Quirky

How often do you find yourself (or a friend) asking the question, ‘I wish I had a product that did this?’ or ‘I wish this product would just do this?’ Quirky has created a social design platform that allows any online user to easily contribute ideas to create new and better products, all in a fast, easy and fun (and rewarding) way. Quirky is reinventing consumer product R&D with materially faster time to manufacturing and retail outlets. Since its founding in 2009, Quirky has launched more than 200 products (including its top-sellers Pivot Power, Cordies and Crates) and more than 250,000 people have contributed to the development of these products and the pace of product launches and number of contributors is accelerating. In addition, Quirky has paid out more than $2 million to its inventors and contributors.