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"To commemorate a true innovator, a California company wants to get a statue of Nikola Tesla erected in Silicon Valley.\nTesla discovered various innovations in sectors including electromagnetics, electricity and earthquake machinery. In honor of Tesla, Silicon Valley company Northern Imagination is trying to raise $123,000 on Kickstarter to make the statue a reality.\nThe proposed statue would be built in Palo Alto, Calif., home to many tech companies, startups and near Stanford University. The statue rendering depicts Tesla holding a lightbulb, demonstrating a wireless electricity concept.\n\nSEE ALSO: 10 Kickass Kickstarter Projects From Last Year\nIn line with Silicon Valley's tech culture, the statue will even serve as a free Wi-Fi hotspot. The statue base will also house a time capsule with predictions from Kickstarter backers that will be opened in the year 2043.\nWith less than two days left to go in the Kickstarter campaign, as of Friday evening, backers had pledged only around $71,000 of the project's $123,000 goal.\nAn Indiegogo crowdfunding project recently raised more than $1.3 million for securing Telsa's old workshop in New York state, in order to eventually turn it into a museum.\nThumbnail and image courtesy of Northern Imagination via Kickstarter\n"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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