economist.com —
PEBBLE, a watch that displays messages from the wearer's iPhone, may not be a record-holder for long. The $10.3m raised last month from 68,929 people after Pebble's inventors posted a pitch on Kickstarter, a "crowdfunding" website, dwarfed the previous high of $3.3m set in March by Double Fine Adventure, a video game (see chart 1).