C ! Great video man!
Honestly, the cat bed is pretty damn cute. I’m not gonna lie. I’d probably get that for my cat if I had one
I don't have a use for a key fob that remembers my passwords, but I thought the first design was way better than that oval one. I also like that it was way smaller too. It seems like if they didn't redesign it and focused on making it actually WORK then it would have probably had more of a chance to succeed. It's kinda shitty that the guy that redesigned it so many times basically just said "oh well most of these things don't work out, not my fault."
“With Ebola being the present pandemic” lol I wonder how he’s doing now.
Oh yeah, there's absolutely no chance that hardware built into that last password device secretly could be used to steal info. There's no chance of that at all... (seriously, why would someone think that's a smart idea to plug a device into your computer with possibly unknown components like that)
TBH the cat box thing wasn't terrible, just had way too high of a funding goal, and price point. My cats have something similar that is also purpose built with a very cheap replaceable scratch pad in the bottom, it is like thick industrial cardboard tube strength material. My cats are also Maine Coons that weigh like 25 pounds and blow out normal boxes though, but these boxes are going 3 years strong now.
Chickenhound, They are very, very stiff cardboard that I can barely bend if I try, so I would wager they might make some tiny dents in it or maybe a small tooth sized hole, but I doubt they would be able to bite through it, or tear it.
it's called the "Scratch Lounge: The original Scratch Lounge" It's a very pale green color, the nice thing is that the replaceable scratch pads on both the sides and bottoms are replaceable and also reversible, so when one side gets torn up too badly, flip it over and its a new pad.
You still will get some cardboard pieces, but it's almost like cardboard dustbunnies rather than strips. I vaccum out the torn up cardboard inside the box when I vaccum so it doesn't get everywhere.
Ebola "pandemic"
Man 2020 changed us
NGL, I kinda wanna see a Juggalo cookbook for tips on how to cut necks for stuffing.
I think the 1st prototype for that last one looks much slicker. Also looked a lot smaller with a more practical shape. It's a shame so many people invest extra when they get much more money than what they need. If they had common sense they'd just deliver the promised product, then just keep the rest as profit or invest it in the next product.
thenonexistinghero Im not a business man or an economist, but why not use the rest of the money for manufacturing rather then pointlessly redesigning a perfectly functional product?
I think it's because some people scale their ambitions or goals according to the percentage or amount that they receive from the crowdfunding campaign. So, they add more features or redesign the product to make it better, yet all we really wanted was what we were promised in the beginning. :c
Why would I put my cat in what's essentially a coloured cell? Plus, "Perfect fit"? How do you know how big my cat is? And that it fits in this box? And my cat just chills in my old Amazon boxes cos it likes to tear the cardboard, so this is just gonna piss it off.
I think "Boxxy bed" is a pretty good idea. Although it's not new.
Imagine that exercise chair at your work. Sally from accounts walks past and you're grinding out while update that saucy spreadsheet? LOL
6:22 impeccable style, matching shirts and wigs!
they look like the boston bombers
I first read myidkey as "my kidney"... i would but a kidney from kickstarter.
Nice use of vaperwave in the background of a video about vaperware products. And an 8-bit Benny Hill song at the end? Love it. Keep making great videos man.
I like how even the other one is confused by the guy saying "I love you"
Look like someone LOVES their computer.
"Hi welcome to our Kickstarter"
Excellent intro to an Indiegogo campaign video
Man your delivery and editing is truly on point. If your dj'ing is half as good as your TH-cam vids, you got it made. Thanks for your hard work!
Ahhhhh thanks bud. It was actually my mash up and remixing that taught me how to edit in this way :)
Appreciate the kind words
I love how Rosie sounds when delivering that last line.
9:54 ah yes, the perfect chair to play Halo in so you can really teabag those noobs.
To be fair the paranoia you get from, somebody spiting on your food is a Horrific thought that I don't wish upon anyone.
Totally, but a person needs to temper their paranoia with reason, as what are the real chances that someone will spit in your food, even if you're being a total jerk to the staff? I've worked in fast food for years and never seen or heard that happening while I was there. Most employees just want to move on and forget angry customers and go home after work.
Just dont be an ass...
Danny has made the best use out of Macintosh Plus, what the heck.
Agsma, Just Agsma Eh?
Mattias Forelli It's the music that plays at the beginning of the gym workstation segment.
Also, can't wait for your John K. episode.
Slopes Game Room has do it again! I love these as well as his "Complete Histories". I back a lot of stuff on Kickstarter (especially board games), so it is always great to see someone dive into the seedier side of crowdfunding.
I don't know why, but I love these Kickscammer videos. They're addictively interesting.
Oh, will there be an update video on the Mansion Lord incident? That mention on the last video was actually hella intriguing.
