Jun 18
Quirky might be the world leader in developing crazy kitchen contraptions
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May 19
The fragile nature of the traditional piggy bank was meant to force you to save your money until you really needed it, but it also meant you couldn’t count how much you already saved unless you break the thing open. Not so with the Porkfolio. It’s a smart piggy bank that can tell you how much money is inside it.
The Porkfolio was conceptualized by Quirky member Jason Hunter. The idea is to teach kids the basics of both saving money and online banking. When you insert a coin in Porkfolio’s belly, his nose will light up to indicate that it has recognized what coin you put in (though it only recognizes U.S. coins.) You will then use a companion mobile app to look at your balance and even set savings goals. But the app can do more than that.
According to Quirky, the app is the only legitimate way to open Porkfolio. If someone tampers with him or forces him open, the accelerometer inside him should detect the movement and alert you via the app.
There’s still no word on when and for how much Quirky will sell Porkfolio. Your current piggy bank is safe for now.
[via Quirky]
May 14
You won’t get XP or have your HP restored, but you will walk away with a full stomach and hopefully a fun time if you dine and drink at EXP Restaurant + Bar. It’s a video game-themed restaurant and bar in Vancouver, Canada that has various gaming elements installed and plastered all over the place, from huge screens featuring game footage to game memorabilia hanging on the walls.
In keeping with the theme, the food and drink menus are formatted and resemble online gaming leaderboards, while the name of the dishes and drinks themselves have a very game-y twist to them.
The must-try item on their menu? I’d say it’s the Triforce burger. For obvious reasons.
[via Geekologie]
Apr 17
Perfect for scrapbookers, teachers, or banking types who don’t think ‘rejected’ is a strong enough term, Quirky’s upcoming Pixit stamp lets you create a custom image or text by painstakingly setting a grid of pins into any design. More »
Apr 15
Quirky Partnership Democratizes the Invention of Internet-Connected Devices
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Introducing a new Internet-connected device to the masses just got easier thanks to a just-announced partnership between Electric Imp and inventor community Quirky.
Apr 10
Today, at an event in New York, GE announced that it will open up “thousands” of patents from its library of some 20,000 to inventors using Quirky’s crowdsourced product development platform. That means that if you’re bright enough, you can use a GE patent to invent something. GE will still collect royalties on your brain power, but they promise not to sue you. More »
Mar 21
Some people relieve their stress by popping bubble wrap. Others exercise their creativity and showcase their talent by creating portraits using bubble wrap. And by ‘others’, we mean artist Bradley Hart.
He probably had to buy rolls and rolls of the stuff and he clearly spent a lot of time working on his project. But I think his efforts paid off, because just take a look at what he made. This here is a bubble wrap portrait of Steve Jobs.
Not that you needed me to tell you, because you were probably able to recognize him on your own.
What Bradley did was fill syringes with certain colors of acrylic paint. He then painstakingly injected different colored paint into various bubbles on the huge sheet of bubble wrap to create his unique portraits.
Pixels on computer screens store our memories with social media platforms like Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. The process of injecting bubble wrap with paint in order to create one coherent picture, references pixilation as a combination of 1’s and 0’s that result in an image for us to consume.
Bradley’s What? Where? When? Why? How? series of bubble wrap portraits will be on display at New York’s gallery nine5 until March 26, 2013. Do drop by if you’re in the area.
[via My Modern Met via Dvice]
Mar 11
A Power Bar With a Removable Battery Charges Your Devices Wherever You Roam
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The addition of USB ports have made power bars even more useful as of late. And Quirky’s new Pickup Power promises to now make them almost indispensable with the addition of a large rechargeable battery that can continue to top off your mobile devices when you’re away from an outlet. More »
Mar 06
You finally finished washing a big load of dishes by hand, hurray! But if the water is so nasty that you can’t see to the bottom of the sink, the last thing you want to do is reach your hand in and pull out the stopper. Gadget to the rescue. More »
Feb 05
POOP Lamps Aren’t Crappy at All
Posted in: Today's ChiliI’ve seen some unusual lamps in my time, but I have to say this is the first time I’ve ever seen a lamp that’s designed to look like a dollop of poo. Yep, in this world of crazy, crowdsourced ideas, we officially have they quirkiest product to turn up on Quirky yet.
Designed by Diana Dumitrescu, the POOP lamp lets forth a lovely ambient glow from its soft and creamy pile. The USB-powered poo is made from a soft foam material which allows the warm glow from inside shine through. At this point, it looks like the POOP lamp will come in a somewhat unnatural orange color – unless you happen to eat a lot of carrots. Diana says it could be easily produced in other colors too. Just don’t make one in green, or with lumpy bits. Heck, if you made a white one, it would just look like whipped cream.
Besides looking like Japanese anime dookie, it’s actually a pretty clever lamp design, with a USB rechargeable battery and cool-burning, eco-friendly LED light source inside. Plus, it’s packed in a lovely can simply marked as “POOPINACAN.” How could you go wrong?
If you’re ready to put a steaming pile of poop on your desk, then head over to Quirky now and show your support for the project.
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