Musician Neil Young has shattered his $800,000 Kickstarter goal set up to_fund production of a new portable music player called the_Pono. Running for the last month, the campaign has managed to raise many multiples of_its goal and ended at an impressive at $6.22 million. The result is that the first units will start shipping out for delivery starting in October this year, depending on the level of pledge – some won’t be sent out until December. Young started the campaign to “revive the magic that has been squeezed out of digital music”, and it clearly resonated with the more than...

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