loading inventory items — iWish

What would “iWish” for in Sec­ond Life? Being an iPhone freak, I would love to see a more inter­ac­tive menu for inven­tory items.  Could you imag­ine hav­ing a VISUAL menu to flip through for cat­e­gories?  I am sure many out there are express­ing the same long­ing to get away from files and fold­ers.  I tend to rename inven­tory items, and when feel­ing extra orga­nized, place them in fold­ers and then sub­fold­ers in an attempt to tame the “beast.”  Alas, it always ends up being a mess, and how I think to name an item one day never cor­re­sponds with how I think to look it up three months in the future.   The NMC, New Media Con­sor­tium, held the 2009 Sym­po­sium on New Media and Learn­ing in March, and I had the oppor­tu­nity to see John Fill­walk (SL: Men­cius Watts) of Ball State Uni­ver­sity present “Bridg­ing Vir­tual Worlds: Approached to Hybrid-Reality with Sec­ond Life.”  Check this out — at the “Flickr Gettr” in the NMC Aho Museum  you can enter a search term and your avatar is sur­rounded by a giant cube of chang­ing imagery from Flickr.  Could you imag­ine if our SL inven­to­ries could be attached like this to be brought up at our beck and call??  I think this is an incred­i­ble dis­cov­ery.   Tak­ing it a step fur­ther, think of being an instruc­tor with an in-world class and evok­ing a topic search in imagery right around the class?  See­ing the con­stant image changes could act like a brain­storm to tie together ideas and make con­nec­tions that per­haps would never hap­pen in the world of tra­di­tional searches.  

Just because I LOVE SL fash­ion, I have to include the sources for the dresses above.

Wear­ing in the pic­ture:  Aqua Dress: [Col] — Mor­gan  
Red Dress in iPhone: Red Feather Dress: Paper Cou­ture Car­di­nal Entrance
Vio­let Dress in iPhone: Mai­iki Strap­less & Patent Vio­let Blue