Cardboard

What is innovation?

Innovation is taking two things that already exist and putting them together in a new way
– Tom Freston

A piece of paper can either be used as a tissue paper or it could just be the best origami ever.
Some of the best innovations over the past century stemmed from twisting simple things.
For instance: Take the example of a stick.
Add a rubber band to it and it could be used as a slingshot.
Sharpen the edge and you’ve got yourself an spear/arrow.
A matchstick is nothing but a little phosphorous added to a stick.
Its the simple things that end up being way more useful.

The good folks at Google have been doing just that. They took a piece of cardboard and changed it into something that turned out to be refreshing and way cooler than any of us had thought. Google Cardboard was unveiled at the annual Google I/O conference in 2014. Yes! Its been one whole year without the entire world already knowing about it. Thought we’d help pass the word along.