Technology in movies and tv

What have you seen in a TV or Movie that you wish were a real technology?  It doesn't even have to be in a futuristic setting.  The wireless communication sunglasses from Mission Impossible 2, or the car's features in Die Another Day, for example.

The obvious choice would be teleportation - talk about convenience - but that's not likely to be achieved in our lifetime, if ever. There were some great ideas in Minority Report, and not even the big stuff like the hand-manipulated computer screens - check out the self-updating electronic newspapers and other little details they dropped in there. We're not too far away from having commercially-viable flexible screens.

Gravity manipulation device. imagine the pranks, and the usefulness of being able to grab your glass of soda from the other side of the room.

Isn't there a company that has already made flexible LCD screens?

>>4
OLEDs.

>>4
Yes, flexible OLED stuff does exist, but there are no commercial flexible screens just yet (it's taken a while to get a stable blue-emitting polymer). I expect to see OLED-based displays within the next couple of years or so (whether flexible, roll-up displays will take off any time soon remains to be seen - they are too easy to crease and damage).

>>6
Oh, and by "OLED-based displays", I mean commercial, full-colour computer/TV displays - there are already phones, MP3 players and such that use simple OLED displays.

I think all the technology from the new FF7:Advent Children would be pretty kickass if it was every made a reality. Especially the bike, it kicks the one in akira's ass.

Do bikes have asses? They do now!

Slipstream.

Gimmie a all-knowing tricorder pls. Search and Rescue would be a snap then.

How about the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy?

How about a .nix shell that is aesthetically pleasing and functional. I see too many of those on tv and movies

>>13

Hell yeah, I want that leet 3D UNIX featured in Jurassic Park

>>14

I've always been a huge fan of what I call the "MovieOS".  It's absolutely amazing, and practically psychic!  You punch two GUI buttons and whatever you want to do, be it launch a nuclear missile or buy something from amazon, it's already *done*!  There's never any waiting, it's always perfectly responsive.  It's able to bust arbitrarily huge encryption (a la Swordfish) in record times.  The progress bars are *always* exactly representative of how it's doing, the rate of completion for a task is always constant.  It's never hackable, unless it's supposed to be.  It has awesome blue-on-black interfaces with fun 3dFX (like in Jurassic Park).  It *never* uses crappy old Tahoma for its default font, but always some "futuristic" font that I can just never, ever find.

On the downside, though, the Movie OS does seem to use a lot of modal dialogues.

Hey，I'm shocked to see how you are fool.
Presented by SONY.
It's a SONY.

Cool movie stuff: MovieOS, eh?

It'd be a manual feedback to manually confirm what you want to do with say a bio-neural interface.

Say you decide "I want to play X song by Y band". The option would appear and you could confirm it. It could be useful to stop you from doing so at an awkward moment (Say when someone else was talking).

Instant gratification needs dicipline or something to slow you down enough for you to realize the consiquences of your actions.

Sure, there'd be a basic interface of some sort. People still need to recieve information FROM computers (raw data to the brain would be far too dangerous).

I can see a command-line enviroment like that. Instead of typing your commands, you roughly imagine what you want and the computer takes your thoughts apart and converts them into a corrisponding input command.

Perhaps this is the next step in computing as we know it?

...Perhaps I should patent it.

>>17

I think I already patented it.  It falls under my umbrella patent on "communication amongst one or more parties capable of understanding or acting based on generic messages" patent.

Speaking of which, by using this webboard, you owe me royalties.  In fact, most people owe me royalties for exercising their vocal chords with the intent to communicate.

>>2
Teleportation is currently being tested.  So far, scientists have gotten up to transporting a mouse a few feet, I think.

>>19

dude give me a FUCKING LINK

>>19 = on crack

Scientists have just about managed to 'teleport' a couple of particles. They haven't even managed a single molecule yet, let alone anything living and organic.

Last I heard, they'd successfully teleported some subatomic particles across a room, but it wasn't really a teleportation.  It was a duplication.

The sheer volume of information that a transporter would have to transmit to cohesively send a being from point A to point B is astoundingly huge.  There's not enough storage capacity on the planet to do so.

>>15
Way to steal wikipedia content and pass it off as your own.

>>24 (I'm >>15)  There's a wiki on the MovieOS?  Dammit!  I've been crowing about the movieOS for ages, ever since I saw Jurassic Park.  I swear I had *no* idea a wiki article existed on it.

What's it under?  I don't see anything when searching for "movie operating system"

some sort of personal flying apparatus; jetpack, helicopter pants ETC...  You don't think it's that cool or imaginative until you've seen the view from a mountain over a town.

>>12
Wikipedia + PDA

>>15
Keep in mind that you can bypass any password prompt by typing "override" in any field and pressing OK, though.

I would love to see the computer interface of "Minority Report" implemented. Shouldn't be that hard to do, except for the translucent holographic displays :)

>>28
Those displays have been created and are usable, including moving your hand in it to click, etc. There was a thread about it in /g/ a while ago, but it's gone now. Google it.