The Pebble Smartwatch Raises $5M -- Biggest Kickstarter Ever

Kickstarter has been making some pretty serious waves lately.  After legendary game designer Tim Schaeffer and his Double Fine game team raised $3.4m, we’ve seen the company launch all sorts of million dollar projects.  These were all huge, but none was able to match the scale of the Pebble e-paper watch, which has raised over $5,000,000 at the time of this writing.  The project is continuing to gain steam with a plethora of positive reviews and a viral campaign that has seen 35,000 people support the project.

What is the watch?  The best way to get the gist is to check out the video.

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