First Serve: The Hottest Kickstarter Campaigns, 06/06/13
It's June. It's Friday. Get pumped.
Colfax Bags
Price: $229+
Status: $32,667 of $80,000 goal
Estimated delivery: December 2014
Like having a mobile power plant strapped to your back, these handsome packs are integrated with their very own low-profile rechargeable battery, so you can juice whatever gadgets are inside on-the-go to 100 percent. And if you're looking for even more, the PHD model also comes with a 500GB wireless external hard drive to retrieve documents, music, photos, and movies on-demand.
RydeSafe Reflective Buttons
Price: $5+
Status: $2,385 of $5,250 goal
Estimated delivery: August 2014
Getting hit by a car on your ride home from a great night out can really put a damper on things. Thankfully, RydeSafe is making rad safety buttons, fashioned from engineering-grade reflective film, to pin on your bag, jacket, pant cuff, or anywhere else you want to be seen.
Shot Stats Challenger
Price: $150
Status: $71,661 of $75,000 goal
Estimated delivery: January 2015
Just in time to fine-tune your summer tennis game, this techy racquet dampener does a whole lot more than calm vibrations. It'll give you data on your swing speed, number and varieties of stroke (forehand vs. backhand vs. serve, etc.), amount of spin, and where on the strings you tend to hit the ball. And it's a hell of a lot cheaper than lessons from your country club tennis pro.
Homey
Price: $312
Status: $222,614
Estimated delivery: June 2015
The Homey is basically a standalone Siri to control all your smarthome devices. Whether you want to queue up some tunes when you get home, boot up your sweet new A/C unit, or even dim the lights, just say so to this little orb-shaped dude and you're in business. Buttons are in the past, baby!
The Klax Multitool
Price: $75
Status: $28,912 of $15,000 goal—FUNDED
Estimated delivery: September 2014
For those all-too-frequent situations in which you're jonesing for an axe, this pocket-sized multi-tool transforms into one when strapped to any old stick. Oh, and it can also be used as a hammer, wrench, drive socket, carabiner, ruler, and bottle opener. [More...]
Joe McGauley is a senior editor at Supercompressor, and woefully axless at the moment.