Note！ These 15 hardware start-ups are trying to change the world.

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Endless new hardware companies have been the most beautiful in the start-up business landscape, they developed products are not applications, nor network services, but see the touch of hardware products ...

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Many of these hardware companies are the Kickstarter of the Web site, such as smart watch manufacturer Pebble, Android game maker Ouya, and so on. Having been successful on the Kickstarter website, these companies have invested millions of of dollars in conventional venture capital channels.

This is not a few hardware companies, the following is the technology Web site BusinessInsider selected the 15 focus on the hardware start-ups.

1, Grand St.

Founded in: 2012

Company headquarters address: New York State New York City

Founder: Amandapeton (Amanda Peyton), Yaren Handechi (Aaron hendhsaw) and Choila Louboutin (Joe Lallouz)

Concept: An E-commerce market specializing in the sale of consumer electronic products

Cause of concern: Grand St. is a network boutique that sells innovative technologies. Grand St is one of the best ways to discover new products, because the site only sells new products that its employees have tested themselves.

Capital: USD 1.3 million

2, Pebble

Founded in: 2012

Company headquarters address: San Francisco, California

Founder: Erik Magikowski (Eric Migicovsky)

Concept: A fully customizable electronic ink smart watch

Cause of concern: Pebble was one of the biggest fundraising projects on the Kickstarte R site, raising more than $10 million in about 30 days. Pebble smart watches use exercise and fitness applications to receive notifications from users ' smartphones. Pebble smart watches can also be wirelessly connected to smartphones.

Capital: USD 26.1 million

3, Ouya

Founded in: 2012

Company headquarters address: Los Angeles, California

Founder: Juliet Yurmain (Julie uhrman), Ivambejar (Yves Behar)

Concept: A 99-dollar, Android-based open source video game

Reason for concern: Ouya is changing the way we play video games. Previously, game consoles were usually priced at more than 300 dollars, but the product was much smaller and less expensive. Ouya has customized its own Android operating system and is now developing exclusive content. This platform is completely open, and any player in the Ouya can be a developer.

Capital: USD 23.6 million

4, Leap Motion

Founded in: 2010

Company headquarters address: San Francisco, California

Founder: Michaelbackword (Michael Buckwald), David Holz (David Holz)

Concept: Leap Motion made a compact motion sensor that allows users to interact with the computer wirelessly. The company's inspiration comes from a failed, mouse-and keyboard-based environment 3D modeling technology.

Reason for concern: Leap Motion Controller is very compact, it allows users to use gesture action to interact with the computer. Users just have to make a move before the computer screen. This innovative technology frees us from the shackles of the mouse and keyboard, and introduces the experience of the tablet computer to a desktop computer.

Capital: USD 44.1 million

5, Olloclip

Founded in: 2010

Company headquarters address: Huntington Bay, California

Founder: Patrick Orner (Patrick O ' Neil)

Concept: To achieve a better camera experience on smartphones

Cause of concern: Olloclip uses a simple and lightly designed photographic technique. The company mainly produces professional lenses that can be installed on smartphones so that users can take photos with a variety of effects using smartphones.

Funding: personal contributions and 68201 dollars of investment from the Kickstarter platform

6, Littlebits

Founded in: 2011

Company headquarters address: New York State New York City

Founder: Ayabidair (Ayah bdeir)

Concept: Littlebits is a New York company that sells modular electronic components, which can be connected by tiny magnets for modeling, learning, and entertainment.

Cause of concern: Littlebits is a starting tool that allows you to develop your own equipment. You can play your creative role. For example, a littlebits user makes an alarm clock, wakes him up when the sun rises, and when he is at home, the alarm clock does not work. You can say, what you can think of, can use littlebits to make what.

Capital: USD 4.5 million

7, Lapka

Founded in: 2012

Company headquarters address: San Francisco, California

Founder: Wadickmammeradorf (Vadik Marmeladov), Cherges-Filipf (Sergey Philippov)

Concept: Lapka is a set of 4 beautifully designed environmental sensors that are connected to the user's iPhone. The company's goal is to combine Yves with NASA.

Reason for concern: Lapka's sensors can be connected to the iphone via an iphone headphone jack, which can be used in conjunction with the iphone, which detects indicators of the surrounding environment, recording the amount of radiation, humidity, EMF, and even organic components of something. The company is equally concerned about the internal and external design of the product, so its equipment is beautifully designed.

Funds: Unknown

8, Ploom

Founded in: 2007

Company headquarters address: San Francisco, California

Founder: James Montsos (James monsees), Adambovin (Adam Bowen)

Concept: Ploom design and manufacture of portable tobacco evaporator, this product changes the traditional smoking experience. Ploom's most popular product Pax incorporates modern technology, materials, crafts, and exquisite minimalist design.

