This past Saturday I headed over to my alma mater to attend the Imagine RIT Innovation and Creativity Festival. This is a day for Rochester Institute of Technology to feature exhibits with different themes such as being green, science & technology and artistic visions. The exhibits were put on by RIT people from "both sides of the brain". Artists and designers along with scientists and engineers.

Kodak had a trailer there with some of our products that folks could try out. ( I think the trailer is from The Celebrity Apprentice!)

Dave Kassnoff was on hand to welcome visitors to the trailer.

I posed with Shruti, Tina and her daughter Lauren for a picture...

... which Dave printed out for us on a Kodak ESP 5 Inket Printer.

Cool! Something to take home with us. After visiting the Kodak trailer I went to check out some of the other displays.

Vishal, Shruti and I had peripheral photographs taken by standing on a rotating turntable while a stationary camera captured our image.

The results were these "all the way around" portraits.

This is a Rube Goldberg machine that will take your picture after you drop a marble in at the other end.

Joel and his family were there to try it out.

Oh hey, look! They're using a Kodak camera!

There was a big crowd around this robot. It made hot dogs! Even put ketchup and mustard on them for you. Yum.

If the hot dog the robot made you got you thirsty you could send this robot down the hall to a networked vending machine to get you a soda and bring it to you.

There was so much to see and do I only got through two buildings. And every building on campus had stuff in it! I am looking forward to next year.

To top the day off I got to try something I have always wanted to do. Ride a Segway! It was harder than it looks... but I did manage not to run any of the orange cones over.

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