In our latest trip into the Crowded Room, we discuss a Kickstarter campaign for a gadget to make the world smarter, but what about security? Also, crowdsourcing an avalanche of documents tied to the 1989 Hillsborough disaster, new schwag for a new iPhone and keeping track of every murder in Washington, D.C. for a year. Finally, what’s the best college according to the crowd? Listen to the podcast to find out.

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Links to projects discussed in the Crowded Room:

• Smart Things: Another million dollar project.
• The crowd looks over the documents behind a disaster at Hillsborough
• On the Homicide Watch in D.C. - crowdfunding crime journalism.
• Quirky enlists designers for new Apple accessories.
• An Indie film turns Indiegogo into a RedBox.
• Crowdranked colleges.
• Buy the Tee, get the album free.
• An adventure game in MS Paint.

Listen to the previous episode of The Crowded Room here.

Our "From the Crowd" podcast, featuring interviews with crowdsourcing newsmakers, can be found here.