The WORST Kickstarter Scams

Added: 2026-05-10

[00:00:00]Hello and welcome to This is Kickstarter is a great place to get scammed.

[00:00:06]Indiegogo go is a great way to empty your wallet and never get a product. And I'm sure there's a third thing. Wait, wait, hold on. Are you trying to tell me that by helping to fund entrepreneurs who have a dream and a vision that they may or may never realize, but you can pay money up front anyway is a bad idea. I will tell you that every time I've done a Kickstarter for Mystery Tech and whatnot, my like success rate of getting a product for K for our for mystery tech is something like 10%. For those who don't back things all the time, I pay a lot of money. Well, I I pay a lot of his money >> to get emails weekly about why I'm never going to receive that product. What we're going to do is we're going to decide whether we're going to see some Kickstarters here and we're whether we're going to back them or we're going to whack them off the >> Nope. Try again, >> Jack. Nope. No. No. Keep going. How about Kickstarter or Kick Farter?

[00:00:57]>> Thunder.

[00:00:59]>> Done.

[00:00:59]>> Fun. The Titan Gauntlet.

[00:01:02]>> What the hell?

[00:01:03]>> Have you ever wished your smartphone was more like the Nintendo Power Glove? This is like a watch. It features a smart display and magnetic points for modular attachment. Oh, so like a pit boy. Yeah.

[00:01:15]Includes a flashlight, multi-tool camera, and the Titan Tap NFC card where you just go and I just paid you for that. You can also get help from the AI assistant, Tannis. I'm going to be honest with you, this is what I thought the future was going to be was like actually I will say it looks cool. Like it all looks uh presumably like a big stainless steel boy or something. By wearing a Titan, you can show the world you can be who you set out to be. And it's basically just guys who are on Reddit complaining about the power scaling of like Iron Man or Goku.

[00:01:45]>> Jarvis would have totally not become Vision if he wasn't such a dumb stupid idiot. What would you do if I was just like the Falcon guy?

[00:01:53]>> I laugh at you. I'm pretty sure I could convince my therapist to write me a prescription for a emotional support Falcon and then you can't say about it. And so I just come in just like have fun accommodating me.

[00:02:09]This thing starts at $319, but if you want the flashlight, the camera, the Titan tap, 619 bucks. I'm going to say whack it. I'm also going to say whack.

[00:02:19]If it was actually built well and welldesigned, yes, but I don't think it will be. My buddy AI dog translation collar, the collar that understands your dog. Matt, I'm going to defer the stage to you as a owner of one Sir Nibbler, you probably already understand everything he says, do you not?

[00:02:36]>> Yeah, pretty much. Actually, if you're a dog owner and you're not having two-way conversations with your dog, I bet you're not lonely.

[00:02:44]>> Oh my god. Wait, I just realized how dumb this really is. So, this is trained on a 100,000 real dog barks and fine-tuned by certified professional dog trainers. Woof. Oh, that one's uh he's emotionally unready for what you're about to do outside.

[00:03:00]He's really really hungry, but you haven't fed him in 2 days. Woof woof woof woof. He just wants to take down the floor. So, apparently using uh their dog barks, their dog LLM, and OpenAI's whisper technology, they turned every wolf into words with 85% accuracy. And we know that because we've interviewed the dogs and they said woof woof woof, which means that I really want to have a complicated emotional conversation with you. Here's the thing. I don't care how strong your dog LLM is. I do not think that your woof woof woof woof is going to come out to anything more than like four words. Or at least that's what it should be. I'm going to defer to you, man. You're the dog owner. You know more than I do. I think the connection you have with your dog is less verbal and more empathic. Verdict is no. I love my dog, but there's other options. This video is brought to you by Squarespace.

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[00:05:13]Until today, no physical brick andmortar store motar store would take my newly invented, unproven piece of onto the shelf. Maybe if you call it that might not be the greatest sales pitch. Continuous blockade and sabotage efforts from large corporations who somehow see RBT design as a true threat to profit. Over the last 8 years, they've been trying to copy while waiting for my patents to expire so they could clone it in 2038. Playing the long game. But I've since then filed continuation patents and designed patents, both published and unpublished.

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[00:05:55]Against all odds, against all odds through the years I've toughened up. I refuse to play dirty. I still refuse to buy fake reviews. This dude's a mother lunatic. What? This feels like the classic dude who shows up in Shark Tank who thinks he's got a brilliant genius idea and they're like that's the dumbest thing I've ever heard.

[00:06:09]>> The idea is that it's supposed to prevent carpal tunnel.

[00:06:13]>> I think if we separate that lunatic message that he has written on the >> I feel like the message is the red flag.

