851 Percent Funded

It's three holes, a chunk of metal and suction cups.

That's The Oona, a novel phone stand created by  graduates Brad Leong and Danny Fukuba. It is versatile enough to stick to glass and metal surfaces, so you can use the GPS on your phone while you drive or while typing at your workspace.

But you can't get it quite yet; the Oona is still in the prototype phase. The guys didn’t have the money to manufacture the project, so they put it on Kickstarter, which is a way to crowdsource funding for projects.  Inventors and designers post their plans on the site, naming a target amount that they need to bring the project to life. Anyone who is interested in seeing the idea come to life can pledge any amount of money to make that happen.

“We originally asked for $10,000, but are way past that,” Leong said.  The project has 2,579 backers who have pledged $85,198 to see the project to fruition. That means it's about 851 percent funded. Not bad for their first product.