http://www.engadget.com/2005/04/01/movie-gadget-friday-the-pre-crime-analytical-wing-from/ Engadget Comments for Movie Gadget Friday: The Pre-Crime Analytical Wing from Minority Report http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2005/04/01/movie-gadget-friday-the-pre-crime-analytical-wing-from/http://www.engadget.com/2005/04/01/movie-gadget-friday-the-pre-crime-analytical-wing-from/Dec 19th 2005 12:12AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/04/01/movie-gadget-friday-the-pre-crime-analytical-wing-from/http://www.engadget.com/2005/04/01/movie-gadget-friday-the-pre-crime-analytical-wing-from/Dec 19th 2005 12:12AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/04/01/movie-gadget-friday-the-pre-crime-analytical-wing-from/http://www.engadget.com/2005/04/01/movie-gadget-friday-the-pre-crime-analytical-wing-from/Dec 19th 2005 12:12AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/04/01/movie-gadget-friday-the-pre-crime-analytical-wing-from/http://www.engadget.com/2005/04/01/movie-gadget-friday-the-pre-crime-analytical-wing-from/
Also, come on, you guys forgot the "sick sticks"! Best non-lethal weapon...EVER!]]>Dec 19th 2005 12:12AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/04/01/movie-gadget-friday-the-pre-crime-analytical-wing-from/http://www.engadget.com/2005/04/01/movie-gadget-friday-the-pre-crime-analytical-wing-from/
As far as the tech goes, while I can't offer any suggestions on psychic idiot savants, you can pick up some of the gesture-laden input goodness with Fingerworks' keyboards. (http://www.fingerworks.com) My wife got one for her carpal tunnel syndrome, but she really enjoys the additional functionality that the gestures provide. (Example, twist left like you're unscrewing a jar to close a document, twist right to open, etc)]]>Dec 19th 2005 12:12AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/04/01/movie-gadget-friday-the-pre-crime-analytical-wing-from/http://www.engadget.com/2005/04/01/movie-gadget-friday-the-pre-crime-analytical-wing-from/
Your dead what?

Funny that a detached eyeball works for biometircs in the future when it doesn't work now if detached...]]>Dec 19th 2005 12:12AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/04/01/movie-gadget-friday-the-pre-crime-analytical-wing-from/http://www.engadget.com/2005/04/01/movie-gadget-friday-the-pre-crime-analytical-wing-from/
Soon after I saw this a friend of mine's car was stolen. We went to the police station where we were seperated by the woman who took our report by a large sheet of bullet proof glass.
The glass reminded us of the Analitical wall and we mused about how "if this was minority report" she would just be able to call up digital picture all of the recently found. and then use her groovy glove to sort them around until we found the red carolla we were looking for.

As the woman (she was not a police officer but some sort of civilian clerk) looked for a pen, and then a pen that worked, and then the proper form, we realized that the biggest problem with this movie is that it is supposed to be only 50 years in the future. From the way the things look down at the Santa Monica Police station, I am guessing it will be 50 years before they get a computer with a mouse, much less radicaly change the way we visually minipulate data.

The other thing I though was funny was the way that the wall could do all that cool stuff and then tom cruse had toput the data onto a gigantic media card and sneaker-net it across the room to the other work station. No wireless in 2053?]]>Dec 19th 2005 12:12AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/04/01/movie-gadget-friday-the-pre-crime-analytical-wing-from/http://www.engadget.com/2005/04/01/movie-gadget-friday-the-pre-crime-analytical-wing-from/Dec 19th 2005 12:12AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/04/01/movie-gadget-friday-the-pre-crime-analytical-wing-from/http://www.engadget.com/2005/04/01/movie-gadget-friday-the-pre-crime-analytical-wing-from/
Wrong on both counts. Since they had acheived a zero-percent murder rate, getting a red ball pretty much guarantees you WON'T be dead, at least of homicide.

I wonder, shouldn't this system also pick up accidental deaths, or at least manslaughter? Those wouldn't justify going into permanent cyber-jail right?]]>Dec 19th 2005 12:12AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/04/01/movie-gadget-friday-the-pre-crime-analytical-wing-from/http://www.engadget.com/2005/04/01/movie-gadget-friday-the-pre-crime-analytical-wing-from/
By comparison, Paycheck was brilliant. Yes, the acting completely sucked and the narrative was forced, but in terms of dragging out a Dick short story to movie length, it was more successful and accurate than Screamers, Total Recall, or Minority Report.

