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Originally Posted by timsamoff View Post
Mobile Creativity is having a mobile device that's an extension of one's thoughts, interests, dreams, and physical body. Mobile Creativity is real-time interaction and communication with a person's "world." This can mean several things: communication with friends/family, interacting with business associates, retrieving information on the web, etc. But any individual's world is much larger than the internet -- and even pure "communication." A person's world encompasses life, art, music, and culture, and fuses traditional communication with new ways of interacting with one's interests.

Personally, I'd love to be able to hold my up mobile device and see my surroundings through the device's camera so that I could sketch on top of what I'm seeing (or take notes or retrieve information...). I wish I could record some music that I'm hearing and have the device tell me the artist and title of the song. I'd like to scan my surroundings with the device and retrieve information about where I am. And, I'd like the ability to upload all of this information to a service that could sync with all of my other computers.

Overall, Mobile Creativity is the freedom to use a mobile device for whatever a person likes -- untethered by hardware and software limitations; free to mold and stretch the device in ways that were never thought of by the manufacturer. Mobile Creativity is making a device one's own -- an inherent piece of who a person is, not just a gadget that fills one's pocket.

Tim

I lurked on this site for a long time without posting but this one made me want to respond. Beautiful thought and well said.

My response would be similar: mobile creativity is what I do with my device (I'd love to be able to have a more heightened interaction with my surrounds, or use the combination of accelerometer/mic/video/sensors to create a new art or music form), what I do on my device (being able to do media mashups/cross-format editing would be amazing), and what I do to my device (hacknmodding to do novel things like control a toy robot or Wii).
 

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