Comments on: 8 Embarrassing Hollywood Tech Cliches

By: Markus

Markus — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 13:27:09 +0000

Never say never. Identifying DNA with any mobile phone could be possible sooner than one would assume. Check out this article about using mobile phone’s touchscreen to identify illnesses.

http://www.element14.com/community/community/news/blog/2011/12/29/touch-screen-medical-diagnosis-analyzing-fluids-on-screen

By: Artur

Artur — Thu, 01 Sep 2011 13:01:54 +0000

A great video recap of #8 Image Enhancement: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vxq9yj2pVWk

By: Valerie Chennault

Valerie Chennault — Thu, 21 Oct 2010 11:20:56 +0000

great post

By: anon

anon — Wed, 20 Oct 2010 18:47:10 +0000

http://web.archive.org/web/20070409024417/http://www.sgi.com/fun/freeware/3d_navigator.html

fsn was real, not a hollywood mockup

By: Meh

Meh — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 13:10:05 +0000

I’d like to see all the erronious elevator incidents done away with. Run away elevators? Brakes under the cars that shoot sparks and lift and reapply?

Doesn’t happen that way. Elevators don’t just drop, unless its before the safety elevator that Elisha Otis demonstrated at the Crystal Palace.

It raises fear of elevators while being total fiction.

By: smg45acp

smg45acp — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 12:16:33 +0000

My wife tells me I ruin too many movies by being “too logical”.
One thing that drives me crazy is when they shrink a 200 pound man to an inch high and suddenly me weights less than a pound.
It’s the law! Matter can not be created or destroyed.
That inch high man will still weigh 200 pounds! He will not fly on the back of a bumble bee now.

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By: Mark

Mark — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 22:17:01 +0000

Hacking/programming/any activity that requires typing on a computer.

In movies, this involves attacking the keyboard and typing at something like 200 wpm, never pressing backspace, and often not needing the space bar or enter keys.

In RL programming, a good deal of time is spent thinking how to solve the problem and fixing typos. If your typing speed is the limit of how fast you can program, then either your variable names are way too long, or you’re using a really bad language.

By: Rob H

Rob H — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 19:53:33 +0000

The Jurassic Park UI is actually FSN (File System Navigator), a real IRIX 3D interface: http://www.siliconbunny.com/fsn-the-irix-3d-file-system-tool-from-jurassic-park/