I stumbled across a fantastic website today called Quirky.

Not only did can you find some great and handy ideas for Christmas gifts, but you can also submit your own ideas for new inventions, and the team at Quirky will take you through the process to evaluate, test, rate, design and eventually produce your product! It’s a great way to really promote those ideas that you may have for simple things that would make life a lot easier!

And if you’re not the inventive type, it’s got some good products worth looking at- here were some that I liked:

I just love when people create new methods to push ideas into reality- empowering the creative minds who would otherwise never be able to see their ideas come to fruition.

You can find out more about the site and get involved here.