This is a crowd funding campaign for an inexpensive FPGA board with a simpler HDL with an web IDE. I first heard about it at 30c3 (video links below) and I think it's a great starting point for everyone who always wanted to play around with FPGAs but found it too difficult or too expensive to get started.
More about the language: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5t7qO-RbqTw ; http://blog.pshdl.org/
Talk by author abouth FPGAs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Er9luiBa32k