Posts Tagged ‘Prototype’

Minority Report UI designer John Underkoffler talks about the future of gestures

Sunday, May 9th, 2010
Unless you're an engineer who designs cutting-edge user interfaces, you've probably never heard the name John Underkoffler before ... but you've definitely seen his work. Remember the computer Tom Cruise uses by waving his hands around in Minority Report ? He designed that. And it wasn't just faked together for the movie, Underkoffler had a working prototype at MIT before that, and now he's ...

Osama bin Elvis

Sunday, March 15th, 2009
Osama bin Elvis By Angelo M. Codevilla All the evidence suggests Elvis Presley is more alive today than Osama bin Laden. But tell that to the CIA and all the other misconceptualizers of the War on Terror. Seven years after Osama bin Laden's last verifiable appearance among the living, there is more evidence for Elvis's presence among us than for his. Hence there is reason to ask whether the paradigm of Osama bin Laden as terrorism's deus ex machina and of al Qaeda as the prototype of terro