Suggest Ideas for Inventions to Post on Quirky
Quirky.com was just profiled in Parade magazine found in a lot of Sunday papers nationwide. It is a great website similar to IdeaOffer, in its emaphsis on idea innovation .
You pay $10 to post an idea for an invention to be made by the Quirky Team. They are already selling 55 or so of these inventions and work on the best of each week's batches of ideas. They get 50-100 ideas a week. Apparently after the crowd input improvements are done, the Quirky engineering team takes over to refine the design. Only if there are enough preorders of the item to justufy making it, do they actually manufacture it.
The system works though and there are some interesting innovative products. Designers have made thousands of dollars. There are several designers who have made more than $5000 and the site is only 18 months old. Another aspect is possibly the crowd influencers get a cut of the profits if design improvements they suggest make their way into the final product but don't ask me to explain this.
Anyway my challenge to you is to suggest in some detail, products for submission to Quirky. I will work with the winner and we will submit the item together with a 50-50 split of the profits if the product is eventually made. I will put up the $10 submission fee.
So put up your best invention ideas. I will submit one to quirky.com at no cost to you and you will get 50% of profits if the object is made.
I will tell you if I post your idea on Quirky. However, I think you might be able to follow me on Quirky. My user name there is socrtwo also. My profile there is: http://www.quirky.com/users/45428.
Education ruined me too :-(). Now I educate myself but the Jewish Bible says, the more you know the less happy you are...
I'm interested in language translator PDAs too. I agree eventually within a year or two you could fit 100 languages on one PDA and it could pronounce words for you and you could pronounce them back and then the machine could somehow correct your pronunciation, maybe only giving an audible ding if your pronunciation is passable.
The digital scale thing is great too. You have it in your shoes. You put the target in a connected wrist monitor. You go for a walk and it rings when you have reached your target weight, say loss of 6 ounces.
It should be a doable project right now.