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Major Manufacturer To Let You Design New Gadgets

AP | Posted 04.11.2013 | Small Business
Read More: General Electric, Quirky GE, GE Quirky, General Electric Quirky, Quirky, Crowdsourcing GE, Ap, Quirky Crowdsourcing, What-Is-Working-Small-Businesses, Small Business News

NEW YORK (AP) — GE says it is licensing thousands of patents to Quirky, a New York City startup that lets people collaborate on designing household ...

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In Praise of Following Random Instincts

Sasha Cagen | Posted 03.26.2013 | Healthy Living
Read More: Traveling Alone, Digital Nomad, Following Your Dreams, Gut Instincts, Traveling, Soul, Desire, Quirkyalone, Travel, Quirky, Inner Conflict, The Inner Life, Spiritual Development, Healthy Living News
Sasha Cagen

In a rational culture like the United States where you are supposed to have a plan (and a retirement plan), it can feel countercultural to follow a quirky whisper, intuition or impulse.

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You Know You're in Kenya When...

Anne E. Collins | Posted 05.07.2013 | Travel
Read More: Kenya, Humor, Safari Travel, Africa, Honeytrek, Quirky, Slidepollajax, Travel Blogs, Travel News
Anne E. Collins

For every country we visit on our 500-day trip around the world, we like to capture all the charms and quirks that make a country so unique in our series "You Know You're in ____When..." but no country's oddball encounters have stood out more than Kenya.

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Keep on Truckin’: Our Favorite Innovative Food Trucks Across America (SLIDESHOW)

Posted 09.14.2012 | Home
Read More: Fast Food, Heart Burn, Short Rib, Slideexpand, Food Trucks, Bslide-Prilosec, Anthony Bourdain, Prilosec, Inventive, Tacos, Burritos, Munchies, Quirky, Innovative, Creative, Home News

Mobile munchies. Street eats. Whatever buzzphrase attributed to them, food trucks have quickly made their way beyond the nation’s biggest metro area...

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The Girl in the Plastic Bubble

Nikki Luongo | Posted 10.23.2012 | Healthy Living
Read More: Injuries, Quirk, Quirks, Klutz, Quirky, Injury, Injured, Klutziness, Healthy Living News
Nikki Luongo

We all have unusual quirks: obsessive hand washing, hair twirling, tilting your head to one side when you don't understand something, showering five t...

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Stem: The Spray-Nozzle For Your Fruit

Posted 08.31.2012 | Taste
Read More: Stem, Citrus Spray Nozzle, Lemons, Spray Nozzle, Timothy Houle, Quirky, Kitchen Gadgets, Citrus, Video, Taste News

This can't possibly work, right? And even if it does, is the citrus fruit not already nature's most perfect spray bottle? We suppose that if you are r...

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Annals of the Overrated: Zooey Deschanel

Marshall Fine | Posted 07.08.2012 | Entertainment
Read More: Elf, Zooey Deschanel, The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, Emo Phillips, The Glass Menagerie, Iphone 4, Laura Wingfield, Gallagher, Abby Elliott, New Girl, Saturday Night Live, Quirky, Gigantic, (500) Days of Summer, Yes Man, Your Highness, Entertainment News
Marshall Fine

Between her cloyingly unfunny sitcom, New Girl, and her ubiquitous iPhone 4 commercials, she's way overfulfilled my daily -- nay, annual or even lifetime -- recommended dosage of Zooey Deschanel quirk.

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Jason Gilbert

PHOTOS: The 8 Best Inventions From Quirky.com

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Gilbert | Posted 11.12.2011 | Technology
Read More: Inventors, Circular Power Strip, quirky.com, Pivot Power, Inventions, Best Quirky Products, Quirky, Best Quirky Inventions, Slidepollajax, Video, Technology News

Quirky.com is one of the best-case uses of the Internet out there today; it is, in my opinion, exactly the way that the Internet, with all of its crow...

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PHOTOS: 10 Most Romantic Films of All Time

Tiffany Shlain | Posted 11.29.2012 | Arts
Read More: Breakfast at Tiffany's, Amelie, Romance, Casablanca, Tiffany Shlain, Film, Classic, Before Sunrise, Officier and a Gentleman, Sunrise, Brokeback Mountain, Foreign, Slidepollajax, Princess Bride, Harold and Maude, Pain, Big & Indie, Sundance, Quirky, Valentine's Day, Love, Audrey Hepburn, Arts News
Tiffany Shlain

A recent evolutionary study on the large size of the human brain proposes that it did not grow for a greater capacity for knowledge, but for our great...

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Bob Kerrey Stands Behind Cornhusker Ben Nelson on Health Care Reform

Carol Felsenthal | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Read More: Run by the Government, Warren Buffett Offers Advice to Kerrey, Ben Nelson, Kerrey Would Have One System, Honest, Defends John McCain, What?S Next for Kerrey After New School?, No More Employer-Based Health Care, Bob Kerrey, Disagrees With Him on Almost Everything Regarding Health Care but Will Be Out Campaigning for Him, Quirky, Eccentric, No More Private Insurers, Kerrey, Politics News
Carol Felsenthal

I called former governor and senator of Nebraska, Bob Kerrey, to ask how he would have voted on health care reform if he were he still in the United States Senate today.

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