Tea-drinkers rejoice! Steeper Keeper is a mug that elegantly captures pesky bag tags, and it’s now priced to sell at $8 (MSRP: $10) in the Quirky store. Threshold is 815 — buy yours today.
Steeper Keeper is a ceramic mug specifically designed for tea-lovers, with a slotted handle to hold your tea bag in place.
Features:
- Simple design.
- 10 oz capacity.
- No hooks, snaps, or extra parts – just run the bag string through the integrated slot and secure the paper tag under the handle.
Steeper Keeper will initially be manufactured in classic bone white, with a contrasting caramel interior. But once it’s a hit, the graphic design possibilities are endless!
Pivot Power just hit threshold, in a rapid-fire FOUR DAYS. Wahoo!
The blogs are loving this product. Some choice quotes:
We think Quirky, the “social product development company” that relies on crowdsourcing for its design and engineering teams, may have their first mass-market hit on their hands… — Core77
The community-driven Quirky website has already managed to bring products like the Space Bar and DigiDude camera mount to market, and it’s now offering what may well be its most useful product to date: the Pivot Power strip. — Engadget
Ok, so this is legitimately great. Ninety percent of the stuff I write about… meh. It’s called the Pivot Power, and it’s a electrical outlet that changes shape, allowing you to snake it around corner, shoes, the giant Xbox 360 power supply, and other obstructions. Pretty amazing, this. — CrunchGear
… thanks to Quirky’s Pivot Power, you’ll no longer have to worry about turning into a rage filled maniac when you’re trying to plug in your gear, as they’ve designed a completely flexible power strip that assures that all of those horribly shaped power bricks don’t hog up all of the space … Awesome, right? Of course it is. My only question is, is why in the hell did it take until 2010 for something like this to be developed?! — Blast
Sometime my email brings me nothing but endless useless PR pitches, offers to talk with an “expert” on iPad cases or just the usual offers to help export $6 million worth of Viagra from Nigeria. I live through these for the occasional Perfect Storm, a product that makes my gadget-sense tingle, something which not only ticks, but tickles every box on my emotional gee-gaw checklist. Today is such a day. — Wired Gadget Lab
We just received a prettttty tricked out prototype of Click n Cook, our modular spatula system. The product page has been updated with the latest shots!
It’s hard not to be creatively invigorated in an ever-evolving world. And perhaps no New York museum exhibit encompasses that more than MoMa’s upcoming Counter Space: Design and the Modern Kitchen, which opens in September.
The exhibit will showcase a complete 1920′s “Frankfurt Kitchen,” among other design goodies, and promises to reveal more than just futuristic aesthetic appeal. MoMa notes:
“Kitchens have continued to articulate, and at times actively challenge, our relationship to the food we eat, popular attitudes toward the domestic role of women, family life, consumerism, and even political ideology…”
Like with all design innovation (or any other kind for that matter), there’s always something new to discover and explore. Our designers let themselves be influenced by the past while creating for the future. There’s no such thing as inspiration overload here at Quirky!
Hey fellow Quirksters!! My name is Diana and I’m the newest edition to the finance team at Quirky. I am extremely excited to be a part of such an awesome team. I am looking forward to getting to know everyone and learning something new every day.
Before joining the Quirky team, I handled business and financial management at various businesses in the restaurant, real estate, and fashion industries – all at the same time. I handled tenant and vendor relations, bookkeeping, and office operations – just to name a few. As you can probably tell, I can definitely be a workaholic! Now I’m settled in at Quirky. I’ll be working alongside Jovena — primarily managing the books and handling financials (among other things).
I love Quirky because it encourages creativity. Seriously, this is awesome!! As I mentioned earlier, I am ecstatic to be a part of such a talented team. I look forward to hearing all of your creative ideas and seeing Quirky grow!
I’ve had a few favorite forum topics in my time, but now there’s a new winner. No post has ever given me as much enjoyment as “You know you’re a Quirky addict when…” It’s just great to read about how Quirky has changed the way you think and act.
And trust me, the employees around here go through their own transformation and develop some, well, quirks of their own. Over the past three months (!) I think I’ve found a few common threads.
You know you’re a Quirky employee when:
- you’ve successfully explained the Influence Engine to a stranger at a bar.
- you can’t concentrate when Bertha isn’t running. The room feels empty without that sweet, sweet hum.
- you can’t find the office when Urban Outfitters switches their storefront banners.
- you’ve discovered new geometric shapes that can only be made from combining the components of four Cordies.
- your winter clothes aren’t in storage come June, they’re at your desk. Bertha likes it crisp.
- you proudly display a pink toothbrush and matching stand on your office desk and it’s not considered the slightest bit odd.
Laura’s been interning with our design team for a few weeks now. Though she’s a mechanical engineering major, she’s also proven that she can design and sketch with the best of ‘em. We’re excited to see what she cooks up this summer!
Name: Laura Daigneau
Hometown: Pittsburgh, PA
School: Dartmouth
What makes her quirky: I’m a vegetarian who studies philosophy and engineering and am planning on going to design school after I graduate next year. I am a die hard Steelers fan who used to give tours on the “duck” boats in Pittsburgh. I belong to a jewelers’ studio at school where I spend most of my free time hand-making silver pieces. I collect cool glass bottles and am trying to visit every art museum while in New York this summer.
Quirky’s latest product is electric… and we don’t just mean that literally. Pivot Power is now available in the Quirky store for a pre-sale price of $23 (MSRP: $25) with a threshold of 960. In the first few minutes of sales, we sold more than 20 units — a surefire sign of good things to come! Congrats to ideator Jake Zien and all the influencers who made this product happen. Now let’s sell this thing!
Reclaim your outlets with Pivot Power, an adjustable electrical power strip that flexes around furniture and corners to conserve space!
Features:
- Flexible form that bends into circular, semi-circular, and zig-zag shapes.
- Six outlet pods, which can be adjusted so that large power bricks don’t hog space.
- Surge protection, with an easy off/reset button.
We’re gearing up to launch Pivot Power (which we all adore), but I’d like to bring to your attention a few minor changes we’ll be making to the pre-sale phase on Quirky, beginning with today’s launch.
1. There will no longer be free shipping in the U.S. associated with pre-sale. Instead we will provide as aggressive a discount as we’re able to.
2. People that buy in pre-sale will be shipped a laser-etched version of the product, with the # of the unit that they committed to. (also known as awesome)
Remember: committing in pre-sale actually makes you money on every unit that ships, anywhere in the world… in perpetuity.
Your purchase immediately makes you an influencer in the product. By way of example, someone who committed to Cloak in pre-sale earned 0.038% influence in the product. They are all set to make close to half their money back on their purchase ($15.37), just by getting in early. Pretty soon, they’ll have gotten the Cloak for free (due to reward payments equaling their purchase price), and then it won’t be long until they’re in the green.
Getting in on pre-sale is powerful. Numbers with as many decimals as 0.038 sound really small. But once the product goes into distribution, and we start talking in terms of hundreds of thousands of units, we’re talking real money. Selling just 100,000 units of Cloak would net a participant in pre-sale nearly 500 dollars. Insane!
We realize that the site needs to do a better job of telling this story to stimulate more pre-sales… and we’re working on it.
