Kickstarter allows everyone to be an investor or benefactor, putting a little money in to help get a new product manufactured or an art concept made. Backers of products get either one for themselves or, for smaller amounts, a thank-you and usually some perk like a T-shirt.
Thousands of projects have been posted to Kickstarter, but not every idea is a great one. (A study by blogger Jeanne Pi found that only 39 percent of tech ideas succeed.) Kickstarter recently started posting success and failure data on its projects. We dug through and compiled this list of five technology ideas that simply didn’t make it.
Raised: $50 of $40,000
This is one of those ideas that makes you say either "coolest thing ever" or "This man is crazy." Or both. The plan was for a motorcycle, controlled from the chariot (yes, chariot) it would draw. Sam Hicks doesn’t say how the controls would be constructed, or whether the whole idea could ever be legal. And he seemed to imply that he was making only one, for himself.
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