Outside of the many blog posts on the Scribble pen, these people do not exist on the Internet.'' E.g: 'Not one of these three people can be found on LinkedIn as being employed by Scribble, or even working in the San Francisco area in a tech startup. The article that the thread cites reveals that ' there is no footprint of the company or the founders - Robert Hoffman and 'Mark Barker' - existing. The thread goes on to claim to have identified the guy behind the original Kickstarter. A word of warning: Take what comes next with a grain of salt because, well it's reddit.Ī reddit user named wanderingjew claims to have written this article, where he explains that The Guardian interviewed 'someone who didn't exist' for their coverage of the Scribble pen. 'The next frame the scribbles magically appear!' Imgur/Scribble Numerous other posts on imgur note similar discrepancies. In an imgur post, user ilikepie641 describes how he found a “glitch” in Scribble's original Youtube video, revealing that the drawings may have been faked and put in during post production. So what have we got here? The team isn't having a lot of success on these crowdfunding platforms, but that doesn't mean their product isn't great, right? Funny that literally thousands of other creators ran successful campaigns with only prototypes, but sure. The creators claimed that Tilt's issue was that they only had a prototype, and the product wasn't 100% ready. Since these conditions were not satisfied, we decided that the best course of action to protect our community - both contributors and organizers - was to discontinue the campaign and refund 100% of all payments over the next three days.'īefore being cancelled, the pen raised $227,540 on Tilt. 'Upon the internal review, we requested additional information from the campaign organizers and provided a defined window of time for them to provide a new video of an actual, working prototype like seen in the video OR an in-person prototype of the pen. However, Tilt closed the campaign because 'the creators again failed to provide sufficient details.' They wrote, The Scribble team moved their campaign to Tilt, another crowdfunding platform. However, they chose to do it through their own crowdfunding website. The Scribble team wrote that Kickstarter's specifications were 'arbitrary,' 'not known to us upfront,' and 'the ultimatum was impossible to meet.' Not long after announcing the cancellation, the team announced the relaunch of the campaign. We fully assure you that there is no reason to panic and our team is doing its very best to come up with a much better and very informative video that will put all your questions and concerns to rest.'

However, We received an email from kickstarter dated 08/12/14 requesting a new and more illustrative video within 24 hours, so we had to cancel the project with hopes of restarting it again with a much more detailed video. 'In view of the many requests to better see and understand how the Scribble Pen and Scribble Stylus works, we are currently shooting another video in more depth which will be available sometime next week. They even reached the goal within five hours of launching the campaign. That's more than three times their original goal. Three years later, 'funding for this project was cancelled by the project creator' despite the fact that the team raised $366,566. It looks like the first evidence of the Scribble Pen was on Kickstarter in August 2011. In short, that the Scribble Pen might be too good to be true (all evidence seems to point that way, at least).

Sounds great, right? Like many, you've probably been questioning: Just how can this piece of technology work? We wondered the same thing - and we're here to report the science behind the tech, or rather, that there doesn't seem to be any. Because of its small size we have created a number of innovations never seen before in the color reproduction industry.' 'We've been in the design process for two years and the Scribble has gone through various design changes to get it to where we are now, a working prototype that’s ready for use in home and business applications. Scribble, the 'revolutionary pen that draws in any color ' from Scribble Technology claims that it is able to scan color from any object and instantly reproduce the color on paper or a digital screen.

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