[00:06:19]I could see this product being good for someone. This could be the cure for cancer. And if I see this like manifesto going, I'm like, you know what? I'll take my I'll take my chances. Verdict is >> absolutely not. What are you I'm I'm not backing the guy.

[00:06:35]>> Photon matrix anti-mosquito air defense.

[00:06:38]This is able to detect mosquitoes and kill them with lasers. Okay, now everyone laughs, but I will say this is somewhat real technology. I don't know about this one specifically, but there is a way to detect. There are methods where you can basically scan whether it's by LAR or cameras or whatever and you can use little lasers to shoot mosquitoes. Like that is actually a real thing.

[00:06:57]>> This is Reagan Star Wars. Apparently, this will not hit house flies, wasps, or hornets because they're too fast. But mosquitoes, they're too slow and dumb.

[00:07:05]They go zap, zap, zap. Supposedly, a laser that can kill a mosquito may actually be a little bit harmful.

[00:07:11]Luckily, they have used a combination of LAR and millimeter wave radar to detect larger objects like humans, and it will not fire it if it detects their approach. So, as long as you're in the room, the mosquitoes will bite the out of you. The devil's in the details.

[00:07:23]And some random dude selling you this on Kickstarter. The one who has figured out how to not accidentally blind you while zapping mosquitoes.

[00:07:29]>> You know what I love? Swatting at mosquitoes like I'm some big kaiju. I'M LIKE like it's really fun.

[00:07:37]>> This thing is $629 though. Do you hate mosquitoes that much? I'm going to say I'm going to regret this back.

[00:07:43]>> I'm backing it.

[00:07:44]>> I just if they can do it right, this is cool. I don't think they can do it right.

[00:07:47]>> They might be depriving a Jurassic Park scenario at some point. Every bug has a has a point in the ecosystem.

[00:07:55]mosquitoes.

[00:07:56]>> Absolutely. Out of here. No, we can take them all, put them in a giant burlap sack, and throw it at the sun.

[00:08:01]>> Zenaia.

[00:08:02]>> No, no, no. She's busy doing other things. Sorry.

[00:08:04]>> Ultra tech robot wasp. Hold on. Wait.

[00:08:08]What? We have the technology to build robot wasps. Hold.

[00:08:11]>> Do you want to be a fly on the wall?

[00:08:13]Well, you can't, but you can be a wasp.

[00:08:15]>> Wait, but this is not real. There supposedly is a working prototype that flies despite all the videos being clearly AI generated. Only a a mere $1,000 for the limited prototype access.

[00:08:26]What? During development, several unexpected technical issues appeared that slowed down progress. The durability of the micro wings, the finetuning of stabilization and energy efficiency are all areas that still need work. These difficulties contributed to the campaign not taking off the way I hoped. You think, dude, this is the biggest scam I've ever seen. He's at $11,000 out of 300,000. That's his mom.

[00:08:45]Product update. Product in crisis. The goal of this project is $300,000, which is a huge amount, perhaps even too ambitious. Some of you have supported this project in truly remarkable ways.

[00:08:55]One outstanding supporter, my mom, contributed $7,000. You have my deepest respect and gratitude for this. You are amazing. However, at this point, it seems increasingly unlikely that the project will reach its final goal. I kindly ask all of you, if possible, to reach out to me and get in contact with me any way you can. Thank you again for everything.

[00:09:13]>> For what? I mean, absolutely not.

[00:09:16]>> That is the biggest game I've ever seen.

[00:09:18]No, I know that like we have fun like making fun of stuff for like content.

[00:09:21]How is it there's not actual any moderation on these platforms? The VSS1 game controller. What in the 3D printed AI generated is this >> controller where you never have to take your thumbs off the analog sticks? There are no face buttons or D-pad. Instead, it has a four-way hat switch that is also a scroll wheel next to the R1 or face buttons. So, it's $82 for the 3D print your own housing kit. It's $129 for a kit with filament printed housing and $153 for a kit with resin printed housing. I do see merit to this if it's good though. That feels like such a big question. Like, is this thing actually good? Could you not just use a Pro Controller that like is it just mapped like XY?

[00:10:04]>> I don't hate the idea of this. It's not terrible, but >> I just don't know why it's not on the back of the controller. I'm going to I'm going to give them a shot.

[00:10:10]>> I don't want to hate on something like it's not like the worst idea I've ever seen. Like it's a neat little project.

[00:10:16]I'm unconvinced that this is worth spending the money on up front. Now maybe this is like one of those special things where once you get used to it and you don't want to go back to another thing, but like to me I just it's not it.

[00:10:25]>> Nomadic.

[00:10:27]Cool.

[00:10:27]>> What?

[00:10:28]>> Everyone knows you it's a good product if they have dot in the middle of it.

[00:10:32]It's a backpack with an attached compressor cooler.

[00:10:35]>> Like a whole ass like refrigerator basically.

