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> but they won't provide all those things for 100k

they raised 135k in a day. by the end of the kickstarter they will likely have raised 1-2 million.

i think their plan is to ship with a handful of sensors and apps but have a platform for others to develop and share on easily. seems like a pretty good way to do it if you ask me. the platform will be key though, and i guess we'll find out more about that in the coming months.

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Agree with your basic point, but they won't raise more than ~650k because they've set maximums on all of the (normal) tiers. I think this is actually a great thing as there have been a number of kickstarters that have been victims of their own success because they've been oversubscribed beyond what can actually be delivered in a realistic timeframe. IMO most kickstarters that aren't pure digital distribution should have a limit of ~3x their funding level.

Granted, with the right set of sensors and base app they could make it easy to create lots of apps. I suppose all this is available today (RFID tags, motion sensors and so on), but putting them together requires some thinking. If the invention part can be moved into software, lots of apps could follow.

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