I'm surprised you didn't ad the phone ring on here. I don't remember the exact name, but it was some kind of ring you put on you finger and was supposed to operate your phone for you. It was sent out, but people quickly learned it didn't work
Edit: here it is
www.kickstarter.com/projects/1761670738/ring-shortcut-everything
12:19 satisfying comedy from you there Daniel, that's a very funny 'ahh' at the end
Not gonna lie, that cat box looks freaking adorable.
Too bad most cats will sleep everywhere but the beds you purchase for them so it would be a waste of money regardless
You've outdone yourself Slopes. This one was hilarious
Cat Box Beds, now with Catnip are actually in stores! Bought one for a Gag at Walmart. This was my second... The one without Catnip she didn't even give a crap about, I got my face ran over in the middle of that night. (Unclear if her Soberity played a factor) Catnip Spray with Shoebox had better, cheaper results though.
'Making it rain' on a budget! I feel ya!
Funny I too first thought 'so I would need to scan every layer and surface of the burger?'
Those Flarian guys are brilliant. Their footage was hilarious and they did a great job of making it look real, when it was a deliberate attempt at going viral.
5:50
Ah, WANK, my favorite.
That nostalgic Tetris Attack music on the Saliva Scanner entry though
I was in another room when you started the Password part. So when I heard Mike Jeavons talking about the dice password thing I thought "WHAT????". Only after I came back to the room and went back did I figure out you must have just had him read that as a favor.
When the disposable mp3 player came along I really had to check which year it is, and then from which year the video itself was...
I miss Thiago Pierra Dos Santos Silva
2:55 on the middle monitor. We have the same "scanner" at work. We call it walkie-talkie :)
The cat box is genius.
The spit guy pretending to type was hilarious
That exercise computer chair is comedy gold. 😲
Building your life´s work around the fact someone spit in your coffee. Love how he shows an image of a fast food worker spitting on the food and inmediately after a picture of a biohard response team :D
"Oh, we don't assemble the boxes here, that's done in Flint, Michigan"
At 8:59 I found myself repeatingly saying no.... No.... No..... Fools got me looking like Consuela up in here!
That "chair" was The Entity.
the cat at least looks happy
If someone could do that chair for somewhere in the ballpark if $500, I think you could sell the hell out of it. Maybe make the movements look a little less "pelvicy", but there's something there.
Gotta work those abdominals somehow!
The most secure place for passwords, is in a notebook.
Crooks can't download your passwords if it is in a draw or cupboard in your bedroom. And every time you forget, you have to go get it which is a pain in the ass, which will teach you to remember more, and train your memory instead of going through life as a zombie.
The throw away MP3 player is actually a good gimmick but more of a collectible item than a serious music format.
THE MP3 one was the funniest one hands down
Fantastic video! You sound like a disappointed father when you read my name. Sorry dad.
Now go to your room!!!
are you kidding? I'd KILL for that juggalo cookbook.
Sadly, it’s not true that you must have a working prototype. I made a point to look up Kickstarter’s actual rules after Kickstarter kicked back my report about a campaign. Turns out the rules explicitly state that you can crowdfund to create a prototype, as long as you don’t mislead backers about the status of your prototype.
Ali at 4:40 dead ass looks like a serial killer. Has that look like he’s deciding where to jab the blade
New Slope to listen to while traversing Hope County :D
I can't help but think of Froggy when I hear the background music during the cat box thing.
That video of the exercise chair is somehow hypnotic...
Oh wow I was so excited when John K was just mentioned out of the blue. ^^ Can't wait for that episode!
Wow, MikeJ makes one hell of an Ashens impression.
2:53 WHAT is that guy doing with his hands? He's certainly not typing! That looks hilarious!
EDIT: I'm glad you pointed it out in the vid! What was he thinking?
5:31 Well done, you’ve made an MP3 player...
nice to see a new video so early for a change! good work selectah :)
The only slightly useful one is the BoxyBed.
Why? Yes, a normal box would work just fine, but cats WOULD TOTALLY destroy a box in days if they can between scratching, laying, trying to find that perfect kitty sleeping spot and rubbing their body over it. The material seemed more than cleaning-friendly, might be a bit static after a while though so I'm not sure. But its more than valid, believe it or not.
The joke? Just buy a plastic box, that would be even cheaper. Add a scratching board below if ya want.
Still really crazy and kind of scammy, tbh. It's a silly box! :P Just buy a storage box in Walmart or something, add a pillowcase and catnip...I'm damn sure it would be cheaper than that kickstarter LOL
Digging the chiptune version of "Yakety Sax".
Hey man, that Boxy Bed is made of solid reinforced cardboardium alloy, it's worth millions!