Have you seen a really bizarre use of crowdsourcing? What was it? We'd like to find a handful of examples for an story we can publish.

The one that always comes to my mind is: Crowdsourcing Tattoo designs.

A lot of crowdsourcing is quirky by nature, but one idea that comes to mind was the collection of human hair to help soak up oil during oil spills. www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/05/08/eveni...ws/main6469575.shtml Another good example is Cats Playing with internet controlled robotic arms: dailycrowdsource.com/2011/05/11/technolo...obotic-arms-and-you/ I'll try to do some thinking and share more ideas! Sounds like a fun article.

Those are both great examples. I think that using the hair to soak up the oil during the oil spill is a quirky crowdsourcing case. We would love to hear others that you have! I thought this article had some quirky characteristics as well.

www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2011-06/22/...ons-next-destination

Try this: www.copenhagensuborbitals.com/

I have enjoyed following this project - it's an amateur space program started in Copenhagen/Denmark. The R/D came through crowdsourcing.

here's the ted broadcast :

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Thought this was interesting, Singapore is crowdsourcing the future of sports in their nation. What do you guys think? Effective Method?