Tech Story of David vs. Goliath starring : @binarystarrap @ScottWilsonID @Griffintech @kickstarter

Gonna get a little abstract here... but hopefully you'll follow along.  

So I was listening to a song from Binary Star (if you enjoy hip hop check them out)   and this chorus for whatever reason made me think of this random post.

Here's the chorus:

All we need is beats, and rhymes and go and spark it
As long as we got the underground, yo, we got a market
I don't need an agent to tell me how to run it
Cause my goal's to win the Indy 500

Here's why: In case you have your head under a rock apple has made yet another kick ass, well designed product in the iPod Nano, which can easily serve as a watch.   So some very creative folks over at Minimal Studios created the LunaTik and TickTock thru funding from KickStarter... another group of talented and creative folks.  KickStarter, if you head isn't buried, but your're not a techno weenie like me, is a website that funds "creative" projects in a very unique, all or nothing, way.  You should check it out too! 

 

Anyway... here's where I get a little abstract.  This chorus is about underground hip hop and their struggle to make it without the "big labels" or majors is what I think they call them.

Hold on now.... here's where we get a little weird...

So Scott @ Minimal is a super creative dude that saw a mouse trap and decided to make it better.   He's a little guy, but was smart and got his project off the ground thru KickStarter (in fact to date, his project is the most successful in terms of dollars raised)

So on to Griffin:  Griffin's been in the iPod accesory game since, well, there were iPods.  So I'm not taking any cred from them.  But when I saw them release the "Slap", a Nano watch holder, @ CES (for $24.99 no less)  I thought...."Well there you go..... Goliath has come to play"  

I looked up when Griffin announced their product (11/16/10) and looked at the funding for Lunatik (12/16/10) so who's to say who came first.  

But I really hope that Griffin doesn't come in and just oblierate Scott or the dudes @ MNML 'cause this type of "underground" innovation and creativity is what fuels dreams and passions.  Griffin could afford to stop making the slap tommorow and never skip a beat,  however, this could be Scott's victory lap @ the Indy 500.