In my endless browsing of the internet, tonight I came across one of the coolest things I’ve seen in quite a while. It comes to us from our friends(?) at General Electric. You’ve probably seen their ads on TV over the past year or so pushing the Ecomagination campaign, which are pretty slick.
Now I’ll leave the debate open for another future post on whether or not GE really is pushing forward with greener energy options, but in the meantime check out Plug Into the Smart Grid, where you can use your webcam to create an incredibly cool holographic image on the screen. I just hope GE is putting as much energy into greening themselves as they are making cool internet tricks!
For a quick preview, check out the YouTube clip below! By the way, I tried it and it really does work just like the video!
Tell us what you think of GE’s Ecomagination campaign below! Is the company actually greening up its act?
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March 9th, 2009 at 12:22 am
Slick might be the word, but I think it’s a load of bull, personally. This is a company that creates many great electronics and devices all the while producing horrible machines of war and polluting air and water alike, fighting tooth and nail when told that they have to clean up their mess.
The Ecomagination campaign is in the imaginations of those at G.E., while the company has the M61 Vulcan on their conscience, not to mention defrauding the U.S. Department of Defense. The company delivers huge weapons while owning a large share of both NBC and MSNBC, both media outlets that failed to do their part before the Iraq War to uncover the truths that the Bush Administration was ignoring. Meanwhile, there is G.E. filtering the news while benefiting from the war they failed to inform the public about.
Their environmental record, as you can read about in their wikipedia entry, is appalling: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Electric#Environmental_record
Pushing ahead with greener energy options or not, I despise General Electric for being a company that makes money off of war and for polluting so much. The good they might do regarding health care or greener energy does not make up for their transgressions otherwise.
They are clearly not our friends at General Electric.
March 9th, 2009 at 7:41 pm
Wesley Joseph, you’re full of crap.
Let’s focus on the all the great electronic devices GE has produced and be thankful that they have also produced the “horrible machines” that at the end of the day have helped keep us safe from the people of the world who would do us harm if they could.
March 9th, 2009 at 8:49 pm
Steven J:
Thanks for visiting the site — I hope you will return — I welcome the outside perspective!
If by, “full of crap,” you mean the crap that companies like G.E. spew into our air, water, and soil (not to mention the airwaves), then we’re all full of crap.
I disagree with focusing in on one thing a company is doing (which while you may argue is good, I would argue is war profiteering) all while the company is on the other hand doing horrible harm. Sure, G.E. has pioneered convenient home appliances as well as medical devices. But they have been one of the United States’ biggest polluters and while obviously a large company like G.E. conflates media, politics, war, the environment, and even home appliances, like refrigerators, the focus of our attention is on environmental damage (this is an environmentally-focused blog).
Hypothetical: You have an armed body guard who escorts you around, keeping you safe “from the people of the world who would do us harm” but drops poison into your food and water and sprays poison into your face every day. Sound like a friend? Sound like G.E.?
I’ll leave the subject of war to some other blog some other place, except to say that we have to do a better job of making it a last resort than we have been doing. So long as we have such a large military industrial complex, we’ll probably have needless wars.
November 4th, 2009 at 9:29 am
Hi Hi. i reached ur post using google… going 2 add this to favorite
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