After Raising A Boatload Of Kickstarter Cash, Diaspora Asks Users For A $25 Donation Each

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Diaspora was supposed to be a breath of fresh air from Facebook's inaccessible take on privacy.

After the new social network startup successfully raised just over $200,000 on Kickstarter last year (smashing the $10,000 goal), it's pretty much fallen off the radar.

Now they've reached out to users via email to ask for donations, reports The Next Web:

“We’re not in this for the money. But today we’re asking for your help — some money — to keep building Diaspora*. Can you contribute $25 or any other amount you feel comfortable with?”

The Next Web responds perfectly to this request, saying:

Today’s email is quite clearly a last ditch attempt from the team to keep things running – a “what have we got to lose?” moment I imagine. But one look at what’s been built with the $178,000+ raised should tell you your money is better spent, or indeed donated, elsewhere.

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REAL LIFE SUPERPOWER: This Kickstarter Project Wants To Help You See Through Objects

  x You have successfully emailed the post. Jon Rodriguez addresses human vision as a problem. We only see in two dimensions -- what would 3D vision be like?

His Kickstarter project, Voxel Vision, aims to design a system that lets humans see "within and behind solid objects within any virtual world."

In a practical sense, Rodriguez writes that his system could enable surgeons to "see the entire interior volume of a patient," police officers to "see within rooms and behind walls to avoid an ambush," and cell biologists could even "visualize the entire interior of a cell."

It sounds like black magic, but Rodriguez has already raised more than $3,500 of his $6,000 goal. (A donation of $3,000 will fetch you the Voxel Vision hardware before it lands on the general market.)

Rodriguez dissects what his project is all about and how it works in much more (complex) detail on the Kickstarter page and on this Quora page.

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