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This Smart Beach Bag Keeps The Sand Out Of Your Stuff

Every time you go to the beach, little grains of sand will inevitably follow you home. But thanks to a hidden mesh compartment, the genius Shake Bag keeps the sand on the shore where it belongs.

18 April 2013

Gadgets

Customisable Pixel Stamp Lets You Painstakingly Punch Out Any Design

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.

11 April 2013

Gadgets

GE Frees Up ‘Thousands’ Of Patents To Fuel Your Imagination

Today, at an event in New York, GE announced that it will open up about 1000 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.

13 March 2013

Gadgets

Power Bar With Removable Battery Charges Your Devices Wherever You Roam

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.

7 March 2013

Gadgets

Never Stick Your Hand Into Gnarly Dishwater Again

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.

26 January 2013

Gadgets

OXO And Quirky Are Fighting Over The Design Of A Dustpan

You know how when you’re sweeping with a broom and all those little dust bunnies get caught in your broom and you can’t get them out? Both OXO and Quirky have smartly designed products that solve the problem. They’re dustpans with little rakes. Genius! But now the two companies are getting all AppleSamsung over it. Update: Quirky responds.

18 January 2013

Gadgets

This Knife Squeegee Is The Most Brilliant Kitchen Gadget Ever

Everyone has a technique for cleaning every last bit of chopped food off a knife, but odds are it’s either damaging the blade or putting your fingers at risk. Quirky has come up with a better way: a simple clip-on attachment that slides down the blade wiping off everything in its path.

12 January 2013

Gadgets

Mouldable Sanding Blocks Are The Perfect Shape For Any Abrasion

Sanding blocks are fantastic labour-savers, but if you’re sanding ornate carvings, the sandpaper typically has to mould to your fingertips. Taking the idea of a malleable foam sanding block to the next level, these Sandables are made from a mouldable material so they can be reshaped to conform to any angle or curve.

27 April 2012

Gadgets

Quirky Stem Review: Stab A Fruit And Spray Its Juice

Sometimes a little lime or lemon juice is the perfect way to garnish a salad, accent a piece of fish or flavour a glass of ice water. Go to cut it, though, and you either blast citric acid in your eye or sprinkle seeds in your food. With Quirky’s Stem, getting a spritz is as easy as stabbing a spike into the fruit’s ripe flesh.

2 March 2012

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Fading Highlighter Makes Textbooks Easier To Sell

Selling your textbooks at the end of a semester to recoup some of their outrageous price tags could get even easier with Quirky’s Fader highlighter. After five months the yellow streaks will disappear completely, netting you top dollar for your pristine books.

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