First, some impressive statistics: Over 2 billion backers from 90 percent of the world’s countries contributed to projects, for a pledge total of about $320 million. The category with the most funded projects was music, with 5,017, and the category that raked in the most money was games, with $83 million. Awesome Kickstarter projects from 2012 include an open source Geiger counter, an invention kit that can be used to (among other things) make a piano out of bananas, the world’s first pizza museum, and a civilian space suit. Check out the full retrospective here.
