{"id":36318,"date":"2012-04-19T10:51:33","date_gmt":"2012-04-19T08:51:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=36318"},"modified":"2012-04-26T11:41:19","modified_gmt":"2012-04-26T09:41:19","slug":"pebble-smartwatch-breaks-kickstarter-records","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/hardware\/36318-pebble-smartwatch-breaks-kickstarter-records","title":{"rendered":"Pebble smartwatch breaks Kickstarter records"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Pebble ePaper smartwatch has surpassed its initial fundraising target of $100,000 on <a title=\"Kickstarter\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/422394-Kickstarter\">Kickstarter<\/a> in spectacular fashion, raising over $4.9 million and breaking all previous records.<\/p>\n<p>Allerta, the company behind the idea, opened the Kickstarter page a week ago to try and amass funding for the project.<\/p>\n<p>Kickstarter is a fundraising initiative where companies can promote their ideas in the hopes of receiving funding from the public via donations.<\/p>\n<p>The watch will be compatible with <a title=\"iOS 5\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/342717-Apple-inc\">iOS 5<\/a> and <a title=\"Android Mobile Oerating System\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/221979-Google-Android\">Android<\/a> 2.3 or higher. It features a 1.26 inch 144 x 168 pixel black and white backlit ePaper display. Also present is Bluetooth 2.1, four control buttons, a vibrating motor, and a three-axis accelerometer.<\/p>\n<p>Pebble will be able to receive notifications for calls, e-mails and messages. It can also control music from <a title=\"Spotify\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/367644-Spotify\">Spotify<\/a>, <a title=\"iTunes\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/384017-iTunes\">iTunes<\/a> and <a title=\"Pandora\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/422398-Pandora\">Pandora<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Developers can also put together their own apps using the Pebble SDK.<\/p>\n<p>Pre-order pricing is currently $115, with deliveries expected sometime in September 2012. The final retail price for the watch will be $150.<\/p>\n<h5>Read the full story at: <a title=\"Boy Genius Report news site\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bgr.com\/2012\/04\/17\/pebble-smartwatch-raises-a-record-3-6-million-through-kickstarter-video\/\" target=\"_blank\">Boy Genius Report<\/a>.<\/h5>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Related Articles<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Wasteland 2 dev calls on Kickstarter successes to give something back\" href=\"..\/news\/34629-wasteland-2-dev-calls-on-kickstarter-successes-to-give-something-back.html\">Wasteland 2 dev calls on Kickstarter successes to give something back<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Double Fine success gives significant boost to other Kickstarter projects\" href=\"..\/news\/35210-double-fine-success-gives-significant-boost-to-other-kickstarter-projects.html\">Double Fine success gives significant boost to other Kickstarter projects<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Obsidian wants to co-develop Wasteland 2\" href=\"..\/news\/35179-obsidian-wants-to-co-develop-wasteland-2.html\">Obsidian wants to co-develop Wasteland 2<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Wasteland 2\u2032s \u201csocial\u201d features are not \u201ccasual\u201d features\" href=\"..\/news\/34777-wasteland-2s-social-features-are-not-casual-features.html\">Wasteland 2\u2032s \u201csocial\u201d features are not \u201ccasual\u201d features<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Schafer: Kickstarter not a threat to publishers yet\" href=\"..\/news\/34741-schafer-kickstarter-not-a-threat-to-publishers-yet.html\">Schafer: Kickstarter not a threat to publishers yet<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Pebble ePaper smartwatch has surpassed its initial fundraising target of $100,000 on Kickstarter in spectacular fashion<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":169,"featured_media":36319,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[31,947,1309,2366,3638,3637],"class_list":["post-36318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hardware","tag-active","tag-android","tag-itunes","tag-kickstarter","tag-pandora","tag-spotify"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36318","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/169"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36318"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36318\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36321,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36318\/revisions\/36321"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}