Entries filed under “Consumer Goods”

Over at Fast Company, Zak Stone writes that Brewery Inc. in Houston is looking to support and grow new “nano-breweries.”

We cultivate these nano-breweries through business workshops, networking events, co-marketing, investor pitches, and co-working until they are fully ready to launch their own brewery,” reads the Brewery Incubator’s Kickstarter. The project is actually an incubator within a more established incubator, Kitchen Inc., which provides food entrepreneurs with affordable commercial kitchen space and a café to sell their wares.

According to Stone, Brewery Inc. has six brewers in a space that could fit 10. A successful Kickstarter campaign has just completed to outfit the facility for training microbrewers on macro production. Read the Full Story.

A new Kickstarter campaign intends to produce a documentary about historical visionaries that paved the way to modern science fiction. Cities in the Sky: Science Fiction’s Forgotten Visionaries is currently in preproduction with their funding campaign running through February 5, 2013.

Writers like Verne and Wells get a lot of attention and they were no doubt great minds and visionaries, but a shocking number of other creative men and women stand largely unknown or forgotten; we deeply hope that we can help play a role in changing this situation!

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Over at New Scientist, Niall Firth writes that the new Oculus Rift gaming headset maybe the device that finally brings convincing Virtual Reality to the home.

In the demo at CES, I walk around the medieval scene using Xbox controllers, able to look all around me just by turning my head. The only downside is a slight feeling of sea-sickness if you move too quickly, something I experience as I try to turn on my heels and move quickly off in a different direction. But the exhilarating feeling it provides is undeniable. Virtual reality might be on its way back, after all.

The Oculus Rift began as a Kickstarter project that has garnered nearly $2.5 Million dollars in pledges. Read the Full Story.