With quirky, no longer will budding James Dysons have to move Down Under or enter humiliating reality TV shows, in order to bring their inventions to market.
Quirky is an “online social product development company”. For a non-refundable $99 fee, you get to submit an idea for a product that, if selected (by the quirky community, ostensibly), will be developed (again, by said community) and sold on the quirky website. Profits are distributed amongst the “influencers” according to their amount of input. Pictured is their first product, a cable storage case called… the Slingback.
We’ve all had our “Why Didn’t I Think of That?” moments, so if you don’t want to end up crying over missed billion-dollar opportunities, go on and show off your quirks. Who knows, your product might be gracing these pages sometime in the future.
