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Entertainment
Daniel Wu, Sean Chen develop sci-fi graphic novel ‘Evermind’
“American Born Chinese” star Daniel Wu and veteran Marvel and DC artist Sean Chen have teamed up to create “Evermind,” a new sci-fi graphic ...
Carl Samson
Wuxia comic studio launches Kickstarter for sequel to wildly successful series debut
After a best-selling Kickstarter launch in 2020, Immortal, the world’s first studio dedicated to creating an epic interconnected Wuxia story...
Editorial Staff
Business
How a Singaporean Woman Built a $1.8 Million Apparel Brand by 24
Singaporean Mandy Chan became her own boss to have full autonomy over her life at age 19. Today, the 24-year-old entrepreneur behind a lifes...
Ryan General
New ‘Wuxia’ Studio Unveils Their First Kung-Fu Comic Series Led By a Chinese American Heroine
A new entertainment studio that focuses on authentic martial arts culture has unveiled their first comic book series: “The Adept”. “Th...
News
Boba Barista Creates Eco-Friendly Boba Bottle You Can Take With You Anywhere
Galina Lang has worked for three years as a part-time boba barista while studying marketing at a Bay Area university when she began to notic...
Jin Hyun
Misc
The Best Gift This Year is Definitely This Butt-Shaped Pillow
Has this ever happened to you? You’re just living life, minding your own business, when –suddenly — you remember you haven...
Uncategorized
Teacher Sees Lack of Asian American Authors in Children’s Books, Finds Genius Solution
Like a real-life Pepper Zhang, Angel Halo Chang celebrates her eccentricity. As a child, she preferred playing with a large cardboard box in...
Heather Johnson Yu
Asia
Meet the Dad Who Taught His Daughter to Be Proud of Being Chinese
It’s hard to be a dad, especially when your own daughter wants to be someone else. Meet Jerry Zhang. Lawyer and father to daughters Madison ...
Adly Choi
Asian American Launches Bra Startup to Help Women with Small Breasts
A new startup has found a solution for women with smaller breasts who struggle to find the perfect bra to fit them. Pepper, a new bra compan...
The World’s Smallest 360-Degree Camera for Android Phones Costs Only $150
LyfieEye is a unique camera that can take spherical 360-degree photos and videos using Android smartphones. “By tapping your smartphone̵...
Khier Casino
Columbia Student Forms K-POP Boy Band With No Koreans in Sight
Bora Kim, an “interdisciplinary artist and sociologist from Seoul, Korea,” is attempting the impossible: to get her non-Korean boy band crea...
Technology
This Magical Phone Case Charges Your Phone While It Floats in the Air
A Canada-based tech startup is unleashing a unique way to wirelessly charge mobile devices: by making them float in the air while filling up...
Photographer Dad Features Daughters in Terrifying Book of Children’s Nightmares on Kickstarter
When parents photograph their children they usually strive to make their kids look as angelic as possible in a beautiful place set among the...
Laura Dang
A New Invention on Kickstarter Will Help Reverse the Damage Texting Does To Our Posture
With all the computer coding and phone texting people do these days it’s easy to see why our grandparents were so nitpicky about having good...
He Discovered Kickstarter When He Was a Sophomore at UCLA — Now He’s Making a Fortune
Crowdfunding has become major trend in the last couple years with the advent of popular sites like Kickstarter and Indiegogo. In 2014, crowd...
Benny Luo
Japanese Startup Creates Incredible Floating Bonzai Plant
Floating bonsai trees are the perfect touch to your zen home. Japanese entrepreneurs Hikaru Hoshi and Masanori Imayoshi decided it was time ...
Jacob Wagner
Revolutionary Alarm Clock Has The Best Way to Get You Out of Bed in the Morning
Know someone who is guilty of hitting the snooze button every morning when they should be getting on with their life? Well here is the perfe...
Man Raises $220,000 to Make Music For Cats
Here’s one video you absolutely have to watch to believe: One man has embarked on his life mission to create music for cats. David Teie, a ...
Futuristic Laser Razor Banned from Kickstarter After Raising $4 Million
A Kickstarter campaign for a laser razor that raised over $4 million in funding was cancelled because it does not exist in a working form. ...
Ridiculous Invention Allows You to Take the Perfect Selfie With Your Dog
Taking the perfect selfie with a dog can be a challenge. Dogs squirm, look the other way, or simply just won’t do anything at all R...
Kickstarter Campaign Fails to Deliver on Time, CEO Flies 7,500 Miles to Make It Up
Back in September, Waqas Ali, the founder of Markhor, launched a Kickstarter campaign to bring his stylish hand-crafted shoes to the world....
Sarah Lesnar
Man Raises $122,000 on Kickstarter, Spends it All on Himself
A man raised $122,000 in crowdfunding to create a fantasy board game and ended up using the money on himself, involving for the first time t...
Augustine Reyes Chan
Meet The Juice Company That Primarily Uses Fruits And Veggies Others Throw Away
New to market and freshly touting their Kickstarter campaign, Eden Juice is a distinctive new juice brand that prides themselves on u...
Foodbeast
This New Kickstarter Campaign Could Be The Answer to California’s Drought Problem
If there’s one environmental issue we should all be nervously contemplating, it’s the crisis involving the shortage of our most valuable res...
This New Knife Will Change the Way You Spread Butter Forever
Perhaps the greatest thing about innovation is that anything can be changed or added upon, no matter how insanely simple it is. ...
Max Chang
How I Raised $298,251 on Kickstarter
For an entrepreneur, there isn’t a worse feeling than having an unsuccessful crowdfunding campaign or watching someone with your same...
Aamir Patel
Orbitkey: You Won’t Believe How Much Money They Made Off a Keychain
Sometimes it really is the simplest ideas that are best. Founded by Australian entrepreneurs Rex Kuo and Charles Ng, Orbitkey is a startup...
This 20-Year-Old Entrepreneur Invented a Shirt That Cleans Itself and It’s Blowing Our Minds
Doing laundry is probably one of the most grueling tasks for anyone whose busy all the time. Now, you can save trips to the laundromat with...
Soma Water Founder: How He Built The Best Biodegradable Water Filter & Raised $150K On Kickstarter
Being an avid water drinker (as I hope everyone reading this is as well), I’ve always hated the typical water filtration device. They...
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