[00:10:36]>> Yeah.

[00:10:37]>> What?

[00:10:37]>> Yeah. It has a rack that holds drinks directly on it to cool them down within 10 minutes. It's only 8.8 lb or 4 kg for you king people.

[00:10:51]>> It's got Bluetooth for what?

[00:10:53]>> Unclear. It's got a 100 amp hour battery, >> which is the biggest legal limit. Yeah, if that's a real battery, that's not bad. But like it's probably not like >> I don't know about that.

[00:11:04]>> Currently in the design phase and do not yet have a physical prototype.

[00:11:08]>> I could tell you that I have a 2 lb battery that lasts for 10,000 hours if I'm just designing it. So basically what they're showing is just a bunch of mock-ups. You cannot sell a product if you don't have a physical prototype.

[00:11:20]While there's nothing against investing in ideas, the idea of a damn refrigerator, like how is it supposed to be 8.8 lb? How do you know that? No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. Verdict.

[00:11:30]>> Hell no. You've got to make the thing. I think I've liked one thing so far. These are bad.

[00:11:35]>> The rewind picks. It's a non-disposable film camera.

[00:11:40]>> Wait, so just a film camera? Cuz everyone just thinks that film cameras are disposable.

[00:11:44]>> It includes lots of film vibes filters and also has an app for easily transferring photos and applying filters and adjustments. Early bird at price, it's $109. This could be like a fun like, you know, oh, I'm going out like fun little quick thing. This does seem legit. It does feel weird.

[00:12:02]>> This is a Teimu digital camera you can buy for $20 with some unnecessary filters on it. This is like No, I I applaud them for not making this like, you know, 200, 300 bucks and being like, "This is revolutionary.

[00:12:12]>> It doesn't even look good. This does not look retro. There are elements of this that are okayish, but the problem is that the execution, it looks ugly." I did see a thing that I'm I'm I'm not really with the youth, but I am on this thing. Gen Z is going more analog.

[00:12:27]Having more intentional gadgets, I'm down for I think the best way to do a lot of this stuff is actually the retro way, right? If you want that older school look and you still want some kind of digital capability, may I suggest an old point and shoot? Those have become very popular. The fact that it is a literal cheap garbage digital camera that just has some extra like limitations. It's like what makes film great isn't the fact that you can only shoot 36 photos. What? Like no, it's the way it looks. And adding some filter on a little like basically like old smartphone sensor is not it. I'm molding on this one. This one.

[00:13:00]>> This one bothers me. Absol freakingutely not.

[00:13:03]>> You need to go in your timeout corner.

[00:13:05]>> Buy a damn Fuji like a real hipster. The Luna Deskmate. Wait, this looks familiar. Does that look like a damn iMac G4? But this, even though it looks like that, is in fact the world's first AI co-worker. Citation needed. There's a mount that turns your iPhone into a robot companion's face and connects to your computer.

[00:13:22]>> No prompt engineering. You just talk to it. It's always watching, always listening. It knows when you've been sleeping. It knows when you're awake. It knows when you've been bad or good. Good for goodness sake. But your data is definitely not shared. Okay. I will say that while there are some like low-level like AI models like Gemma that you can run locally on your phone, they're not that smart. And I highly doubt that they're doing that, especially if you're paying for credits.

[00:13:44]>> This company has previously made robot toys for kids with mixed reviews.

[00:13:47]>> It also has a 165 watt GAN power station and it does have three Doth Bionic Motion. My main question is this is a cute little gimmick. They're trying to pitch it as a real smart AI coworker >> and then you know they're selling your data.

[00:13:58]>> I would actually be down to try this because I kind of am curious to see. I doubt it's that good. It is technically possible to build something like this.

[00:14:06]It is cute and cool and could actually be somewhat functional.

[00:14:10]a Jarvis.

[00:14:11]>> I'm going to give it the softest back.

[00:14:13]>> I'm saying no.

[00:14:15]>> I'm curious. Narrated AI legendary.

[00:14:19]>> Don't you hate it when video games make you read? What if the Tik Tok text to speech lady read it all to you instead?

[00:14:25]>> Wait, wait, Kenzie, can you do the voice?

[00:14:27]>> Don't you hate it when video games make you read?

[00:14:30]>> I love when you do the voice. The idea here, I'm trying to really understand this. If you're playing a game with a whole lot of text and no voice acting, it will read your screen and narrate what you're seeing. Windows and Mac OS both have some kind of like screen narrator. I guess maybe it wouldn't game.

[00:14:46]>> I guess like I'm going to Yeah, like I'm going to give this the benefit of the doubt for a second and say this is actually like gamer focus. I'm going to pretend like this is not actually >> the the Texas beach lady. I could see this being >> fine. Like if you bought it for 30 bucks down there was a subscription. No. I'm saying yes.

