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"I started writing in the 1930's when I was eighteen years old. And deep inside me I'm still eighteen and it's still 1938."
- Isaac Asimov

Wired Glove Interface Display  
  A large screen display that uses a wired glove interface.  

In the film, the precogs provide a large mass of uncorrelated data - primarily images and short "clips" - to the Precrime detectives. How can you efficiently sort through all of the necessary material?


(Tom Cruise looks for clues)

Technovelgy from Minority Report (Movie), by Steven Spielberg.
Published by Dreamworks in 2002
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In the film, Tom Cruise's character makes use of special wired gloves; the lit fingertips (and thumbtip) are sensed by the display, which follows his commands.


(Minority Report multi-touch interface)

In the movie, it is not clear whether or not the gloves are a true haptic interface; gloves of this kind would actually feed back to the user. For example, if the computer knew you were moving a lot of data, it could make the gloves convey to you a sense of weight or inertia.

Here is a brief excerpt from the glove interface from the movie. Keep in mind that the movie has some intense scenes.

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  More Ideas and Technology from Minority Report (Movie)
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Wired Glove Interface Display-related news articles:
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  - Minority Report Glove Interface From Raytheon
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  - G-Speak Compared To Minority Report Gesture Interface
  - AcceleGlove Open-Source Data Glove
  - Real-Life Minority Report Interface Presentation Video
  - Kinect Hack Yields 'Minority Report' Interface

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