Death Countdown Clocks, Rubber Band Warfare: Kickstarter Cheat Sheet 10/4/13

It's Friday, dammit. Treat yourself to our rundown of the hottest Kickstarter campaigns from the past week.

Rubber Band Machine Gun
Price: $49
Status: $3,750 of $10,000 goal
Estimated delivery: February 2014
Prepare for your inner 12-year-old to wet himself. This AA battery-powered, rapid-fire rubber band machine gun shoots 800 rounds per minute. That is all.

Polar Pens
Price: $35+
Status: $594,000 of $13,500 goal — FUNDED
Estimated delivery: February 2014
Boring phone calls be damned. These modular metallic stylus-pens are actually made up of cylindrical magnets surrounding an ink cartridge, that when taken apart transform into a hypnotizing desk toy.

Mipwr Dynamo
Price: $25
Status: $3,734 of $78,00 goal
Estimated delivery: February 2014
Imagine you're out and about with a dead phone and no access to a phone charger or back-up battery. If you had this mechanized case you could simply pull out the built-in crank and pump it to juice up power. Considering one minute of work only gets you about 30 seconds of talk time it's not going to bring you back to 100% very quickly, but in an emergency this thing could save your butt.

Split Earbuds
Price: $155
Status: $23,742 of $435,000 goal
Estimated delivery: April 2014
Hate the daily torture that is untangling your earbuds? Or getting trapped in their cords at the gym? These new fully wireless versions have on-board memory chips that you load up with your music. And you don't even have to touch them to change the track or volume, because they're controlled by clenching your jaw in specific patterns. For real.

Tikker
Price: $39
Status: $3,452 of $25,000
Estimated delivery: April 2014
Think you would live differently if your watch was counting down to the day you're going to die? Strap on one of these and find out. It arrives with a questionnaire that roughly determines how much longer you'll be kickin', and has you program the watch accordingly, so every time you check the time you also get the chance to ruin your mood.