Orange County Register

Street Surfing LLC, a Newport Beach manufacturer of skateboards and other action sports products, is doing a worldwide search over the Internet for its next innovative new product.

Street Surfing makes the award-winning Wave caster board. It’s newest product is the Whiplash self-propelled scooter. It’s looking for:

• Action sports products such as skate and surf products
• Action sports accessories
• Action-oriented toys along the line of Frisbee or Hula Hoop
• Wheeled goods such as scooters and casterboards

Don’t limit your thinking only to wheeled goods, Street Surfing says.

If a product concept is chosen, Edison Nation is assigned the rights and the inventor receives a $2,500 advance on royalties and a share of sales up to 20 years. Rights to ideas not selected belong to the inventor.

Submission deadline is Dec. 14. Click here to submit your idea or find out more. Submitters must be at least 18.

Street Surfter's Whiplash

The online search is on the Edison Nation web site designed to bring together inventor-entrepreneurs with retailers and manufacturers. Edison Nation screens product idea submissions for companies seeking the next great idea. Past searches have been for Amazon, Yahoo!, Walmart, Bed Bath & Beyond and PetSmart.

You have to be a member of Edison Nation, but membership is free. However, it costs $25 to submit an idea for the Street Surfing nationwide search to cover costs of researching intellectual property and product review.

“Since we first discovered and launched the Wave, our team strives to keep our finger on the pulse of the skate and surf culture,” says James Nunziati, Street Surfing’s vice president of sales and marketing. “Through our partnership with Edison Nation, we hope to speak directly to our customers and continue to discover innovative products our consumers have come to know and expect from Street Surfing.”

Edison Nation produces the PBS TV show that depicts how ordinary people get their ideas to market.

Click here for more information.

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