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3D printing and the future of product design: Inside Quirky


The short of is that Quirky has a business model based on crowdsourced product ideas. An inventor submits a product concept to Quirky's Web site, where it goes through various phases of community-suggested refinement. Eventually Quirky's own designers vote on a user-submitted, community-honed idea to bring into production. Everyone involved, from the inventor to the participating community members to, of course, Quirky, gets a piece of the revenues from the final product sales.

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posted by: Rob Alek

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