The popular crowd funding website Kickstarter is home to entrepreneurs, inventors, and conceptual thinkers worldwide. It harnesses the Internet's amazing networking powers, linking the people who have ideas with the people who have the cash to make them happen.
Users post information about their projects and themselves along with short videos in order to attract backers, the people who will fund their project. The project starters input a cash goal and are given a deadline; if they receive enough backing within their time-line, they've hit the jackpot. So have the consumers, who get to enjoy a new, innovative product.
Here are 15 Design Kickstarter Projects Worth Funding. Become a backer yourself or to just marvel at the creativity invested in these projects that range from a bike-powered personal shelter, to a font specially created for children and teachers, to bee-friendly beehives.
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