Hrmmm.
This seems familiar....
New tech at GTC12 lets punters pretend to be Tom Cruise in Minority Report: opening windows, moving them, closing them, and essentially acting like a cool, futuristic cop. Eyesight Mobile Technologies performed an interesting demonstration on the exhibit floor. In the video, marketing director Liat Rostock shows us how the …
We demonstrated something very similar to the Minority Report screens a number of years ago when we took delivery of the first frameless LCD monitors. OK, they were not transparent and the user had to wear gloves for the cameras to maintain an accurate lock, but we had an interactive system the size of the BBC weather reports (in fact they were one of the people we demonstrated it to!)
Anonymous because the people who did buy it would rather not you know who we or they are, or how good it is now!
"The machine was rather difficult to operate. For years radios had been operated by means of pressing buttons and turning dials; then as the technology became more sophisticated the controls were made touch-sensitive—you merely had to brush the panels with your fingers; now all you had to do was wave your hand in the general direction of the components and hope. It saved a lot of muscular expenditure, of course, but meant that you had to sit infuriatingly still if you wanted to keep listening to the same program."
Spot on yet again Mr Adams.