Not saying I liked it understand, just thought the whole oldschool/newschool integration to the device was retarded. And why didn't SS have the balls to make the pre-cogs mutated, withered little midgets? At least, he could have made them Schiavo-like.

Let's hope A Scanner Darkly is not completely killed by the animation... and Keanu... and Winona... what am I talking about... Ever since Bladerunner did it nearly right, everyone else has been forced to do it so, so wrong.]]>Dec 19th 2005 12:12AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/04/01/movie-gadget-friday-the-pre-crime-analytical-wing-from/http://www.engadget.com/2005/04/01/movie-gadget-friday-the-pre-crime-analytical-wing-from/Dec 19th 2005 12:12AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/04/01/movie-gadget-friday-the-pre-crime-analytical-wing-from/http://www.engadget.com/2005/04/01/movie-gadget-friday-the-pre-crime-analytical-wing-from/Dec 19th 2005 12:12AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/04/01/movie-gadget-friday-the-pre-crime-analytical-wing-from/http://www.engadget.com/2005/04/01/movie-gadget-friday-the-pre-crime-analytical-wing-from/Dec 19th 2005 12:12AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/04/01/movie-gadget-friday-the-pre-crime-analytical-wing-from/http://www.engadget.com/2005/04/01/movie-gadget-friday-the-pre-crime-analytical-wing-from/Dec 19th 2005 12:12AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/04/01/movie-gadget-friday-the-pre-crime-analytical-wing-from/http://www.engadget.com/2005/04/01/movie-gadget-friday-the-pre-crime-analytical-wing-from/
If it didn't tickle his fancy, that's all in good, but don't try to pass it off like it was a bad movie that everyone dislikes.]]>Dec 19th 2005 12:12AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/04/01/movie-gadget-friday-the-pre-crime-analytical-wing-from/http://www.engadget.com/2005/04/01/movie-gadget-friday-the-pre-crime-analytical-wing-from/What if someone spells their name differenty every time?
If they don't have an English name (does the wooden ball support Unicode?)

Carving names was a minor but irking point. I think the pre-cogs should just have outputted a fuzzy image of the victim/perp that they matched up in a database of all known citizens...]]>Dec 19th 2005 12:12AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/04/01/movie-gadget-friday-the-pre-crime-analytical-wing-from/http://www.engadget.com/2005/04/01/movie-gadget-friday-the-pre-crime-analytical-wing-from/
A Scanner Darkly on the other hand, from what I've read, is trying very hard to use the PKD story as its plot and not to dumb it down into a detective or action movie. Considering how messed up Arctor is through most of the book I would welcome, not dismiss, the animation.

While I'm at it, Minority Report is considered by the masses and critics alike to far outshine AI and just about most sci-fi movies. Check its ratings at rotten tomatoes. AI was just a mess of a movie trying to be 20 different things at once without successfully doing any one of them very well.]]>Dec 19th 2005 12:12AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/04/01/movie-gadget-friday-the-pre-crime-analytical-wing-from/http://www.engadget.com/2005/04/01/movie-gadget-friday-the-pre-crime-analytical-wing-from/Dec 19th 2005 12:12AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/04/01/movie-gadget-friday-the-pre-crime-analytical-wing-from/http://www.engadget.com/2005/04/01/movie-gadget-friday-the-pre-crime-analytical-wing-from/Dec 19th 2005 12:12AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/04/01/movie-gadget-friday-the-pre-crime-analytical-wing-from/http://www.engadget.com/2005/04/01/movie-gadget-friday-the-pre-crime-analytical-wing-from/
When the animated advertising on the cereal packets in that film finally arrive in real life there's going to be trouble, though. Scanning your eyeballs to ask you about your pants is one thing - talking boxes of cheerios? That's a weapon of mass destruction.]]>Dec 19th 2005 12:12AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/04/01/movie-gadget-friday-the-pre-crime-analytical-wing-from/http://www.engadget.com/2005/04/01/movie-gadget-friday-the-pre-crime-analytical-wing-from/
i really enjoyed this movie when i saw it, btw, but about 20 mins after i left the theater this problem occurred to me and i lost a lot of respect for the movie.]]>Dec 19th 2005 12:12AM