Sat.Mar 10, 2018

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The Eight Pillars of Innovation

Innovation Excellence

Recent years have seen the unprecedented progression of digital advances, with artificial intelligence and virtual reality making the stuff of science fiction movies not quite as unrealistic as previously thought. Combine this with a new generation of employees and consumers harbouring fresh expectations and it is easy to understand why innovation is enjoying a renewed.

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#1,273 – American Pi

Greatest. Idea. Ever.

As the Northeast gets hammered with a second major snowstorm I’m reminded of an idea my friend had a few years back: what if you could see a weather man’s track record? Flashing up on screen alongside the scrolling ticker of school closures and snowfall accumulations would be the fact that Bob was 8 for his last 10 forecasts. We can’t predict the weather but we could at least know who was right most often.

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#1,272 – Volumetric Video

Greatest. Idea. Ever.

For years we’ve been hearing about how highly secretive mixed reality pioneer Magic Leap was going to change the world. About how their proprietary technology would beam images directly into our eyes and make it so that we wouldn’t be able to distinguish augmented reality from real life. About how it would make our lives easier and improve every conceivable walk of life.

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