[00:15:07]>> You are.

[00:15:08]>> Look, there's accessibilities. Yeah.

[00:15:10]Yeah.

[00:15:10]>> Also, how many games are like, man, this would be so much better if there was voice acting.

[00:15:14]>> But here's the thing, though. I doubt it's not like it's just read random text and come up with a bunch of great voices. Cellix selfie case. Oh, okay. I actually know this. They're basically taking like smartwatch screens. Stuffing it into like a phone case that connects via like AirPlay or something. The idea is that obviously your rearfacing camera is much better than the frontfacing. So, you know, you can take better photos and whatnot. Problem is, if you try to take a photo with your rearfacing camera, it's hard to frame up. So, you got that little screen. It's not a bad idea. The problem is that there's a lot of other ways you can do this. There are a lot of just like little like screens or like mags that you just slap on the back of your phone that are much larger. It's not terrible. I want to say like this is >> and for 80 bucks.

[00:15:48]>> The problem is a case feels very like restrictive. I'm going to say no. Just >> I don't think it's terrible, but I'm not a case guy and I'm also not a selfie guy.

[00:15:56]>> Levitating golf ball. It levitates with magnets. The limitations of traditional golf courses and the rigid nature of the game have caused many people to gradually drift away from their original love of the sport.

[00:16:08]>> As a golfer, what what what do you not golf all the time?

[00:16:11]>> Uh, it's expensive. Well, what if you were able to whack the ball real hard and then never find it again and have to buy another levitating golf ball? Uh, >> if you take off your like I'm a golf dad hat and put on your I'm a douchebag hat.

[00:16:27]You can just put this in your office.

[00:16:28]>> Often they're the same thing.

[00:16:30]>> Well, and you spin the ball and it goes like and it's 138 bucks. There are many of these little magnet style things out there that are actually really cool.

[00:16:38]It's a little expensive, but this actually doesn't seem crazy to me. Like it's not my thing, but like I get it.

[00:16:41]>> I just You can go get one of those other orb like death star things for like 20 bucks.

[00:16:46]>> Verdict.

[00:16:46]>> I'm actually on board.

[00:16:48]>> You know what? This looks like a great thing to put on your desk and make dad jokes about.

[00:16:51]>> If it's signed by Tiger Woods post crash, then maybe the laundry chair. If you have some clothes that are maybe not clean, but not dirty enough to wash again, what are you going to do with them? Where are you going to put them somewhere? You're going to put them on your countertop, going to put them on the end of your bed? Or you can get a laundry chair, which is specifically designed so you can put all your clothes on them, but still use it as a chair.

[00:17:14]Now, this is a $1,000 chair, which is a lot of money. I will say, unlike a lot of the other things we're looking at, Simone actually like makes real cool.

[00:17:26]She has a whole company all about like making wacky weird things that seem like a hilarious YouTube thumbnail, but are actually like cool products that she spent years designing.

[00:17:34]>> I can't imagine a $1,000 chair, let alone a $1,000 meme chair. Verdict.

[00:17:38]>> I'm actually a thumbs up on this. I don't know if I would buy one, but I think it's cool as hell. over $1.1 million.

[00:17:46]Wow.

[00:17:46]>> Well, it turns out when you're like a, you know, a pretty authentic creator, people tend to to back you on things.

[00:17:52]>> Wait, there are authentic creators?

[00:17:54]>> Yeah.

[00:17:54]>> Wait, was that an option for us, too?

[00:17:56]>> No.

[00:17:56]>> Oh. Oh, darn.

[00:17:57]>> In fact, if you back me, I will just go away.

[00:18:02]>> If you guys do a group thing, I will shut the up.

[00:18:06]>> King Jesus worship center. Wait, is that a pyramid? Yep.

[00:18:11]>> Are we kickstarting a whole church? So, this is from a guy in Lafayette, Louisiana, who wants to build a combination mega church and concert venue only for Christian artists.

[00:18:20]Apparently, he only needs 40 to 60 million to do this. This is so clearly a dude spent 5 minutes. So, clearly obviously just like tbt, spit out all of this information, rendered a couple photos, and he threw it up. That's not even a pyramid. That's like a weird like rhombus.

[00:18:35]>> Verdict. No.

[00:18:36]>> No. No. When we were looking to buy buildings, I was really pitching for us to buy a church school. Well, you liked it because they had a whole theater and you're like, "Oh, we could build multiple sets on the theater >> and there was like 30 dorms. We could have all had company housing."

[00:18:51]>> You're just trying to build a damn company town over here. That seems like a really bad idea. Imagine if we >> Oh, Mr. Beast does it and suddenly everyone's on board. But I try and do it. Let us know what you would back.

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