I just had an idea after reading this thread about Wii Remotes:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x3160551I think that with very little investment we could drastically improve many aspects of our society by creating an office say under the executive that looked for and promoted the use of cheap off the shelf technologies for use by businesses, other offices and agencies of the government, hospitals, etc.
I know I know, the free market does a marvelous job of driving innovation, but oftentimes people are unaware of that innovation. What's more such innovations are often WELL out of the reach of the budgets of schools and rural hospitals etc. How much would it cost to employ a few researchers, some PR people etc to find innovations like the WII whiteboard and then make sure that all school principles etc know about them?
Again in case I wasn't clear I'm not proposing that this new office purchase these technologies directly, simply make sure that people know when they come up!
What do you guys think? Suggestions? Slander? Anyone? :D