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"The Pebble E-Paper Watch is a Kickstarter record breaker and Web phenomenon after raising more than $10 million in crowdsourced donations, but the ambitious project has hit a snag after it postponed the first shipment of the much sought after 'smartwatch'.\r\n\r\nDespite the huge haul in funding and significant weight of expectation, the trio behind the project have revealed that the initial September launch has been delayed. The reason is pretty valid as the team first set out to make just 1,000...and following the stampede it has 85,000 orders to fulfil.\r\n\r\nNeedless to say, more time is required to cater to that demand.\r\n\r\nWriting on the project's Kickstarter page, co-founder and CEO Eric Migicovsky\u00A0explains all:\r\nIn terms of our schedule, we're sticking pretty closely to an aggressive timetable we put together at the end of May (remember our first timetable was created before we launched on Kickstarter, when we were expecting to manufacture just 1,000 Pebbles). While we won't be able to start shipping Pebbles in September, our current schedule has us on track to go from manufacturing zero to 15,000 Pebbles per week as soon as possible.\r\nDespite being under-development, Pebble has already inked a number of deals to bring some cool and useful features to its users, with\u00A0Run Keeper\u00A0and Twine\u00A0confirmed as early app partners.\r\n\r\nMigicovsky\u00A0also provided a series of prototype and development shots of the watch, which hit $1 million in backing within 28 hours. These images are sure to get the soon-to-be owners in the mood for their Pebble.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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