GearEye was supposed to be a gear tracking system based on RFID tags and a tracker in form of a small dongle or smartphone case. Its creators were running a successful crowdfunding campaigns in the end of 2016, but failed to deliver GearEye units till today. GearEye RFID tracking system still not delivered. Scam? Already back in November 2016 we informed you about an interesting crowdfunding project called GearEye (link to the article here). GearEye was supposed to be a gear tracking system based on radio-frequency identification (RFID) tags. It was supposed to help filmmakers and photographers manage their gear easily. I am saying “was supposed to”, because till today GearEye creators did not deliver their product. The GearEye crowdfunding campaigns were quite successful – they had two of them running from November 1st 2016 till December 30th 2016. Its creators raised $558,069 US on Kickstarter (their goal was only $60,000 US) and $657,523 on Indiegogo. Together it is slightly over $1.2M US for development and delivery of the GearEye tracking systems. The backers were sending between $120 and $600 US for GearEye kits depending on the number of RFID stickers and trackers (dongles or phone cases). The initial estimated delivery time was July 2017. The GearEye creators seem to communicate with the backers – they posted a total of 24 updates since spring 2017. Some of them were talking about passing the FCC (Federal Communications Commission) tests for wireless devices, some of them about changing various components, adjusting the PCB, adjusting...
Published By: CineD - Friday, 24 May, 2019