{"id":8969,"date":"2012-11-25T10:29:25","date_gmt":"2012-11-25T17:29:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept12\/?p=8969"},"modified":"2012-11-25T10:29:25","modified_gmt":"2012-11-25T17:29:25","slug":"bringing-product-ideas-to-life-quirky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept12\/2012\/11\/25\/bringing-product-ideas-to-life-quirky\/","title":{"rendered":"Bringing product ideas to life &#8211; Quirky"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"margin: 0px 0px 10px;font-size: 14px;color: #555555;font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, sans-serif;background-color: #ffffff\">As the course comes to a close, I just wanted to let people know about a really cool website for product ideas, it&#8217;s called <a title=\"Quirky\" href=\"http:\/\/quirky.com\" target=\"_blank\">Quirky<\/a>. Although specifically for consumer products, if the course stirred your interest in becoming a product entrepreneur, this is a great place to start. Or if you are just interested in new products, you can have a look at new ideas here and even get paid to give your feedback. Here is some info:<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 17px 0px;font-size: 16px;color: #000000;line-height: 22px\">For centuries, becoming an \u201cinventor\u201d has been a hard gig to crack. Complexities relating to financing, engineering, distribution, and legalities have stood in the way of brilliant people executing on their great ideas.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 17px 0px;font-size: 16px;color: #000000;line-height: 22px\">Since launching in 2009, Quirky has rapidly changed the way the world thinks about product development.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 17px 0px;font-size: 16px;color: #000000;line-height: 22px\">We bring two brand new consumer products to market each week, by enabling a fluid conversation between a global community and Quirky&#8217;s expert product design staff.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 17px 0px;font-size: 16px;color: #000000;line-height: 22px\">The world influences our business in real-time, and we share our revenue directly with the people who helped us make successful decisions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the course comes to a close, I just wanted to let people know about a really cool website for product ideas, it&#8217;s called Quirky. Although specifically for consumer products, if the course stirred your interest in becoming a product entrepreneur, this is a great place to start. Or if you are just interested in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11126,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[229],"tags":[602676],"class_list":["post-8969","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog-cafe","tag-product-ideas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept12\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8969","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept12\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept12\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept12\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11126"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept12\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8969"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept12\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8969\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8970,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept12\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8969\/revisions\/8970"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept12\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept12\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept12\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}