Kickstarter is cool.
This is a friend of mine living in China where electronics is produced, he raised $157k:
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/...uinos-manufact
If you see the promo video.. he made it himself, taking movie of himself with his stuff, and edited with plain apple mac... no mega offices with 100 bathrooms needed.
Next he said he will try another project involving a 3d printer, he said is hot topic and lots of these are produced in China where he is. Last time he visited me he gifted lots of chinese stuff such as an android usb pen you attach to TV and can go browse my cam site and see on 50" using wifi, worked faster than my nexus s and cost him only $25 including hdmi cable ($1 is price of hdmi cable in china).