We’ve seen Ewan McGregor draw a boat on a Microsoft Surface like table in The Island, and now it’s time to witness Tom Cruise breaking down as he watches a holographic image of his dead son. Yeah, the comparisons so far this year are numerous to future tech in movies. If the technology companies keep bringing this stuff out I have no intention of stopping the analogies. Dead horses were put on Earth to be beaten.Swiss company Atracsys has put a demo video on their site showcasing their own interactive “touch” system, which they call “beMerlin.” Unlike MS’ Surface there is no screen to actually touch. Using just your hands – sadly no super cool gloves are needed – you can interact with holographic like
Just when you thought Apple couldn’t do any worse that the iPhone, comes the rumor that they are planning to release a less functional version of the iPhone based on the iPod Nano.This rumor is based on a patent application Apple submitted on July 5th for a multi-function device with a circular touchpad control surface similar to the current Nano. Apple anticipates 10 million iPhones will be sold in 2008, that would be about 1% of the total cellular phone market. A less functional Nano version is speculated to help curb cannibalization of current iPod sales.I now have a question, since the iPhone doesn’t really do anything more than the current crop of smartphones using technologies from Blackberry and/or Microsoft, why would anyone want to