A wire harness designed through quirky.

quirky, a new social networking site formed around product development, is asking for $99 for a good one.  But instead of bland feedback from someone willing to hand over the lowest denomination of coin for your ideas, Quirky is promising something more valuable, unleashing your product concept to (they hope) will be the social media masses.

The Washington Post delves a bit deeper, noting that:

The product is pre-sold at the quirky online store. Once the product hits a pre-sales threshold, credit cards are charged, and the product graduates to production and delivery. $0.30 of every dollar generated from the sale of a quirky product goes back to the creators, and the people who voted, commented, and rated the project idea along the way, giving the community an incentive participate and engage in each product's development. The creators are given $0.12 of that $0.30.

That may not sound like a prime deal to some people.  But I remember coming up with the concept for Dijon mayonnaise several years before the product Dijonaise started showing up in supermarkets everywhere.  That would now constitute many pennies for my thought, had I done anything with it of course.

Above is a universal wire retractor, which was dubbed the Sling Back, that includes a cord retraction system that can spool up and dispense up to 3 feet of cable. Quirky says it has 103 of the 500 pre-orders it needs to bring this concept to market reality.