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Totem is moving into production! Our retailers are confident in the product. Take a look at it in the Upcoming Section and help us determine the price, by playing the Pricing Game. Congratulations to Seung Jun Jeong and all of the 632 community members that helped influence the product!
Every Wed at noon ET, QDS blows a few product ideas wide open to kick off the design process. You can take part in that. Here’s how: 1. Topics will be posted on Mon before the Wed brainstorm sesh. In your wildest dreams, what would be the perfect way to make that product? What should it do, and what problems should it prevent? It’s a brainstorm, so anything goes. 2. Visit the Quirky Brainstorm Channel at noon ET on Wed. Log in on Ustream and throw ideas at us in the live chat. 3. Can’t join the live brainstorm? Be sure to add your comments here before Wed at noon, and we’ll have them in mind. Got all that? Great. This week’s topics are: -Easy Window Washer -Slim Toaster
From their separate lives and different inventive backgrounds all across the country, assemble an unlikely team of an entrepreneur from California, a professor from Missouri, a nanny from Massachusetts and a firefighter from Florida. They are Sonia Covarrubias-Garcia, Matthew Murrie, Barbra Winston, and Justin Turnbo who came together to right that which is wrong with current squeegees and to better the world with their development of the perfect window cleaner. With their powers combined, they are TeamLab. The Quirky team was intrigued by their concept of an all-in-one window cleaner. The idea incorporates a squeegee that works in all directions with a swiveling head and expanding arm to clean those hard to reach and o Read More...
Get into some hardcore pour! Duo is an ergonomic pitcher that makes it painless to pass beverages around the dinner table. The twin spouts can be held like handles. Hand Duo off to a neighbor without losing your grip and risking any spills. A recess in the bottom of the pitcher provides a handhold so you can pour to the last drop. Philip Murphy knew how frequently pitchers were spilled and broken in the restaurant industry. To fix this once and for all, he dreamed up a container with dual spouts and handles. Enter Quirky’s designers and a community of +109 influencers. Check out Duo in the Upcoming section now! Features: -Two spouts/handles large enough to accept ice cubes -Recessed bottom for pouring -Hand washable Material Read More...
Happy Thanksgiving. Cyber Monday brings a new quirky shop, as well as some exciting changes to our pre-sale process. We’re excited about the upgrades and look forward to your feedback!
In our constant effort to keep quirky’s T&C’s up to date, here’s the changes that end up this morning. A full redlined document of the changes can be found here (.doc). 1) removal of presale threshold concept - see previous post on new site changes. 2) introduction of direct-response marketing based sales as an additional basis for 10% royalty to users- Quirky plans to start testing direct response marketing (infomercials, etc)- Due to the expense associated with this, we think it is fair to consider sales associated with this among the 10% (retail royalty) vs the 30% (website royalty). 3) an IP auction is no longer mandatory if an idea submitter does not exercise the option to acquire th Read More...
Grip it and rip it! Every cheesemonger’s new secret weapon is Grip Grater. And it’s shipping right now. Inventor and designer Jim Young shared a little Grip Grater backstory with us. Read on for the ‘deets. 1. Tell us a little bit about yourself. I’m an independent industrial designer living outside Seattle. I’ve been married eighteen years to my high school sweetheart and I have three adventurous boys. I left the nine-to-five world three years ago to start my own design consulting company and work on my own products. Design is my passion, livelihood, and hobby; but family comes first. When I’m not working on projects you’ll catch me volunteering in my community or ou Read More...
Put some class in your closet and some couture in your armoire. Contour, the versatile hanger, is now shipping. Inventor Tracie Beer spoke with us about the creation of Contour, why Lucky Charms rule, and why she thinks Ben should wear superhero tights. 1. Tell us a little bit about yourself. I am a single mother of two amazing children. I live in Long Island, NY and I run my own Interior Design Firm. 2. When did you join Quirky? I joined Quirky about a year and a half ago and it was one of the best decisions I’ve ever made! 3. How did you find out about us? Actually, a friend told me about it six months prior to me actually submitting my idea. I thought the site was cool but thought I might be able to ex Read More...
In the rush of the holidays we mistakenly sent out order confirmations for Converge at the $60 price point. We are pleased that the final retail price for Converge will be $40, and that it will be available at national retailers beginning next week. To those who confirmed their order at the $60 price point, we will be issuing automatic refunds over the course of the next two weeks.
Hey Quirks! Hope everyone had a festive Thanksgiving. Here are the results of this Wed’s brainstorm (click images to enlarge): Product 209: Measuring Knife Product 214: Grippy Tongs Product 215: Reinvented Matches
Winter is coming. But you’ll be ready when you wield the mighty Thor: the dual-blade ice scraper that’s shipping now! Inventor Jim Johnstone was kind enough to answer our usual grueling gauntlet of questions. Take a peek and find out more about how this powerful product came to be. 1. Tell us a little bit about yourself. I live in Urbana, IL; home of the University of Illinois and my alma mater. I have a motorcycle with a side car and a ’66 Mustang which is eagerly awaiting restoration. I’m the divorced father of two grown children. I work as a mechanical/production engineer and have been in that field for 30+ years. I have dabbled as an inventor since college and have worked on projects s Read More...
Product Updates: Shipping/On Sale: Verseur, Converge; Now in Production: Steeper Keeper, Hydroduo; Now for Presale: Pod Power, Toob, Catch Community Liaison Updates (Beta): Because information moves fast at Quirky, and via many channels, you can now subscribe to email updates (sent every couple of days). You will get a digest of the highlights from the Forums, Twitter, Get Satisfaction, etc. (Note: there will still be a weekly Community Liaison Report posted in the Forum and on the Blog). Start signing up here. Community Service: Four new reps hired, the search for Head of Community Kicking off, and Shirley is no longer with Quirky. Read more and discuss in this forum thread. Oldest Sort: Folks have been recen Read More...