Innovation Spotlight: Art and the Vacuum Cleaner

One recognized approach for developing innovative ideas is to bring together two seemingly unrelated elements, and see what you can create from them that is new, different and value-added.

If this isn’t just such an example, I don’t know what is.

The Roomba autonomous robotic vacuum cleaner used to create powerful artistic images, both photographically, of vibrant light and motion, as well as in print.

http://www.flickr.com/groups/roomba/pool/show/

Great fun to look at. And the floor got cleaned at the same time. How’s that for innovative efficiency?