Posts Tagged ‘watt time’

  • Thu, Sep 3 2009

    Our Latest Quirk

    By nikki at 11:45 am

    We are pleased to announce the newest member of the quirky team. We’ve scooped Brian Kerr out of the community! You might remember him, the guy behind Watt Time? Well, he definitely stuck out as an all star quirky community member and contributer. We were cranking hard on our end and in need of another designer. Thankfully, Brian was excited to get started and is now a full time member of the quirky team.
    Brian Kerr

    Even though he’s gone from two of the most despised social classes of the rest of the quirky team (he’s gone from Hippie to Hipster (New Hampshire –> Brooklyn))… we are super happy to have scooped Brian Kerr out from the quirky community. He studied painting and design at UNH and received his masters in Industrial Design from Pratt. Brian is enamored by folding bicycles, tea, coffee, and all of their overly designed brewing paraphernalia. BK from BK spends his days and nights knee deep in styrofoam prototypes– and often sprays the shavings everywhere when he taps violently on the table because he misses his snare drum. This episode of meet the team brought to you by Designers like Brian and viewers like you… (read: Brian loves NPR)

  • Tue, Aug 25 2009

    watt New York, NY, August 25, 2009 — Today marks the official release of Watt Time – a community designed, light bulb shaped alarm clock.

    Watt Time is such a great design that you may be convinced to stop using your smart phone’s alarm clock. Put down your iPhones and Blackberrys people, here’s an alarm clock that’s cool enough to use!

    Watt Time is constructed out of high gloss plastic that allows the digital time display to shine through the bulb’s outer shell. A bright blue LED display illuminates the time and date at the base of the bulb. The design includes an easily accessible snooze button located on top of the bulb’s socket end so you can get those “5 more minutes” with a simple tap on the bulb. If the alarm sound is not enough to wake you, you also have the option of setting the bulb to illuminate when your alarm goes off.


    Fear not, we’ve placed all set buttons discretely on the back of the bulb so as not to interfere with Watt Time’s overall simplicity and iconic design.

    Watt Time is the eighth product designed and developed by the quirky community since quirky’s launch on June 2nd. quirky gives everyone the chance to get product ideas out of their heads and onto shelves. Each week quirky’s community collaborates to select and produce one new product idea. This week ends the development of Watt Time and it is now available for sale at quirky’s online store for $24.99.

     
    To view the full press release, click here.