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Other rivals include US firm Pebble, which has taken more than $17m of pre-orders on crowdfunding website Kickstarter for its new Pebble Time smartwatch.

Smartwatches are a hot field because of mounting expectation that Apple will introduce its own at some point in the coming months – though the best established company at present is the Californian firm Pebble, which has sold more than 85,000 of its eponymous $150 smartwatches.

Jan Dawson, chief analyst at Jackdaw Research, a technology research and consulting firm, says that Pebble Time is still an anomaly.

Market intelligence firm International Data Corp. (IDC) figures that Pebble sold 1.8 million units last year, representing 8.6% of the global smartwatch market.

For Oculus Rift, crowdfunding was the springboard to giving the technology credibility again – as well as to further funding from venture capital firms in 2013, just like Pebble and Ouya.

Anglo American shareholders should understand, as they go into their annual general meeting, that we will stand firm in our opposition to the Pebble mine.

Fitbit, the publicly traded fitness tracker firm, confirmed it will snap up Pebble's "key personnel and intellectual property related to software and firmware development," but the acquisition excludes hardware.

They should feel plump and firm, but not hard as little pebbles.

Earlier this month, major mining firm Rio Tinto pulled out of the controversial Pebble mine project on the grounds that it didn't "fit with our strategy".

South Africa's Eskom is working with BNFL and Exelon, America's biggest nuclear-energy firm, to build a reactor using new "pebble-bed" technology.

For example, VCs and established firms had ignored the wearables category until Pebble's 2012 Kickstarter campaign broke all crowdfunding records, validating the concept by demonstrating market demand for the product.