Minority Report

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SceneTap Lets You Check Out The Bar Scene Before You Even Haul Your Butt Off The Couch

SceneTap uses facial-detection technology to give users information on a bar's male-female ratio, average age, and the total number of patrons. But while consumers may jump at the opportunity to find out which bars have the best chances of yielding a good time, it's the bar owners who are likely to see most value from the system.READ»

The Future Of Subway Swiping

Take a good look at these transit cards -- thanks to new technology, they might be on their way out.READ»

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Kinect Hack Shows How You'll Wave at Your PC in Five Years

Kinect hacks are often impressive, revealing how powerful the Microsoft device actually is. A new one that combines 3-D modeling, data gloves, and gesture control, hints at how you may control your PC in the near future.READ»

EyeSwipe Nano: Cheap, Dollar Bill-Size Iris Scanner Replaces Card Reader Apps

At just 5.5 inches wide, the EyeSwipe Nano is the smallest, least expensive, and most viable iris scanner yet, and brings us one step closer to a Minority Report-like future.READ»

Homeland Security Department Begins Using Iris Scanners to Track Illegal Immigrants

The Department of Homeland Security is testing iris scanning technology from Global Rainmakers to boost border security.READ»

The Eyes Have It: Why Iris Scanning Rules

The company behind the Big Brother iris detection technology explains why it works so well -- and how advertisers, retail stores and the government are going to use it to invade our lives.READ»

Iris Scanners Create the Most Secure City in the World. Welcome, Big Brother

Biometrics R&D firm Global Rainmakers is rolling out iris scanning technology to create "the most secure city in the world."READ»

India's Capital City Using Facebook to Nab Reckless Drivers

Another example of how crime fighting tech is beginning to mirror a dystopian future -- police in India's capital city have started using Facebook and crowdsourcing to catch traffic violators.READ»

7 Ways Real-Life Crime Fighting Mirrors "Minority Report"

From Facebook to facial recognition, the police state imagined in the Tom Cruise flick feels a bit more real every day.READ»

Google Teams Up With CIA, Invests in Analytics Firm

Both Google Ventures and In-Q-Tel, the CIA's investment arm, have injected sums into Recorded Future, a company that goes through "tens of thousands" of websites and looks for related actions and conversations between, for example, Twitter accounts, blogs and websites, and analyzes them in order to spot events and trends as early on as possible.READ»

The Genius Behind Minority Report's Interfaces Resurfaces, With Mind-blowing New Tech

You have to watch this video, to appreciate how fast gestural interfaces are developing.READ»

Multitouch Future: Stick-on Plastic Film Can Make 108-Inch Touchscreens

A Portuguese company has announced a stick-on transparent plastic film with multitouch technology embedded inside that can make 9-foot displays.READ»

MIT's Breakthrough, Super-thin 3-D Gestural Display Captured on Video

A new display offers a 3-D gestural interface, without any of the clunky equipment that hobbles its forbears.READ»

Schematics' Multi-touch Interactive Touchwall Debuts in Cannes [video]

Schematic, one of the firms which designed interface concepts for Minority Report, unveils their latest attempt at realizing those ideas.READ»

The Interfaces Aboard the New Starship Enterprise

OOOii designed the (fictional) interfaces in Star Trek and Minority Report. Here's a 360-degree tour of their latest workREAD»

Why Minority Report-Style OS Is Coming To PCs Sooner Than You Think

Windows Icons Mice and Pointers--the WIMP environment is how we've been piloting our computers since the clever guys at Xerox PARC developed the system in the early 1970's. The mouse itself has just turned 40 years old. But a number, even vital...READ»

Tech Watch: The Minority Report Computer Is Real

Prepare to be amazed. A group of visionaries has created a real-world, working version of the big-screen gestural interface that nerds everywhere drooled over in the 2002 Tom Cruise film.READ»