# 10 Posting

I can't believe that the semester is done. This class has taught me more than creativity and innovation. Team work and collaboration on all the different activities and projects has been awesome. I definately think out of the box now as before it was more of a reflex thought process. In class today we had two presentations of their verge projects. One was a E-card system for shopping and savings and the other was a jersey that had the capability to change the name or numbers if your player left the team or whatever. Both ideas were good but at this point I lean more towards the jersey. I think it is a more marketable idea.

Our own verge project has taken on a life of its own and I don't believe that it will end with this class. Everyone has added considerable amounts of research and time into this thing to not follow it to fruition. One thing we used  was mind mapping to get all our ideas out in the open. This let us identify any areas that we needed to research better and just tie up a lot of loose ends. I know we will have a great presentation.

I found a very cool innovation while searching the web. Facial recognition glasses that are worn by law enforcement officials in Brazil. These glasses scan a crowd of people at 400 faces a second and are accurate up to 50 yards. If a known terrorist or criminal is recognized from a large data base, a red light comes on in the lenses so the wearer is aware of it. These will be in use for the 2014 World Cup Games and the 2016 Olympics.

I plan on keeping my Blog and the Wiki updated as they are a very useful piece of technology. We just have to keep letting others know how to use them and get more people on board.

Week # 9 Post

Using Google for our Blogs has been a new experience for most of us. This is my first blog and I can see how it can be a very useful tool. As I check out other blogs you get a chance to see how someone else does it. The things they add to the blog like music and hyperlinks to sites they have found on the web. I found this innovations site that shows all kinds of new ideas. Here is the link http://www.ideaconnection.com/new-inventions/


The six thinking hats we used in class allowed our team to find a few things that were missing for us to complete our verge project. Now we have a little more research to do before class. Everyone seems to be doing their part which helps as that way a burden isn't placed on the rest of the team. We will be ready to present our project and I think our idea has some real potential. We all have been using our Wiki also for this project and it seems each day a new page has been added.

A new innovative shipping container was developed by Staxxon that takes a normal 40 foot ocean freight cargo container and when empty allows it to be collapsed to 1/5th  its size. The space saving benefits will be incredible since most containers on a return trip to China average 40 % empty.

This week 2 groups are presenting their verge projects and we may be able to pick up a few other ideas from them that we didn't consider. That's what's so fun about this class we are always picking each others brains.