Question

1. Think of the challenges in your own life that might represent a product idea for Quirky. If you don’t think of something right away, don’t give up. All of us encounter problems and challenges in our everyday lives that might represent the basis of a promising idea. Be prepared to describe to others one of the challenges or problems you encounter and how a solution to the problem could be fashioned into a product idea to submit to Quirky.

Answer 1

Quirky is a commercial platform that facilitates the invention of various new products based on the innovative and creative ideas of the users or individual contributors. Any independent contributor or user can submit his or her unique, innovative, and creative product ideas based on various aspects and dimensions of consumer convenience or regular quintessential needs and demands of general people. In this regard, Quirky basically creates and commercializes different products based on the innovative and unique ideas of various users or contributors in order to encourage and inspire various budding innovators and entrepreneurs to promote and potentially commercialize their product idea/s. It also generates commercial or economic value for the consumers or buyers as many of these products are primarily intended to provide and enhance the regular day to day convenience of general people with diversified demands, needs, and problems.

One of the major problems or issues faced particularly by domestic housewives and chefs in their regular day to day cooking activities includes convenient and timely cutting of the vegetables as for professional chefs and culinary staff in many hotels and restaurants, vegetable cutting can take a considerable amount of time especially while preparing meals under time-constraint when the guest is waiting for the food to be delivered and is in a hurry. This challenge or issue is further escalated by the fact that for different preparation there are specific and relevant types and shapes of cutting the vegetables. Now, domestic housewives also confront the physical and practical hassles manual vegetable cutting which can take significant physical effort and time as well. In this context, an automated or electronic vegetable cutter along with options of various types and shapes of vegetable cutting/chopping in accordance with the particular dish or preparation to be cooked can be a possible solution to the concerned problems faced by professional chefs and domestic housewives which can be recommended to Quirky. The vegetables have to be basically inserted into the cutter and multiple vegetables can be inserted at the same time with the maximum carrying capacity of 6 different vegetables. As an additional facility or convenience to the user, there would be an option to manually select the particular dish or preparation to be cooked such as Pasta, Biriyani, Stir Fry, Soup, Momo, and so forth. Among the option lists, some of the universally popular dishes would be mentioned and upon the specific selection by the user, the machine or the cutter would automatically cut the inserted vegetables based on the user preference or selection of the specific dish. This would essentially eliminate the physical hassle and considerable time consumption associated with manual vegetable cutting or chopping. The cutter would consist of various sizes or shapes of blades for the cutting purposes in accordance with the relevant dish/s and the entire machine would be operated by pressing electronic buttons similar to a microwave oven and there would be basically buttons would basically indicate or represent the various the respective dishes and a start and stop button. The user would have to initially press the start or on button and then insert the relevant vegetables into the machine and then subsequently select the concerned dish or preparation to be made and the machine would automatically cut the vegetables on the basis of the culinary preference or selection of the user. This electronic vegetable cutter would be operated by eco-friendly disposable batteries which would have an average operational life of almost 6 months implying that the battery has to be replaced nearly twice a year and the entire machine would be sold for a complete money-back or refund guarantee/warranty period of 1 year in case of any potential technical defect/disrepair and customer dissatisfaction occurring within the specified guarantee/warranty period.