All signs point to 'no'. Not until its selected or produced. And this is not the forum for this.

Also, as people have pointed out in the past... patent protection costs much more than just the patent... as a patent is only as good as how much you intend on defending it.

I studied the for the patent bar... Once you post your idea or make public your idea it starts a clock. You have one year from this date to file a patent application. Otherwise you technically lose your rights. As far as whether anyone can copy your idea posted to Quirky, the answer is yes. At least you would have proof with your post of the date you posted it, if you were to file an application and someone else did as well, the patent office would then determine who was the first to invent and would be the one allowed the patent. However, this is unique to the US patent system. I just found out yesterday that the US is standardizing with the world standard of first to file an application starting in March of 2013. So in the future, if you see and idea on Quirky and are the first to file a patent application, you can technically steel this idea. Also in terms of how expensive a patent should be I have many. Don't ever pay more than $6,000 unless it is substantially complex. The patent office gets around $2,000 in fees. The patent attorney get around $2,000 to write the application and file it and the firm they work for get $2,000. I know this first hand. I paid has high as $15K and got ripped off for crappy patent work. I know get mine for $4,000 because my patent attorney does them outside of his day job. I hope this helps.

@Kevin, as I understand the new law the U.S. would still have a 'first to publish' provision.
 
This means that once you make your invention public it will count as 'prior art' for everyone except for you. This is different than Europe in which it would be prior art for everyone, period. But the one year clock still ticks.
 
The problem they tried to fix with the law was removing the burden of proving who 'invented first' figuring out who 'published first' is much easier.

The moral of the story is, if you think of filing a patent application and have money to do it. Do that first and then post it here or elsewhere. A patent even if granted will be worthless to you unless you are willing to sue a lot of people to protect your property. If someone steals your car, cops get involved. If some company rips off your IP, it is all on you to chase them.

NO! You can not protect an idea.....That being said you have 12 months to get the patent filed from the day you expose it on quirky, but that means you can not get a patent from any other country due to their first to file / no disclosure laws.....

Guys and Gals!

Protect your inventive ideas BEFORE you submit to Quirky! You do this with a Provisional Patent Application with the USPTO! It only costs $125 and is easy to do.

And NO... You do NOT NEED a lawyer.. It was designed to be EASILY done.. Go to YouTube and search Provisional Patent Video Course and see some suggestions!

If links work see this..
http://provisionalpatentvideo.com/

To see the top 10 reasons to file a Provisional Patent Application please watch the second video in this blog.
http://www.filepatentapplications.com/blog/