Two of the most-funded consumer electronics devices ever to succeed on Kickstarter have fallen on hard times recently. The team behind Coolest Cooler have begun selling production units on Amazon ahead of shipping to backers, and the team behind the Zano quadcopter drone have simply given up and filed for bankruptcy. Add to this list the sad story of Ouya, the upstart Android game console which was sold off to Razer earlier this year, and things are not looking up for the future of crowdfunded high-tech goods.



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