The theme of “acceleration” can be shown with a car. I am inspired by some videos such as: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=53c6o_cNPEo. The sequence from 1’20 to 1’45 is within our reach… maybe not in terms of quality of the rendering but quality of the scene. Other ideas could be a kid in a GoKart zapping by, birds getting away, etc.

Here’s a video with an analogy for several processors running in parallel. NVIDIA employed a “paintball” analogy to illustrate the theme of “parallelism”: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mwDPb3T8bOQ.The Mythburster set-up is clearly beyond our reach however the analogy is within what we can do with a Flip. There are plenty of analogies for things done in parallel: when several people drive in a car to a shopping mall then go their own way to different parts of the mall before getting back together at their car. The same happens with elections – imagine an election where voters would vote one at a time. Same when people are eating at a restaurant, one person eating at a time. Same for cooking rice, boiling one grain at a time! The element of creativity is to find an analogy.

In terms of format, the length of 2 minutes is indicative. It could be much shorter even as short as 15 seconds with a good idea. The audio track is just a nice to have but may be skipped. I would suggest to not focus on it as we can add some music or a voice over afterward. Finally the format does not need to include a person. If it is a technical demo, then yes, showing who’s talking is a must have. Most of the time, it is not needed. Here’s an example of format that can generate some interest by itself: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k6Sdsf0X1rg. Other format that can be of interest are a change in view points, such as the one you used in the Explorer video with a camera viewpoint at ground level. Another easy trick is the use of repetition: using the same object in different scenes for instance.

The themes that are of interest by now are: “acceleration” (as in NVIDIA), “cloud and sky” (as in datacenter), “inner part” (as in embedded system), “layers” (as in layer of information such as nametag), “self” (as in the use of mobile computing to increase what one can do by oneself), “extract and merge” (as in a database), “experience” (as in user interface), “control” (as in remote control), “rendering” (as in 3D simulation), etc. The list goes on and on.

Have fun!