Cause of concern: evaporation is another way of smoking. The Ploom portable evaporator can extract active ingredients from tobacco through high temperature heating without using an open flame to burn tobacco. This device does not use an open flame and does not emit smoke or secondhand smoke. This is not to say that smoking is good for the human body, but at least it is much better than the traditional way of smoking.

Funds: Unknown

9, SpaceMonkey

Founded in: 2011

Company headquarters address: Utah State Salt Lake City

Founder: Klinte Gaudenkalor (Clint gordon-carroll), Scharnharsen (Shane Hassen), Allempicock (Alen Peacock)

Concept: Our files are slowly being stored in the cloud, but Spacemonky thinks there is a loophole in the way we interact with the cloud now. It wants to strip the data center in the cloud and move the cloud to the very edge of the consumer's home.

Cause of concern: SpaceMonkey 120 dollars a year to provide 1TB of cloud storage capacity. SpaceMonkey devices move the cloud to your home, making it easier to store, share, and access all digital content, including photos, videos, files, and music. Once you store a file on a spacemonkey, SpaceMonkey will keep it safe. You do not need to back up the file. SpaceMonkey will save a copy of your file to a local spacemonkey device and save another encrypted copy to its storage network.

Capital: USD 2.6 million

10, Makerbot

Founded in: 2009

Company headquarters address: New York, Brooklyn

Founder: Brippertis (Bre petis), Adammeyers (Adam Mayer), Zakhoken Smith (Zack hoeken Smith)

Concept: Makerbot produces a consumer-grade 3D printer

Cause for concern: Makerbot's 3D printer is relatively inexpensive, with retail starting at $1999. In addition, Makerbot's full-time staff also provides support services and relatively inexpensive production materials, thus gaining a certain advantage in the competition.

Capital: USD 10 million

11, Amiigo

Founded in: 2011

Company headquarters address: Utah State Salt Lake City

Founder: Scott (David Scott), Abicate (Abe Carter), Nahomwoki (Nahom Workie)

Concept: Amiigo is a wearable wrist strap and shoe sensor manufacturer that produces products that can perceive the user's ongoing movement

Reason for concern: Amiigo is a very interesting new wearable device that uses Bluetooth technology to butt the wrist strap and shoelaces. It can be connected to IOS phones and Android phones. Amiigo is unique because it is also equipped with memory to keep data for several hours. The user does not need to maintain Bluetooth networking while in use. Amiigo also has social features that allow users to compete with friends, share information on social networking sites, achieve goals and score points.

Funding: 580698 dollar investment through Indiegogo

12, Chargecard

Founded in: 2012

Company headquarters address: Los Angeles, California

Founder: Noyadentzer (Noah Dentzel), Adamilles (Adam Miller)

Concept: Chargecard is a strange form of thin card-shaped charging cable that can be plugged into a wallet.

Concern reason: the smartphone often appears the problem that the electricity is insufficient, Chargecard emerges as a result. Chargecard can be compatible with all smartphones supporting the MicroUSB interface, Apple products that support the 30-pin interface (iphone 3gs/4/4s, ipad 1,2 and 3), and even Apple products with the latest Flash interface (iphone 5, ipad 4 and ipad mini).

Funding: 161897 dollars invested through Kickstarter

13, Ninja Blocks

Founded in: 2012

Company headquarters address: Eton, Australia

Founder: Macoscapi (Marcus schappi), Madren Chapi (Madeleine Schappi), Peter Moore (Pete Moore)

Concept: Ninja Blocks can connect everything you have to the Web.

Cause of concern: With Ninja Blocks, you can automate your device. For example, using Ninja Blocks, when your buddy is playing Xbox Live, it sends you a message, or when someone knocks at your door, it can send a short message to your phone.

Funding: 1.1 million dollars invested through Kickstarter

14, Lockitron

Founded in: 2009

Company headquarters address: San Francisco, California

Founder: Cameron Robertson (Cameron Robertson), Paul Gilhart (Paul Gerhardt)

Concept: Lockitron can help you open the door without a key.

Cause of concern: Lockitron is beautifully designed to open most billiard locks. It comes with built-in WiFi, so you can use it to unlock and opening remotely. You can also check the lock status with a dedicated iphone application. The biggest feature of Lockitron is the ability to integrate Bluetooth, so it has an inductive function that automatically opens the door lock when the user's iphone 4S or iphone 5 is near the door lock.

Capital: USD 2.2 million

15, Everpurse

Founded in: 2012

Company headquarters address: Illinois State, Chicago

Founder: Leeds Salcedo (Liz Salcedo)

Concept: A small wallet with a special pocket that you can use to recharge your smartphone wirelessly.

Concern: The company intends to develop a powerful and easy-to-use product. Just put your phone in a special pocket in your wallet and it can be recharged. This product not only uses a powerful technology, but also beautifully designed and diverse. The everpurse itself is very easy to charge, as long as it is placed on the wireless charging board, it will automatically fill the electricity. Everpurse itself stores enough electricity to fill your phone two times a day.

Funding: 238187 dollars invested through Kickstarter