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From: Kickstarter HQ <no-replygkickstarter.com> To: jeevacationgginail.com Subject: Projects We Love: Bot Talk Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2012 19:02:21 +0000 Having trouble viewing this email? View it online instead ;;,This Week on Kickstarter AUGUST 30, 2012 This week's projects are doing double duty: a set of cute magnets that are also word puzzles, an app that can make both music and robots, and an audio storytelling series that inspires beautiful animation. Authorized DEVO Synthesizer and Join the Devolutionary army Robot Maker App , DEVOBOTS DevoBots is a two-in-one app that serves as both music synthesizer and digital robot assembly kit — all inspired by cult fave New Wavers: DEVO! Users can build dozens of custom Devo-inspired robots, then mix and record music using original, previously unreleased material from the band themselves. And you thought legos were cool. EXPLORE THIS PROJECT Authorized DEVO Synthesizer and Robot Maker App , DEVOBOTS by Remo Camerota litCategory Product Design R_ocation Los Angeles. CA EFTA01146737 RGLYPHiTS: Magnetic Pictures with Lettuce begin Linguistic Potential Glyphits are a set of adorable, hand-drawn refrigerator magnets featuring images and words that you can arrange to make unique messages and puzzles. You can use them for how they look ("ewe!") or how they sound ("you!"), or combine both for even more fanciful wordplay. For example, the letter "r with a picture of an eel becomes "feel." As in, "we feel like this is going to be really fun!" GLYPHITS: Magnetic Pictures with Linguistic EXPLORE THIS PROJECT Potential by Celia Hoffman litCategory Board & Card Games Plocation Los Angeles. CA W,StoryCorps' Animation Special History in the making A few years ago, the national storytelling project StoryCorps (you may know them from their weekly spot on NPR's Morning Edition) began animating their archive of recorded oral histories, transforming the memories of everyday folk into imaginative, colorful films. Their first half-hour special will feature six of these cartoon shorts, woven together to form the narrative of a single life — from birth, to StoryCorps' Animation Special work and love, to recollections on a life well by StoryCorps spent. Pro tip: Bring a tissue. P ACategory Animation EXPLORE THIS PROJECT g _ocation Brooklyn, NY Love these projects too? Share the newsletter with your friends! F, Share on r Share on Not interested in receiving the newsletter? ou can unsubscribe here: rRUnsubscribe EFTA01146738  Copyright 2012 Kickstarter Inc. Kickstarter Inc. - 155 Rivington Street, New York, NY 10002. EFTA01146739