Dark Roasted Blend has a nice post with lots of pictures of dashboards and instrument panels.
Included: mind-boggling arrays of dials and switches, from ships, cars, aircraft, spacecraft, trains, airships, and the batmobile.
(okay, not a Hollywood Screen, but dashboards and instrument panels are the original GUI)
See also The Big Board at TVTropes
Real thing, not Hollywood.
Or something…
(BP photoshop disaster. See also Photo Finish @ Secure Computing and Shall We Play A Game: What BP Learned from Hollywood @ The Authenticity Hoax and BP Altered Images Flickr photo set)
Wired’s GeekDad blog gave mention to the gesture computer interface from Minority Report in their post, “The 10 Most Useful Gadgets from Science Fiction and Comics.”
Was there any geek who saw this film who didn’t feel a bit disappointed when he came home and sat down at his gesture-ignoring computer? The interface was seriously cool, and, unlike many (if not most) futuristic computer interfaces in movies, actually seemed like it might be usable.
Here’s a YouTube video of the interface from the movie:
See also: SixthSense, a real world gesture interface in prototype that looks pretty cool.
Hollywood Screens 