Robotics YouTuber Simone Giertz quadrupled her fundraising goal within hours on the crowdfunding website.
Simone Giertz, YouTuber and creator of “Sh*tty Robots“, has launched a Kickstarter to fund a self-improvement calendar product.
The Every Day Calendar, made from circuit board, tracks good habits over the span of a year with LED lights.
The user simply touches each day of the calendar when a daily task, such as meditation, is completed, and the calendar will save the person’s progress.
On the Kickstarter page, Giertz said: “Take it from someone who’s never managed to keep a New Year’s resolution: making commitments is easy. Keeping them is what is hard.
“The Every Day Calendar has a non-volatile memory, so even if it loses power or if your turn it off, it’ll remember what days were lit up. I keep my habits, I get to tap that day to light it up. It’s like getting a gold star sticker, but way less sticky.
“The Every Day Calendar is 0% internet connected, so no apps, WiFi, bluetooth or computer programs are needed to set it up. Just plug it into the wall and you’re ready to go.”
The Swedish inventor, who created a video channel for comic robots that don’t always work as expected, has more than one million subscribers on YouTube.
She gained recognition online for her unusual inventions, including an alarm clock that slaps her awake with a mannequin hand.
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Though Giertz has created many technological inventions throughout her career, this calendar will be the first of her inventions that is available to buy.
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Within seven hours, Giertz’s crowdfunding page had raised more than 170,000 dollars (around £130,000) of its original 35,000 dollar (around £26,000) fundraising goal.
The Every Day Calendar costs 300 dollars (around £230) for Kickstarter backers.
It is estimated that the product will be delivered by December 2019.
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NEW DELHI (AP) — A 24-year-old American YouTuber who was arrested after visiting an off-limits island in the Indian Ocean with hopes of establishing contact with a reclusive tribe was further detained in custody on Thursday.
Mykhailo Viktorovych Polyakov will next appear before a local court in Port Blair -- the capital of India's Andaman and Nicobar Islands -- on April 29, police said.
Polyakov, from Scottsdale, Arizona, was arrested on March 31, two days after he set foot on the restricted territory of North Sentinel Island in a bid to meet people from the reclusive Sentinelese tribe.
He left a can of Diet Coke and a coconut as offering for the tribe this time after he failed to contact the Sentinelese. He shot a video of the island on his camera and collected some sand samples before returning to his boat.
“It may be claimed to be an adventure trip, but the fact is that there has been a violation of Indian laws. Outsiders meeting Sentinelese could endanger the tribe’s survival,” said a senior police officer, requesting anonymity as he isn’t authorized to speak about the case under investigation.
Polyakov is suspected of violating Indian laws that carry a possible sentence of up to five years in prison and a fine.
Visitors are banned from traveling within 3 miles (5 kilometers) of North Sentinel Island, whose population has been isolated from the rest of the world for thousands of years. The inhabitants use spears and bows and arrows to hunt the animals that roam the small, heavily forested island. Deeply suspicious of outsiders, they attack anyone who lands onto their beaches.
In 2018, an American missionary who landed illegally on the beach was killed by North Sentinelese Islanders who apparently shot him with arrows and then buried his body on the beach. In 2006, the Sentinelese killed two fishermen who had accidentally landed on the shore.
An official from the U.S. consulate visited Polyakov in jail earlier this week. “We take our commitment to assist U.S. citizens abroad seriously and are monitoring the situation,” the U.S. Embassy in New Delhi said in a statement, while declining to divulge further details due to privacy considerations.
Police said Polyakov had conducted detailed research on sea conditions, tides and accessibility to the island before starting his journey. He stayed on the beach for about an hour, blowing a whistle to attract attention but got no response from the islanders.
On his return he was spotted by local fishermen, who informed the authorities and Polyakov was arrested in Port Blair, an archipelago nearly 750 miles (1,207 kilometers) east of India’s mainland.
FILE – Clouds hang over the North Sentinel Island, in India's southeastern Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Nov. 14, 2005. (AP Photo/Gautam Singh, File)
