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Kickstarter has always been a great platform for creators to gather up supporters create a community and have their dreams come true and for consumers it's a great way to take a peek into the future to see what new exciting technology is on its way hello everybody its Christa Laura and this is top Kickstarter's of the month in this episode we'll be taking a look at the hottest and coolest Kickstarter projects of April seeing how they work where they're pledging goals are add and more so let's jump right in now I don't know how many of you are like me where even with all these touchscreen laptops and phones or cell is's I still prefer to take my notes and sketch with actual pen and paper but unfortunately I don't have any way to save my notes in an organized way or back them up into the cloud but rocket book wave is a project that looks to be the answer to this problem it's a microwaveable notebook rocket book wave is a notebook and an app where you can instantly blast your notes you wrote on a piece of paper into the cloud using your phone rocket books machine vision instantly record your note and he answers it and uploads it to any destination you choose as your default so no you're not just saving photos of your notebook lying on a table the photos that wind up getting sent to the cloud are enhanced images that get rid of any background areas like the notebook itself and gets rid of any imperfections so your uploaded notes are simply your handwriting over a pure white background making images more crisp and vibrant than the real thing there's also symbols on the bottom of each page that you can mark and you can set these up so for example when you mark the diamond symbol it can send it to your customer meetings folder in Evernote or when doodling mark the star symbol where it could send it to a folder you set up and drive so that's great you can save your notes within the cloud very fast and easily but now you have a bunch of notes in this notebook that you don't really need anymore because they're already in the cloud and a big problem with taking notes with the notebooks is once they're filled you're gonna have to buy a new one but with rocket book as long as you're using friction pilot pens which are available in many office supply stores you can erase your entire notebook by throwing it in the microwave for about four minutes so yeah the rocket book is microwave safe and with those friction pilot pens using a special thermochromic ink notes become clear under heat so when your notebook is full just put it in the microwave and when you see the wave logo on the notebook turn from blue to white you know that your rocket book has been cleared and is ready for more note-taking Rocket book is only seeking a pledging goal of 20,000 but at the moment there aren't 570 thousand dollars now there's another Kickstarter project similar to this one but I think is a bit more interesting and it still needs some help reaching its goal it's called cap TiVo and it would be very helpful in offices and classrooms cap TiVo is based on the idea that although white boards are found everywhere and we depend on them to help us communicate ideas to others in a room they create a lot of extra hassle in today's connected world instead of focusing on the meeting and the ideas that are being presented we're oftentimes only focused on copying down everything into your notebook and of course we've all been there why don't we just take out our phones at the end of class and take a few photos at the white board including reflections and the top of classmates heads and yeah these pictures really go along nicely sitting between your family photos on your camera roll but kept TiVo aims to fix these problems essentially it's a little camera that you can mount to the top of the whiteboard in the office or classroom and it does require some drilling but after you're done with that you can start using your whiteboard again as normally use a normal pen use the same standard whiteboard you've been using and use any number of people collaborating at the same time and everything you write is captured automatically with the camera and broadcast it to others in the room with the Captiva app with clean and sharp images in real time Captiva fixes angle distortion removes glares and even erases hands and arms leaving you only with the writing over a true white background thanks to the kept TiVo app if you want to see how the whiteboard evolved during a class or a meeting you can easily use a playback feature to rewind pause and fast-forward to see exactly what you want if the final product can actually do all these things that promises it could really be a game-changer because it works with any whiteboard you already own instead of buying a new one for $1,000 or more right now light blue optics the creators of cap TiVo are seeking a goal of seventy five thousand but at the moment are only at twenty seven thousand dollars with 17 days left to go so we'll have to see what happens and next up we have one of the most popular kick starters of April with a project that has already earned over 10 times its original goal ripple buds which are ear buds that can record your voice using the sound coming from the inside of your ear like any successful Kickstarter we have a common problem or inconvenience that a lot of us wish there was an answer for with ripple buds it's a struggle to communicate clearly with people with voice calls in the fast-paced world we live in today you'll see tons of people in big cities trying to cut through the noise to talk to somebody while calling on the way to the next meeting or event cutting through that noise is tough and usually calls for you to talk extra loud press the phone harder to ear or bring tangled in your ear buds ripple buds are very small wireless earbuds that also sport a wireless microphone well how exactly is a microphone that's pretty much inside your ear going to pick up the noise all the way from your mouth while cancelling out the background noise at the same time well it doesn't pick up noise from your mouth instead it picks up the noise coming from inside your eardrum ripple buds creates a two-way path for sound waves the less you hear and speak with just a single bud as sound waves travel from your body to your mouth they also exit through the eustachian tube in your eardrums hear ripple buds can capture this sound and transmit it to the caller very clearly before it can be lost by background noise that's pretty incredible you don't even have to talk very loudly at all four colors to hear you and even doing things like activating okay Google or Siri while doing things like driving will be much more reliable with a lot less interference and already ripple buds have about 5000 backers pledging a total of $600,000 over the initial goal of $50,000 now here's something that can save us a lot of money and more importantly a lot of lives in just North America alone we spend eight billion dollars a year on speeding tickets and unfortunately a lot of lives are lost as well due to speeding trap tap is a small little device you put on your dashboard that knows every location of red light cameras and school zones while relying on the community to mark the location of police and mobile radar tracks and this all sounds very familiar I'm sure because there's tons of apps that already do this but that's the problem that Bryce North creator of trapped app recognized it's always an app on your phone the one thing that you're not supposed to be using while driving that usually sits below the windshield in your cup holder taking your eyes off the road when driving trap tap will light up red when you're approaching red light cameras and school zones or blue when you're approaching a police or mobile radar trap you can even have trapped app adapt to your lifestyle having it blink when you've come to your trap or only if you're speeding near one it sits right on your dashboard so your attention will always still be on the road and already trapped tap has received ninety nine thousand dollars other sixty four thousand dollar goal but thirty one days to go well that will be all for this episode of top Kickstarter's of the month thank you very much for watching make sure you check out this review of the LG g5 here and of course follow me and Android authority on all our social media listed below and as always check out our website and read authority calm and subscribe to our channel android authority as we are your source for all things Android