Cardboard

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What

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Cardboard is a generic term for heavy-duty paper-based products having greater thickness and superior durability or other specific mechanical attributes to paper; such as foldability, rigidity and impact resistance. The construction can range from a thick sheet known as paperboard to corrugated fiberboard which is made of multiple corrugated and flat layers. The term has been used since at least 1848, when Anne Brontë mentioned it in her novel The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (Wikipedia, 2019).

Here I focus on the utility of and challenges with using cardboard as a medium for innovating.

Google Cardboard

Image source: Google Cardboard

Can't afford an Oculus Rift VR viewer (currently $400)? Buy a ready-made Google Cardboard VR viewer of make your own with simple materials (DIY with less than $20). View and create immersive experiences with the Google Cardboard SDK (software developer's kit). Get game apps from Google Play.

Caine's Arcade

Caine's Arcade

$1 gets you four turns; $2 gets you the Fun Pass, equal to 500 turns. Caine built a cardboard arcade in his dad's auto parts supply store in East LA. This arcade and the film Nirvan Mullick created led to a scholarship fund for Caine of $240,000 and the creation of a non-profit called Imagination.org plus the Global Cardboard Challenge.

(published 4/9/2012)

Caine's Arcade 2: From a movie to a movement

After "Caine's Arcade" went viral, we started Imagination.org & launched a Global #CardboardChallenge to foster creativity, play, and imagination in kids everywhere.

(published 9/13/2012)

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