As inventions go, Jake Zien’s was a clever fix rather than an imaginative breakthrough: Irritation was the mother of his invention. He found the standard power strip maddening because electr... Read more
Quirky, a start-up that now fields 4,000 new product ideas a week, picks three winners and then takes over all aspects of production, from making blueprints to marketing the goods through b... Read more
Move over, Daily Deals and Flash Sales, “Crowdsourcing” is now the biggest fad in ecommerce. Sites in which members invent, design, curate and market products for the marketplace... Read more
GE and invention lab Quirky teamed up in May 2012 to crowdsource ideas for a new appliance. The result is a smart milk container called MilkMaid. The appliance measures milk pH to alert the... Read more