More holiday service hour announcements! Thought we were done celebrating? Due to 2012 being around the corner and of course all the New Years celebrations, we will be shortening service hours tomorrow (12/31) to 5pm EST. If you miss us, leave us a message when you call or email us at questions@quirky.com.
We will get back to you and all your invention needs on Tuesday bright and early at 8am to resume normal service hours.
Have a wonderful New Years! We’re looking forward to an immensely successful 2012 with you!
Ladies, are you tired of your dresses scraping the floor when you hang them? We hear you. Presenting Swoop, the all-in-one solution to keep your dresses from hanging low on your closet floors. This special hanger is designed with numerous features to keep your dresses properly hung and will eliminate the build up of dirt and dust from the bottom of your closet. With an incorporated stainless steel hanger wire and an attached EVA foam roll to eliminate wrinkling, hanging dresses has never been more efficient and clean.
Libra Johnson was tired of her dresses hanging low and scraping the floor and she realized that there were no products out there to solve this issue. So she came up with a clever solution to solve that problem in a truly inn Read More...
One of the winning ideas this week was a hairbrush with retractable bristles that is easy to clean. This idea was submitted in one form or another by three different users (that we know of), which means that we have to make a judgment as to who is the original inventor.
We have decided that the winning idea is Vicky Laursen’s (http://www.quirky.com/ideations/145817). The reason for our decision is that Vicky’s (original) idea was posted first chronologically, and the idea was active at the time of selection. The other two ideators (http://www.quirky.com/ideations/133330 & http://www.quirky.com/ideations/144164) will still be eligible to gain influence in the upcoming concept round, in which more infl Read More...
These boots are made for hanging! Stop throwing your boots on the floor with the rest of your shoes. Cubby is a storage product with six compartments for your boots. Place your boots up in the compartments to save on that precious floor space while keeping them in shape with our flexible plastic slip-ins for your boots. Cubby stores up to six pairs of boots and is also collapsible to shorten the length of the rack to save space when not in use. Let Cubby protect and store your boots.
Tammy Maddrey accumulated a collection of boots, but soon space became a limited commodity and she found herself tucking boots in the dark corners of her closet. To fix this once and for all, she dreamed up a product that allows her to hang her boots in Read More...
Happy Holidays, Quirks! Here are the results of the most recent brainstorms (click images to enlarge):
Product 218: 3-in-1 Bike Lock
Product 220: Collapsible Travel Mug
Product 222: Cardboard Connectors
Product 223: Vertabin Kitchen
Recently, we put the stamp on HydraDuo that said “We’re Making It!”. Over a year has gone by since the product was designed and we have decided to revisit it. The new design reduces the amount of plastic, increases functionality, and makes it more aesthetically pleasing. The HydraDuo now includes two refillable plastic chambers held together with a thermoplastic rubber waist band and two removable leak proof mouth pieces. Water and Gatorade? Apple juice and orange juice? Rum and Coke? Carry one and drink two with HydraDuo.
Check out the new CMF phase and help us determine the best possible colors, materials, and finishes for the HydraDuo.
Spread the word! Scoop is a measuring spoon that converts into a spreading knife. Use the spoon to scoop the perfect amount of peanut butter, sour cream, mayo, butter, or cream cheese. Scoop’s living hinges fold down flat, so you can smear your schmear evenly or drop ingredients right into a bowl.
Patty Lovell wanted to measure out perfect portions of peanut butter, but felt there were too many tools and too much hassle involved. She combined the measuring cup and spreading knife into one streamlined solution. With the help of the Quirky Design Staff and over 466 influencers, Patty’s great idea is now a great product. Feast your eyes on Scoop in the Upcoming section now!
Features:
– Living hinge allows quick s Read More...
We are going to begin issuing social sales make up rewards in the next 48 hours. These rewards are to address lost referrals from flaws that existed in the system between 10/20/2010 and 7/7/2011 that caused some orders not to be attributed to valid referrals. The make up amount for each user will be $.01 per referral attributed to that user during the period between 10/20/2010 and 7/7/2011. This amount is 2x the value of the average referral. Thank you very much for your patience while we worked through this tricky issue.
Additionally, in the next 30 days, we will be rolling out a new referrals system that rewards Quirky users for signing up new users, in addition to rewarding for marketing Quirky products. This system will be more simple, and should be far more lucrative to Quirky users.
Now that the holidays are upon us, and you’ve finally finished your frantic shopping (or if you haven’t, Quirky.com offers overnight shipping!) let’s take a look back at the beginning of the holiday shopping season.
On Black Friday, forty-seven intrepid Quirky community members took to the streets to spread the word about Quirky to bargain-hungry shoppers, who were eagerly waiting to trample each other to get doorbuster deals at countless retail stores nationwide.
Armed with a stack of 500 idea submission cards (as seen above), a Quirky t-shirt and their personal experiences, our volunteers were tasked with getting as many people interested in Quirky as p Read More...
Ben will be hopping on Quirky’s uStream channel tonight (Wednesday) at 5:30pm EST for a live Q&A session. Now’s your chance to ask all the questions you’ve been dying to have answered… and if you know Ben, you know that everything’s fair game.
If you’ve got questions you want answered, add them to the comments on this blog post, or this thread in the forum.
To recap:
What: Ben answering all your deepest, darkest questions
When: Tonight, 5:30pm ET
Where: Quirky’s uStream channel
See you then!
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 topic is:
-VertaBin for the Kitchen
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