gizmodo.com— See nerds trying to get exercise they wouldn't otherwise dream of, in the hopes of triggering one of Adobe's—what was that, infrared?—motion sensors.
Jul 14, 2007View in Crawl 4
They had one of these at this year's MS TechEd conference in Orlando too. They set it up in a high traffic area on the main floor and had it pimping ads for various sponsors in unique ways; when someone would walk by it there would be an "eraser" effect and some companies logo would be displayed, on another one butterflies would appear and follow the person walking, but stuff like that. That one seemed a bit more responsive than this one, but there was some lag once in a while. "Minority Report" certainly wasn't what came to my mind when I saw it; cool and all but it's not really anything more than motion sensing.
nakaniJul 15, 2007
Apparently, submitters have learned that adding 'like Minority Report!' to article titles is an easy way to game them to the front page :p
marx2kJul 15, 2007
nerds
marx2kJul 15, 2007
The same can be said about post-horseplay Christopher Reeve when put in a Superman suit
jayhawk88Jul 15, 2007
They had one of these at this year's MS TechEd conference in Orlando too. They set it up in a high traffic area on the main floor and had it pimping ads for various sponsors in unique ways; when someone would walk by it there would be an "eraser" effect and some companies logo would be displayed, on another one butterflies would appear and follow the person walking, but stuff like that. That one seemed a bit more responsive than this one, but there was some lag once in a while. "Minority Report" certainly wasn't what came to my mind when I saw it; cool and all but it's not really anything more than motion sensing.
kolywaterJul 15, 2007
awesome! thanks for digging down a comment that contains useful information and related reading!
helldonutJul 15, 2007
True. Happens all the time. Every kind of human-computer interface that's remotely different than keyboard and mouse is now "Minority Report".
dstzJul 17, 2007
Wow, eleven java scripts. I guess there's a kind of award for it.
gordonf238Jul 18, 2007
That wall is really boring.