PonyPotato

Disclaimer: The clip in this post could belong in Found on the Net, but I wanted to use it to help lead into a discussion regarding innovations and imagination, specifically those catching peoples' interest.

Anyway, I caught this clip on another site. It's a demonstration of a 3-D landscape that appears, disappears, and can be manipulated by moving around a piece of paper in front of a webcam. It makes me happy:


Have you seen or experienced any imaginative or innovative technology or use of technology lately? How important is innovation and imagination in your field of study or work? Do you believe that most possible inventions have already been created and now will just be improved upon?

The company I work for does Federal IT consulting. One of our most recent projects focused largely on innovation in healthcare systems - improvements to processes, technology, etc. that would allow doctors to spend more time with patients and/or improve the car they provide. It is/was a really fun project, and it's interesting to see even the software that is created and used to help encourage innovations and structure the process of developing them and weeding out those that would be less productive or difficult to implement.

Thoughts?

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"Without passion man is a mere latent force and possibility, like the flint which awaits the shock of the iron before it can give forth its spark."
— Henri-Frédéric Amiel

Glory's Sun

Imagination is the vital core of what I do. Advertising demands that not only new ideas be brought forth but that the technology to integrate those ideas be constantly updated. IT wasn't that long ago that VHS dominated the video world, and editing machines and visual fx programs have come so far that if a person is good enough, it's hard to distinquish real footage from animated footage. It's evolving at a pretty rapid pace as people are so caught up in visual masturbation, that they eat up anything that is put in front of them.

I saw a video the other day that showed what microsoft's vision of the world in 10 years would be. I'll go see if I can find it..

plus the video I put in my blog today kind of shows how technology could be advanced to a super cool world.