In January I wrote about the two way pipeline of creativity related to a Ted talk on how customers drive innovation.
Today my RSS feed net caught a blog post from Steve Garfield on how he used the AV port on his Nokia N95 to plug in a shotgun mic - turning it into a much more effective audio capture device. The photo of his phone with the mic plugged in sitting on a tripod using stuff he picked up at his local Radio Shack/Dick Smith equivalent is brilliant.
Sure, web tools such as qik can make live broadcasts from our phones possible and I love them. But for me, Steve’s hacks demonstrate that high tech combined with low tech and ingenuity puts the transformation of a technology into the hands of the users themselves.
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That’s nice.
I prefer old tech, young tech as a description though. But Ingenuity is a word I’m going to start using, thanks. (Innovation has become meaningless).
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