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See Ben Speak @ The CADD Northeast Tour!

If you are looking to sharpen your industrial design skills, you DO NOT want miss this opportunity.

The program features a bunch of great courses, plus you get to hear Ben talk about Quirky. What’s not to love??

There are 5 stops on the tour (click the link below for details), but Ben will be only be speaking at the NYC stop on October 7th.

Be one of the first 100 to sign up and you get in FREE, get a FREE t-shirt and, get an opportunity to win a FREE iPad. Who knows, maybe Ben will feel generous and throw in a Cloak to the lucky winner…

Click Here To Sign Up!

Introducing… Splash Stacks!

Make bathing a breeze while saving your knees with Splash Stacks, now available for a pre-sale price of $34.99 (retail: $39.99) with a threshold of 980 units in the Quirky store.

Remember: community members can earn influence by purchasing in pre-sales, so if you believe in this product enough to commit to it, you can earn a share of the 25 percent up for grabs!

Save your knees at bathtime with Quirky’s Splash Stacks, a convenient bathside cushioned mat. Kneeling on linoleum or tile can really hurt, and leaning on the side of a tub ain’t any better. Splash Stacks lets you sit or kneel in total comfort while bathing your young ones.

Splash Stacks features:

- Water-proof foam cushions that cover both the floor and side of the bathtub.

- Three main padded sections to cushion any surface, from tile to concrete.

- Folds easily into a secure, compact unit that can easily be transported using the built-in handles.

$10 Idea Submissions Kick Off Today!

Have a great idea, but lack the $99 to submit it to Quirky? Well, the days of forking over big bucks to give your product a chance to be produced are long gone.

That’s right, as we announced in last week’s Town Meeting, we’re slashing the submission fee for new product ideas from $99 to just $10, starting with submissions for Product 0059.

“But wait!” you say. “Why would Quirky go and do something doggone crazy like that?”

The answer is simple. We are in the business of bringing the best product ideas to market, and we realized that the $99 fee was getting in the way of surfacing those ideas. We have high hopes that this price cut will increase both the quantity and quality of ideas submitted.

And that’s not the only change. You’ll also note that this week you’ll have not two, but NINE days for product evaluation. That’s a full additional week to vote, rate, and comment on all the great ideas in the running to be Quirky’s next product.

Remember: we’re counting on you to help us identify this week’s top 5 ideas. Don’t let us down; vote for what you truly believe are the best product ideas.

To product 58!

Pivot Power Goes Off For Preliminary UL Review

How freaking cool is this?

Quirk Of The Week: Stephen Markas!

Remember our Town Meeting and the sad social sales stats that when along with it? Well, don’t look at community member Stephen Markas. Kudos to him for being Quirky’s highest social seller and quite appropriately, this week’s Quirk of the Week! The social media extraordinaire has apparently been singing our praises with referral numbers nearing 25,000. And he’s certainly got the social sales revenue to prove it. Thank you spreading the Quirky love, Stephen, we think you’re pretty stellar too.

Trek Support Logo Inspiration

It’s time again for a lil’ inspiration, this time for the logo design project for Trek Support.

This project is all about integrating electronics into something wearable. The images shown focus on mixing hard and soft material, displaying technology in an exciting way, and color pops that bring your attention to the right details.

Good luck!

Quirky Town Meeting #3

Missed today’s Town Meeting? Don’t worry… we recorded it for your viewing pleasure. See how thoughtful we are?

Wanna Influence A Panel At SXSW?

Here’s your chance. Ben will be joining Jay Rogers (CEO of Local Motors) and a list of awesome insiders to propose a panel called How Online Communities Co-Create Complex Real World Products at next year’s SXSW Interactive/Music/Film week.

The panel will talk about how companies are bringing concepts to life through collaborative development. Panelists will be discussing how to nurture ideas so that together, people can come up with cool ways of making them real. I know what you’re thinking — right up our alley!

So far, the following folks have signed on to join Ben and Jay on the panel:

David Ten and Derek Halley (Co-Founders of Ponoko)

Chris Anderson (Editor, Wired Magazine and Founder, DIY Drones)

Phil Borchard (VP Sales, Catia)

Dale Dougherty (Editor, Make Magazine)

Kickin’ line-up, right?

But to make it happen, we need you guys to share your thoughts and vote our panel onto the agenda. SXSW is a community-driven event, so they’re looking online to decide which topics should be covered.

Join the community and cast your vote here!

Research Notes On Product 55

Industrial Design for Product 55 is in full swing! Jeremy, one of our veteran design interns, explains the research process for this product and gives a bit of insight on one way to look at voting for this round.

Now it’s time to put your thinking caps on, and help us find a great solution to this everyday problem. You’ve got one more day!

Quirky Town Meeting, Numero Tres

Heya folks!

It’s that time again. We’re preppin’ for our third-ever live Quirky Town Meeting tomorrow at 6PM EST. Join us on uStream for updates, laughs, some shocking announcements, and answers to all of the questions that have been burning a hole in the back o’ your heads.

The details:

Tomorrow (Thursday)

6PM EST

The Quirky Town Meeting Channel on uStream

Don’t forget to post your questions and concerns on the forum before tomorrow. We’ll try to address as many of ‘em as possible!

P.S. This event is BYOB.