HP Labs: Inspiring Video
One of the highlights of the Press Conference held at Hewlett-Packard earlier this month was the premier of a video showcasing the latest innovations from HP Labs.
The video features some of the 600+ scientists and engineers from around the world who work at Labs explaining their research in nanotechnology, sustainability, predicting the behavior of crowds, context aware computing and more. But this is not just a dry ‘talking heads’ film. The video uses creative animations to make each invention come alive. The researchers show what inspires them and explain how they turn their dreams into reality.
My favorite segment is Philip Stenton’s stunning demonstration of Mediascapes. This context-aware solution transforms the quotidian into the phantasmagorical. He illustrates how the technology is “like rolling out a digital carpet on a physical landscape” as the downtown street around him morphs into a medieval castle with fire breathing dragons. Gamers, eat your hearts out! Philip then shows how the same technology can be used in the business world as he uses Mediascapes ‘X-Ray Vision’ capability to uncover wiring schematics buried behind walls and conduits beneath the city streets. Coming soon to a city maintenance department near you?
I was also fascinated by Andrew Bowell’s explanation of BookPrep digitization which takes print-on-demand to a whole new level. This makes it possible to bring back into print every book ever printed. The possibilities for people to build profitable small businesses catering to niche markets with customized reprints of books are endless. Mash-ups of recipe books (pun intended) are first out of the chute at the Foodsville community portal.
The video lasts just under seven minutes. Take the time to witness state-of-art in high tech research profiled in a state-of-the-art video. Click the play button below.
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