Best place to submit ideas for a new product idea/inventions?

[Jake]

Typically you would have to invest some of your own funds to get it started.

There was a PBS profile on Quirky.com a "crowd sourcing product inception" site. There are some 400k free members, and a $10 submission fee to have an idea evaluated, the program featured a flexible power strip that accommodates a mix of wall warts, some inventor royalties have amounted to $600,000.

There are plenty of inventor assistance services out there, that somewhat like some so called talent agencies will take on all candidates no matter how impractical the idea or untalented the artist.
You can expect some to front load the costs so they get their money regardless of the outcome, they are required to display a disclaimer reminding you that most inventions fail.

Really in too many cases, as professional inventors will tell you, a good idea alone is worth pocket change, and only valuable to it's conceiver until working prototypes can be demonstrated.

Some invention service related links I had:
Comprehensive article on Invention services by Patent Attorneys
http://www.bpmlegal.com/pinvmktg.html
http://www.wini2.com/ Unbiased evaluations Invention Evaluation $250, Product Assessment $270
"Invent Land" in business for 18 years http://davison.com

A complaint and company response.
http://www.getpayback.com/inventions-inv...inventing/
http://www.complaintsboard.com/byurl/davison.com.html complaints
http://www.similarsitesearch.com/alterna...avison.com

The U.S. patent office, where you can do a preliminary search to see if it's an original idea, may have some useful material http://patft.uspto.gov/