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What's the latest? Knowledge is for the World.Get it.Love it.Share it. MIT Kinect Hack Brings Minority Report Controls. Head to the movies to watch a blockbuster feature like Minority Report or Iron Man and you’ll see some really cool technology that you kind of wish existed in the real world. The idea of the exotic interface that Minority Report introduces to us is quite interesting, but that’s usually just the stuff of movies and when the lights turn back on and you end up at your day job, you’ll probably be back to using your regular UI. You have to remember though that there are many creative souls that watch these movies and try to emulate some of these technologies in the real world.
Sometimes, they fail, while at other times, they succeed. This is an example of the latter as the scholars of the Boston Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab have developed a cool user interface out of an ordinary game console that you may find in any typical family room. Via: Daily Tech, Hardwaresphere. Video: Intel shows off Minority Report-like glass touch screen at CES - Gadgetell. By on January 11, 2009 at 9:13 pm Sections: CES, Computers, Displays/Projectors, Hardware, Peripherals, Trade Shows Ever since the movie Minority Report came out in 2002, large touch screens have been compared to the infamous one in the movie. This year at CES, Intel showed off a rough prototype touch screen that involved projecting an image from the rear onto a piece of glass.
We don’t have many details other than what we saw with our own eyes, but it seemed that the piece of glass was rigged with some capacitive sensors between two pieces of glass, and it was powered by Intel’s new Core i7 chip. The prototype showcased the products on display in the company’s booth and allowed us to drag around a 3D image of their booth. It took us some messing around to figure this out, but unfortunately the prototype technology only allowed us to drag around with one finger at a time – unlike the Microsoft Surface’s multi-touch support, for example [see video below].