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TidyTilt for iPhone 4/4S and iPhone 5

Trendy iPhone users, listen up!

Every time you receive an urgent call, like from your Mom or from a random job interview, do you always find yourself frustrated because you see your earphones all crumpled up and cluttered? How about when you get the urge to listen to music, do you find yourself irritated because you have to untangle your earphones?

My fellow iPhone user, rejoice now for all your worries will soon be gone! With the use of TidyTilt, you never have to worry about all these problems any more.

TidyTilt is the super minimal ear bud cord wrap, multi-position kickstand and mount for your iPhone 4/4S and iPhone 5.

You can use TidyTilt for your day-to-day life! Check out its multitude of functions in this video here!

    With its two-component system, a minimal metal frame to be placed at the back of your device, and a folding rear panel to help you keep your earphones in place, TidyTilt does tidies your indispensable accessory and tilts your user experience to a whole new level.

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SmartDeco Smartset

Loyal FundedGrads Followers! Tired of expensive furniture that’s hard to assemble? Us too. The guys over at SmartDeco have designed an innovative way to get furnished. SmartSet is a set of furniture (Dresser/Bookcase + Desk + Stand) made of 100% recyclable Forest Stewardship Council certified cardboard. This high grade cardboard is the same carboard that's used to ship heavy car parts, so  it's incredibly strong and durable. The best part of this product is that it requires no tools to assemble! Just fold it up and it's ready to go!!

The colors come in smartwhite (as shown below) and Kraft. For those of you with the inner artist, we recommend using the smartwhite color as a base, allowing you to draw/paint/marker your very own own creative designs directly on the smartdeco set. 

For more info on this product visit FundedGrads site: http://www.fundedgrads.com/products/smartdeco-smartset

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Snooze: The iPhone Alarm Dock

I’m sure plenty of us iPhone owners deal with this problem every morning when the alarm goes off. It’s too early, dark, you are tired and you have to somehow find your phone and hope that you tap the snooze button and not turn it off and be late to work - once again.

That is why the Snooze iPhone Alarm Dock was born, to solve this issue and many more. This product works as a bedside iPhone dock that has a big “Snooze” button that you can tap easily with your hand while you try to wake up, literally.

As explained by one of the founders, “Snooze lets you easily quiet your alarm or incoming phone calls. Some call snoozing your alarm lazy, but we like to think of it as keeping the dream alive”. They have also created a “weave” cable which is 5-foot in length (2 feet longer than the Apple cable). You can buy them together for $39.99 or separate as well.

Specifications: • Rubber bar functions as a slap-happy snooze button • Built-in cord keeps the cable from falling behind your nightstand • Non-slip silicone bottom stays put and protects your furniture • Removable insert to accommodate iPhone Bumper case* • Crafted in the USA out of solid, FSC-certified Maple

Check it out here and HAPPY SNOOZING to all!

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MoH Band – Memory On Hand

Loyal FundedGrads Followers!

We all know how important our flash drives are. They are small, convenient, and allow us to carry our data around as we need it.  We also know, at the most in-opportunistic time, they like to disappear from us, causing us to scramble around to find them again.  Our friends at Memory On Hand have designed a successfully crowdfunded solution to help us all out, and spare us the mental breakdown of losing our files. 

Memories on Hand is a USB Flash Drive Wristband allowing you to store your digital files and safely clip the band to your wrist, backpack, keychain or any place you want for safe keeping. Their vast assortment of vivid colors ensures that the flash drive is highly visible and easily recognizable. 

With Memory On Hand, you’ll not only look trendy with this tech bracelet, you’ll also never lose your flash drive again! Great job to Memory On Hand for this very creative solution, and saving us all the headache of losing our flash drives!

The MoH bands are currently 23% OFF on our site. Click HERE to check it out!

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Great News! We are going LIVE!

Hey FundedGrads Followers! We are excited to make the official announcement of our launch! We will be going live this Thursday, January 31st after working hard to make sure you get the best crowdfunded products! We have partnered with great people and are looking forward to showing you their products and how they brought their ideas to life! On top of our regular priced items, we are also happy to offer Flash Sales, which are products at a discounted price and only available for a short period of time (3 days).  Definitely great deals you won't want to miss! Check out below some of the 50+ products that we have on our store and ready for Thursday!!   Hidden Bluetooth Radio by John VDN + Victor Santa Maria

WineHive Wine Rack by John Paulick

Snooze by Distil Union

Camera CapBuckle by Mark Stevenson

  The FundedGrads Team, Jennifer & Jonathan (Co-Founders)

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Soma - a sleek and all-natural water filter!

Looking for a beautiful and minimalistic water filter? Check out Soma, a beautiful glass carafe and 100% compostable water filter.

Soma has a convenient subscription based service that delivers a brand new filter to your door every two months, solving the problem of forgetting to change them or driving to the store to get one!!!

Unlike most water filters made out of plastic, Soma is completely organic and made out of burnt coconut shells. This product was designed by David Breeman, one of the top water filtration experts and the water formula creator for Starbucks, Peets, and other global brands!

They just launched on Kickstarter and are looking to raise $100,000. By pledging $45 or more you can get the Soma glass garafe plus a 6 month filter subscription. This includes 3 filters each one delivered to your door every two months ($100+ value).

Check out their Kickstarter project here!

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Design by Jean-Paul Francisco 

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Kinetic Creatures are a set of three, mechanical cardboard animal sculptures that you can build yourself. We fell in love with the project when it launched this past June — just look how cute the lil guys are! — and are excited to see the finalized kits are already being packaged and shipped out to backers. Congrats to the team! We can’t wait to build ourselves a pet Office Robot Giraffe. (We’re brainstorming names, suggestions welcome.)

