Would you be willing to install a live web cam in the design studio? If not, why?

With the new design brief, will the end product need to be less than $150 retail?

I would like to see who is awarded influence (and how much) from the evaluation phase and if it is awarded after final design, especially when changes occur after industrial design is complete. We don't get to see where the benefit of our input pays off.

Since you are considering letting us vote on features of a product we like, which influences our votes, the member who suggested them should also get recognition and we should see what it translates to in earned influence as well.

Can this be added to the list at each phase?

If a product needed the addition of an (iPhone) application to make it work is that off the table?

What are your current capabilities in designing electronic products?

I think your current most complex products are weigh to go, and the clock products. I see a lot of submissions that I wouldn't think Quirky would actually undertake, such as products with Bluetooth, Speakers, fm transmitters, etc. I'm confused because I would think these products would get rejected before the evaluation process if they weren't viable.

Thanks.

What kind of products do you expect to have the most success with?

A) Product a huge market could use (Splash Stacks, Boil Buoy, Waffler)
B) Appeals to a very targeted market (Cloak, Power Curl)

Brief based challenges. Are the topics determined by retailer requests or are they Quirky directed?

Has Quirky determined what they plan on doing for products still stuck in presale for over a year? Some products could possibly reach threshold with a materials or small tweak revisit to lower the price point.

1. What marketing efforts can be expected for each product (pre-sales, too, of course)? I've noted before that Keiro doesn't seem to have gotten any real marketing love, so I'm curious if it's different efforts for each product or this one just hasn't generated interest.

2. As we find ourselves with 140+ idea submissions this week, what, if any, plans is Quirky making to control or handle the growing submissions? As an example, Quirky might break off submissions into categories when we get over 100 for a week or just start doing that every week or something. This applies to the growing number of submissions for names, tag lines, etc.

1. At some point (which might be now) there must be maximum number of submissions per week before things get ugly.
Can we hold the submissions to 100? And raise the price to $49 so people will think twice about submitting that is not very doable?

2. There shouldn't be any form of design or industrial firms, corporations, LLC's, etc. competing here. This would be business to business and not fair in anyway since they would have a major advantage and would shut out everyone going forward.

So What is quirky doing to be be more fair and open in the way community members compete for Logo Design and industrial design?

3. The voting system is not working! Whats the point of the voting process when you (Quirky) will do what you did with product 60?
And what is so exciting about hangers that already exist that would make you (Quirky) push the nuclear button and wipe out everything we voted for?

As several may have already stated... 148 submissions are overwhelming. Next, it will be 250, then 500. We need to consider limits and/or raising the cost. As you've stated in the past, you didn't want people submitting a "time machine". Well I haven't seen that yet but, "a vibrator lube dispenser"? LOL

I would appreciate if you can put every day a schedule of upcoming events - announcing new phase, winner etc.

What are your thoughts on adjusting the amount of ideator influence when the idea submission is very basic? For example, "let's make a cooler, quirky pair of pants" -- without any actual original idea, research, or graphics to convey the "invention".

Also, could you comment or expand on any ideas to implement a filter? Ann Marie had suggested this in the Get Satisfaction forum. The main idea being able to click a button with something to the effect of "please hide this [idea/comment/user/etc.]".