You have to see this to believe it. There is a reason that IDEO is known as one of the most creative companies in the world. They do it, in part, by trying deeply weird and technically difficult things. Check out the film here -- to entice you to watch it, consider a bit of the description from their website:
"How could someone actually engineer a pole-dancing doll to spin around in silver garland, knock down a Phillippe Starck juicer, trigger a Gaussian gun, and topple a Tickle-Me Elmo, plastic eyes first, onto a computer mouse that then prints a document in Shanghai? All told, there were about ten other machine-based vignettes that lasted almost 20 minutes and spanned day and night, thanks to the fifteen-hour time difference between offices."
P.S. In the name of full-disclosure, I am an IDEO Fellow -- I am still not quite sure what that means after a decade or so but I am proud to be associated with these delightful and creative people.
Cool! I woulda' used a tele-tubby over Elmo, but that's just me. ;-)
Posted by: Fixed Gear | April 21, 2009 at 07:46 PM