From the course: Technology and Design Ethics

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The pitch

The pitch

From the course: Technology and Design Ethics

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The pitch

(upbeat music) - So Morton, here's the product. I often am walking down the street and I see something I really, really like. Maybe it's someone's Mocha, maybe it's some shoes. It's anything that I see on the street and I want to know, "How much would that cost me?" "Can I get that somewhere around here?" And so, the idea is an app that tracks people's things. We're calling it NVNTRY, spelled weirdly of course 'cause it's an app. But the point is that if you have something that you want to log, you take picture of it or a picture of the barcode or whatever, and it magically logs it in an inventory for you in a ledger. And we're imaging that people everywhere are doing this. They're taking pictures or logging everything into the database into the ledger. And that ledger follows that item around. So, imagine that you're in a garage sale or something, and you see a bike. Going like, "Okay well, I want to know…

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