Pebble, a Californian design company, made this beautiful smart watch. They then sold 85,000 of them on Kickstarter (a site which crowd funds innovation) giving them $10M of capital to start production without giving away any of the business.
We really admire this new model of crowd funding (find out more about it here ) and hope Pebble deliver. We have our own ideas we want to put out to the community – one of them even features an ex Star Wars cast member – but people need to see crowdfunding working to make that happen.