Found Photoshop Contest: The Future of Grow-a-Frog
For six years, Wired magazine’s Found page has shown our best guess at what lies over the horizon, from touchscreen windshields to organ farming. Now, we’re inviting readers to help create Found pages: What do you think our world will look like in 10, 20 or 100 years?
Each month, we’ll propose a scenario, and present some initial ideas and concepts. Then it’s up you: Sketch out your vision, and upload your ideas (below). We’ll use the best suggestions as inspiration for a future Found page, giving kudos to contributors. We’ll add our favorite submission to this story.
This week’s assignment: Imagine the Grow-a-Frog of the future. Remember the kit that let you grow a wee tadpole into a mighty frog? It came with everything you needed — mini-aquarium, food and a mail-in coupon for one baby African clawed frog. The company’s tadpoles were first sent out in 1979 and they’re still arriving on the doorsteps of young science geeks across America (although the frogs are now banned as invasive species in at least 11 states). Surely the kids of tomorrow will be growing a lot more than frogs. In the future, what sorts of lab-bred life forms will come in a box?
You can write your ideas, but we’re keen on getting visual entries. These CC-licensed photos on Flickr may fire your imagination, and give you some fodder for remixing your own predictions:
Grow-a-Frog box
Aquarium
Sea-Monkeys Ad
Bird cage
Dinosaur egg
Dinosaur-like lizard
Dodo
Honey bee
Polar bear
Red Slender Loris
Use the Reddit widget below to submit your best idea and vote for your favorite. The image must be your own — submitting it gives us permission to use it on Wired.com and in Wired magazine. Please submit relatively large images (ideal size is 800 to 1,200 pixels, or larger on the longest side). Include a description of your idea and how you made it.
We don’t host the images, so upload it somewhere else and submit a link to it. If you’re using Flickr, Picasa or another photo-sharing site to host your image, provide a link to the image, not to the photo page where it’s displayed. If your photo doesn’t show up, it’s because the URL you have entered is incorrect. Make sure it ends with the image file name (xxxxxxx.jpg).
Check this page over the next few weeks to vote on new submissions, and look for an update announcing our favorite.
