Gallery of the Uncommon

Gallery of the Uncommon title

What to expect from an institution that’s called Institute for Systems and Computer Engineering, Technology and Science, and which had in the eighties a vision that one day an optical fiber would be reaching every single home, transporting all communication services?

What to expect from an institution that, steadily growing in times of crisis, exports its management model to Brazil and supports the foundation of its akin INESC P&D Brasil?

One can only expect innovation, disruption, thinking out of the box. And that spirit is not only valid to researchers from INESC TEC and INESC P&D Brasil, but it also contaminates whoever is around them.

The case we here report happened during the INESC P&D Brasil General Assembly, that took place in April, in S.Paulo, where it was asked an employee present to take a picture of the committee.

An apparently simple request, but those who have an innovative spirit will always throw in some extra value. This anonymous volunteer, feeling the geniality before him, answered promptly, taking in his hands the cell phone that was provided for that request.

However… every time he wanted to take a picture, the employee would hit the button so hard that the cell phone would lean forward, under the impulse of that thick finger that hammered the key. After several attempts, the outcome is what you can see… registered for posterity.

This was the best picture, totally out of the box. Mind blowing.