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"Launching with a view to raise $950,000 in 30 days, games console startup Ouya reached its Kickstarter target in just 8 hours. Fast forward a few hours and then project has blasted past the $2 million barrier, and is now calling upon backers to suggest what it should do with its money.\r\n\r\nWith 28 days to go, Ouya stands at $2.225 million with a total of 17,806 backers, more than doubling its target in its first day. At its current funding rate, Ouya looks set to overtake the Pebble smartwatch as the most popular Kickstarter project ever, which accumulated more than $10 million to bring notifications, apps and other smart features to an e-Ink watch.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nOn Kickstarter, Ouya's creators posted a thank you message to backers, stating that they were &amp;quot;shocked&amp;quot; at the response that the project received:\r\nDo you realize what you've done? You proved consoles aren't dead. You shocked the world. And us!\r\n\r\nWe are blown away by your support. With your help, we just raised $2 million. And it\u2019s only the first day.\r\n\r\nNow we want to blow you away. The biggest thing for us right now: we are working on our stretch goals, what we can do if we raise more money. It might take us a few days to figure that out, and we want your help.\r\n\r\nTell us what you would like the stretch goals to be at ideas@ouya.tv.\r\n\r\nAnd, if you want to vote on what games you want to see on OUYA... tell us here... https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/ouya\r\nKickstarter is heralded for the way it crowdsources funding, and project creators are leveraging that interest to make sure their products and services see the light of day, but are created to be the best that they can be.\r\n\r\nIf you aren't familar with the Ouya games console, allow us to explain.\r\n\r\nIt is hoped that Ouya will shake up the games industry with its low price of $99 and is\u00A0the work of \u00A0Yves B\u00E9har, who is also responsible for Jawbone\u2019s revolutionary UP health wristband and also worked with Barnes &amp;amp;amp; Noble on its Nook e-readers.\r\n\r\nIt is built on Android but it will have its own marketplace, with a key difference compared to its competitors: all games will be free to try, at least to some extent. Developers will be free to use the platform as they wish, and monetize games by the means they see fit, Ouya\u2019s team says.\r\n\r\nInside, it features a\u00A0Tegra 3 quad-core processor,\u00A01GB RAM,\u00A08GB of internal flash storage,\u00A0HDMI,\u00A0WiFi 802.11 b/g/n ,\u00A0Bluetooth LE 4.0,\u00A0USB 2.0 (one), a wireless controller with standard controls (two analog sticks, d-pad, eight action buttons, a system button) and a touchpad.\r\n\r\nKickstarter backers are already asking for USB 3.0 connections to be included, now that the funding goal has been reached, and we can expect many more now the projects creators have opened up suggestions."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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