Kickstarter: cooler bag received $ 10.6 million, breaking the record of hours Pebble
The leadership of Pebble smartwatch, as a funding champion on the Kickstarter crowdfunding platform, has come to an end. And overthrew them from this position cooler. Yes, the usual cooler bag. Or rather, not at all ordinary, but with a high-tech-bias.
Coolest Cooler not only keeps food and drinks in the cold, but also crushes ice like a blender, which guarantees you always a cool cocktail on a hike in nature, works as a speaker system with a Bluetouth interface and charges all your mobile devices via USB. And this is not all that he can. ')
It is also equipped with LED lighting and a mass of necessary and useful when going out of town or into a park of things - a cutting board, bottle opener and other useful equipment (See the Full List below).
All this splendor in attractive orange plastic has collected at Kickstarter from the beginning of the round of financing 10,601,265 dollars at the moment, more than 200 times higher than the stated target amount of $ 50,000. The fundraising campaign has not yet been completed - more than two days ahead and it is possible that the cooler will collect a total of more than 11 million dollars.
Thus, the Coolest Cooler convincingly broke the record of iOS and Android-compatible Pebble watches, unsurpassed since 2012, with a collected amount of 10,266,845 dollars.
A few words about the author of the project. His name is Ryan Grepper, he is from Portland and to this success was a long 10 years.
“Ten years ago, I made a blender from a waste grinder and put an old tape recorder in the fridge,” Grepper recalls.
And you see how it all turned out.
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