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Friday, August 26, 2011

THE Coolest Thing On Earth You Can Buy For $350

Fuck the IPhone.  To Hell with a year pass to Disneyland.  (Depending on the terms at which you buy them, you can't those things for $350, anyway.)  Check this out:



When I go to an aquarium, my favorite exhibit is always the jellyfish.  They're spellbinding.  I have always wanted to have jellyfish in a home aquarium, but have never seen them available in a store.  Turns out, jellyfish cannot go into normal rectangular aquariums, because they'll get stuck in the corners.  If you think about it, every jelly exhibit you've ever seen has been in a cylindrical tank.

On August 10, Alex Andon of Jellyfish Art posted a project on Kickstarter.com, as a way to gauge interest for his design and possibly get pre-orders.  His initial goal was to raise $3000 by September 12th.  The very next day, they reached their goal.

The day after that, their project received some unexpected advertisement in the form of a Tweet from record producer Jermaine Dupri:


Soon, every aspiring rapper and music producer in the nation was jockeying to get a jellyfish tank.  News of the Kickstarter project went viral.  The blogoshpere came alive with the story of how the internet could instantly take someone's idea, and make it a reality.  I have to admit, it's a pretty powerful thing.

As of the time of this posting, Jellyfish Art's Kickstarter project is currently at $96,055, with 260 people in line to get a tank when they're completed.  Keep in mind, the project is not set to expire until September 12th,  some 17 days away.

If you would like to contribute to the project, or would like to purchase a tank of your own, you can either click the link above or click on the widget below.

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