Hollywood Screens

Mega Dashboards and Instrument Panels

waitingisfullness — Sun, 05 Sep 2010 14:37:39 +0000

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)

Mr. Universe’s Hacker Cave

waitingisfullness — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 19:27:08 +0000

from Serenity

Dr. Strangelove’s Big Board

waitingisfullness — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 19:20:36 +0000

Batman’s Command Center (The Dark Knight)

waitingisfullness — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 19:13:13 +0000

NORAD Command Center

waitingisfullness — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 19:11:02 +0000

Real thing, not Hollywood.

NATO COE DAT Control Center

waitingisfullness — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 18:49:08 +0000

Or something…

BP Command Center

waitingisfullness — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 15:59:24 +0000

(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)

Electricity control center consoles

waitingisfullness — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 12:29:32 +0000

via BoingBoing

Chemical Station from Lost’s “The Tempest” Dharma Station

waitingisfullness — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 18:56:14 +0000

via Lostpedia

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The gesture computer interface from Minority Report

waitingisfullness — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 13:53:21 +0000

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.