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Crowdfunding Help Comes in Many Sizes and Platforms Crowdfunding in a Crowded Place (photo courtesy of Pablo by Buffer) Just like the app market, the major crowdfunding platforms are over-saturated. Though, c rowdfunding has changed the way were invest and micro-investing is the new stock certificate, crowdfunding today does have its issues - Promotion,  Fraud , Order fulfillment to name a few.  Is traditional crowdfunding broken? Some think so. We list some alternatives or some different ways to go about funding your project. We talk with Sjoerd Geurts of Gambitious , who has an investment portal for Indie gamer developers, Nick Tommarello of WeFunder who does equity crowdfunding, Josh Lifton of Crowd Supply who manages development to fulfillment platform and lastly DMM-make who helps promote curated products via standard crowdfunding platforms and a provides a post-crowdfunding fulfillment store. These new platforms and their founders are different - humble, focu...

With Human Emotion Recognition AI, MJI's Tapia Robot Can Now Understand Your Emotion Tapia Integrates Human Emotion (photo courtesy of MJI) Japanese robot maker, MJI , announces that they integrates human emotion recognition AI into their communication robot Tapia . MJI adopted Smartmedical's Empath, a vocal emotion recognition technology utilized in various business fields such as mental health, call centers, and entertainment. With Empath, Tapia can understand human emotion through dialogue with users: joy, calm, sorrow, anger, and vigor.

SHIKUMI DESIGN's Launches a Motion Music Composer Called KAGURA KAGURA Screen (courtesy of SHIKUMI DESIGN) No musical talent? At the last  J-POP SUMMIT Festival at Fort Mason in San Francisco, we found a unique musical composer called KAGURA (KA-GU-RA) that does need knowledge of a major or a minor chord. KAGURA is a motion interface for musical sounds where one uses the motion of the body to initiate sounds. Sounds can be defined in many ways. The demo at J-POP SUMMIT was percussion or drums but can be defined with many different instruments and instruments you can import through. You can also use KAGURA if you know music as well. With a Digital Audio Workstation(DAW) and KAGURA and a mixer an interesting mix of dance and music can be created.  The key technology for the KAGURA motion interface either by webcam or Intel's RealSense technology which uses three cameras - an HD camera, IR camera and Laser projector. SHIKUMI DESIGN in partnership with DMM-make has an act...