Quirky Articles on TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog

Quirky's Crossover: finally, a truly unique iPhone 5 case

by Steven Sande (Feb 7th, 2013)

As you're probably aware, TUAW does a lot of reviews of iPhone cases. To be honest with you, most of the cases don't really catch my attention anymore. But this morning I got an email from crowdsource design firm Quirky about the Crossover (US$34.99), and it's so completely different that I had ...

Credit card-sized stylus in the works at Quirky

by Steven Sande (May 24th, 2012)

Quirky is a design shop that uses ideas from a crowd of contributors and influencers to create new products. In the past, it's come up with some incredibly useful Apple-related accessories like the US$12.99 Power Curl, which has made its inventor almost $80,000 in royalties. Now the company is ...

TUAW review and giveaway: Quirky Beamer iPhone case

by Steven Sande (Jul 2nd, 2010)

We're starting off the Independence Day holiday with a bang -- a giveaway to one lucky TUAW reader of the Quirky Beamer iPhone case for the iPhone 3G and 3GS. Before you enter the contest, however, I'm sure you'd like to know what makes the Beamer different and how it works. That's the purpose of ...

Get a Quirky Beamer for your iPhone (hint: it's not a car)

by Steven Sande (Nov 9th, 2009)

TUAW has introduced several Quirky projects to you in the past. Quirky is a community of folks who come up with really cool ideas, and then the best of the ideas are fine-tuned by the folks who run the site and readied for manufacturing. Once a minimum number of customers commit to buy the product, ...

PowerCurl: A quirky way to wrap up your MagSafe Power Adapter

by Steven Sande (Sep 12th, 2009)

quirky is a design firm with a difference. Rather than pay a brain trust to sit around and think up product ideas, they let average Anns and Andys submit designs that are then refined and named by a community of site visitors. When designs are ready for production, quirky sets a threshold number of ...