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At Kickstarter HQ, we’re lucky to get to look at tons of amazing projects every day. So it should be no surprise that we can’t help but constantly back projects!

It’s exciting to see creators fulfill and send out their rewards, so like other backers all around the world, we’re thrilled when we open up these packages we get in the mail. 

Here are some projects that have fulfilled recently, along with the cool rewards they’ve sent out.

The Election Day Advent Calendar

T-shirt from Wondering Around Wandering

Postcard from +Pool: A Floating Pool in the River For Everyone

Howler: A Magazine About Soccer

Postcard from MATTER

The Mason Jar Cocktail Shaker

Bowl with feet from The Efeet Collection-Taking a Stand Against Boring Dishware!

Dye kit from Print on Fabric Using Sunlight: The Lumi Process

Atheist Shoes

Temporary tattoos from Philosophy Posters

Crystal Bacon

Button from HAVE GLOVE, WILL TRAVEL: The Bill “Spaceman” Lee Movie

Miniatures from Dwarven Adventurers Box Set

And, Philosophy Posters, Hidden Radios, and posters from Wondering Around Wandering. 

If you missed them, here are some other projects that have made news about fulfillment or held events in the real world recently: Projects at the NY Art Book Fair, Trade School New York opening, The Illuminator at Brooklyn’s Barclays Center, Special Effect incoming, Rabbit Island’s debut exhibition, Free Art Machine’s free art day, Bicycle Astronomy Star Party, Gears premiere, Singular Beauty ships, Tomorrow magazine arrives, Rachel Mae’s thank you cards, The Selling posters and severed heads, Songs of the Maniac shipped, and Feminist Playing Cards in packages. Whew!   

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Such a great idea!!!

POSTICK’s are adhesive labels that convert things (all kinds of things!) into postcards. You may already know this because you were a backer of creator Tatjana’s adorable Kickstarter project for them. If you were not a backer, you may wish you were one after checking the awesome photos, above, of her work in progress. We like the “Make Today Ridiculously Amazing!” one best of all.

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A Robocop statue for Detroit, in progress. According to a recent project update, some crucial final pieces were just completed. The hands, above, will be 3D scanned, enlarged, and milled from foam, then shipped to Venus Bronze Works in Detroit for molding and pouring. Woah.

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Cryptrade CRXiVault

Loyal FundedGrads Followers!

In the digital age, where privacy is an increasingly growing concern, Cryptrade has taken the next step in digital security! This amazing Cryptrade CRXiVault memory stick is the first lockable and encrypted USB stick on the consumer market!

The Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) on this device has been honorably approved by National Security Agency for TOP SECRET level data. Yes, TOP SECRET… The DoD is probably using devices like this! WHOA! 

Whether you’re seriously paranoid, or just have personally sensitive information (like the rest of us), the Cryptrade offers 256-bit AES encryption for your data files.

This storage device cleverly encrypts and decrypts the data on your memory stick based on a mechanical locking combination. An astounding 14,348,907 possible combinations makes guessing your combination simply impossible.

Not only does the Cryptrade CRXiVault have world class security, its inspired design is the perfect blend between bold form and elegant function. Available in 4GB, 8GB and 16GB!

  We all have files that contain sensitive personal information, and rightfully so, we need to ensure our sensitive information stays personal.

Hats off to the forward-thinkers at Cryptrade and their genius CRXiVault mechanical lock and encryption solution! A special cheers to all those who aided in successfully crowdfunding this amazing product!

Additional info on Cryptrade CRXiVault:

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The Martian Watches - A Watch You Can Talk To Through Your Smartphone

Followers!! Check out this amazing and new Kickstarter campaign. It's already made the news around and it's giving the Pebble Watch and the MetaWatch Strata a run for their money.

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OUYA Finished As Second Largest Kickstarter Project With $8.6M Raised

Wow, what a month it's been for  the game console OUYA. This little box is only $99 and it has already picked up around $20,000 in pre-sales.

The OUYA will be available to any developer for hacking and is going to have a bunch of games that anybody can play for free.

Check out their Kickstarter video below!

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The growing number of mobile-related projects funded on Kickstarter is fantastic for the industry. While Pebble got all the press and Chameleon all the buzz, ChargeCard has been slowly adding backers — 3600+ and counting, with over $104,000 pledged — for its wallet-sized iPhone and Android...

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Any game fanatics out there? Meet Oculus, the first virtual reality headset for video games! Check out their Kickstarter project here!

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Geode - A Wallet and iPhone Case

Loyal FundedGrads followers, say goodbye to having a bulky wallet and running out of space for all your cards. Meet Geode from iCache, the first digital wallet that lets you store all of your credits cards, debit cards, and even loyalty cards into one. Geode works for iPhone 4 and 4S only and comes with a free Geode App that lets you manage all your accounts.

For $199, you will get everything you need to start using your card. In the package, you will find: The Geode (iPhone case), The GeoCard, The Geode Card Reader, a micro-usb cable for charging and a Quickstart Guide.

Geode comes in for different colors: black with mikado yellow, clover green with white, charged pink with white, and french lilac with white.

If you are wondering what would happen to your financial information if you "lose" your iPhone, wonder no more. Only registered fingerprints can access your digital wallet thanks to the built-in biometric security reader. 

Geode was successfully crowdfunded on Kickstarter on April 21, 2012. They raised $352,918 and had over 1,700 backers!! Congrats to iCache on making Geode a reality!!!