Real Cyborg vs. Movie Cyborgs
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- čas přidán 27. 09. 2020
- Cybernetic organisms are misrepresented in media. Today we uncover the true story behind Iron Man, Batman, General Grievous, and more. By 'true story', of course, I mean 'bad engineering'.
Making all these educational videos is really harshing my mellow, man. It's time for a day off, and I'm doing the most relaxing activity I know - using eight years of prototyping experience to nitpick fake technology. I better not catch you learning anything.
Big brain play: Can't get demonetized if you can't monetize in the first place.
Yeah, I reviewed a clip from Batman Begins and called it The Dark Knight. Fight me.
What movies, TV, games, books, or even plays would you like me to watch next? I've got plenty of popcorn and plenty of floor to throw it on.
Videos reviewed in minimal amounts for educational purposes in a manner not expected to harm the existing or future market for the copyright owner's original work:
- Star Wars: Episode 3 (Disney)
- Batman Begins (Warner Bros. Pictures)
- Inspector Gadget (Buena Vista Pictures)
- Ghost in the Shell (Shochiku)
- Johnny Mnemonic (TriStar Pictures)
- Spider-Man 2 (Sony Pictures)
- Minority Report (DreamWorks Pictures)
- The Wizard (Universal Pictures)
Licensed assets:
Cinematic whoosh SFX: www.zapsplat.com
Whip SFX: www.zapsplat.com
Interference SFX: Partners in Rhyme
TV static: Videezy - Věda a technologie
The neat thing about the Minority Report interface is that they brought in the MIT Media Lab to help design it. One of the designers did a Ted talk about it in 2010 after they built a working interface. m.czcams.com/video/b6YTQJVzwlI/video.html
Next, they need to build bionic arms to combat the fatigue from all the intense gestures :-P
That’s awesome. Great follow-up watch for this video.
Please make a design that uses the HTC Vive. There are already companies that have figured out gloveless interaction with hardware. This combined with eye tracking to make sure the computer knows what you are trying to interact with is what you are pointing at.
@Zack Freedman what soldering iron do you use
@@inkrpen using the quest pro would be more appropriate since you have color passthtough, hand tracking with no controllers and eye tracking, i bet even the face tracking could be fun to implement in that interface, making a relaxed face or a tense one to modify the speed at which the scrolling goes
The difference between theory and practice is greater in practice than in theory - Random poster in Zack school
They had to nerf general grevious, you should watch him in clone wars. Your eyeballs will be more pleased with how much of a monster he was.
* specifically the Genndy Tartakovsky '03 Clone Wars
The later Clone Wars Grievous was mostly talk. '03's Grievous let his actions speak for themselves.
@@SirRebrl it's actually 2003 that is 2d and has a good geblneral grievous that is a real threat, like a jedi killer terminator.
2008 is the cgi with a coward grievous (though he does eliminate nearly every character without plot armor).
@@floraazul7622 OOPS. Got my fingers mixed up. At least I had enough context to clarify what I meant, thanks for the correction.
I am kinda tilted he suggested Grievous put crossguards on "his" lightsabers, and that he's a horrible fighter and Force User.
Grievous did neither. He killed Jedi and used their own lightsabers against them. And he's not Force Sensitive.
yeah it does him justice
You could probably do a whole video on piloted mechs. Gundam, voltron, titanfall, Pacific Rim, etc.
Oh, that’s a good one. Pacific Rim’s robot cockpit and control center had some awesome details
@@ZackFreedman
Titanfall is also super cool due to how practical they managed to make Titans; they didn’t replace tanks (as tanks are already the best at what they’re built to do), but rather gave them the role of FAVs/Space-Technicals. The feet/treads are also fairly good with ground-pressure as well.
Also, congrats on ~20,000 subs in a month!
Atlantic Rim is my fav
Don't forget Evangelion
"Gotta respect the super villain that doesn't skip leg day"
And that is damn true.
At our school we had a similar quote poster which said "Theory and practice don't differ in theory"
How about her hair also projecting the image behind it, as a single monolithic thing?
also: regular ass nintendo LOL
Oh jeez I didn’t even think of that. Maybe it’s fiber optic CYBERHAIR
@@ZackFreedman I believe the movie had a veil for her face (which she didn't have in the falling scene, so she used her hand). But I don't think they showed anything covering the back of her head, so yeah, I guess maybe it does imply cyber hair.
The series (Stand Alone Complex) gets rid of the veil and can camouflage guns and such, so... Cyber everything... 😀
Also, I just have to say, your avian boobies were hilarious and lol-worthy. Well played.
7:25 Major is not using thermal vision to look through all floors and walls, she is jacked in to the buildings security system (as you later say!). It could be a security camera at the room the people are in, or some kind of wifi-vision, that can be local to the floor and doens't need to pass the whole building.
Dude could I please get the name of the movie because it actually looks great
@@chorles3770 Ghost in the Shell (1995)
@@ayylmao.mp3 thanks dude
So essentially using the Minority Report interface is basically like using VIM
The Major isn't using thermal vision. It's a composite view from other sensors in the building which she has hacked, composited and then rendered from her perspective.
Also, it's not her being built in the next scene. It's the shell that the puppet master hacks, from memory.
I could be wrong about the second one though.
"Next up, ghost in the shell"
"oh no"
"let's have a look at an FBP that doesn't suck"
"Wait, is this..."
*Footage starts*
"Oh, nevermind."
The classic, instead of the pale imitation, thank goodness
as a cyborg, I am so happy to be finally included!
How it is to be a cyborg? It sounds amazing!
what's the reference that you're pointing out during the powerglove bit?
The five tones are the alien signal from Close Encounters!
The one thing about Motoko's heat vision: there's nothing that says that can't be the result of processing the raw data with a neural net, to extrapolate the humans at the depth she cares about. But then the windows are full of water and fish, and you gotta wonder if that scenario is in the training data...
But thermals can't see through glass anyways so its a moot point.
Nowadays you'd search for RF, not infra-red.
Everyone has some sort of phone that is constantly emitting
I don’t know how you don’t have 100k+ subscribers! Great videos!!
Fun video. I was going to leave a correction on how you described the thermoptic camouflage, but went and checked a few things first. Low and behold, you're correct. I always thought it had something to do with heat bending light or something, like a blending of the words "thermal" and "optic". Well, there goes me being wrong for the last 23 years or so.
Also, holy shit dude, you really must be a cyborg and are hacking the algorithm or something. Your hud video was your 1k subscriber video??? Damn, man, congrats! I guess it really does help to pay homage to our future robot overlords.
I found you through the nerf video, and now I'm just going through everything you've posted. Keep on!
the see-through tech in the GitS clip you showed 1) doesn't have to use infrared, 2) doesn't have to be passive, 3) she has 2 eyes (or if its x-ray\more agressive radio - an arbitrary amount of emitters hidden behind the "skin"), so she can focus, removing the noise with destructive interferance of multiple receivers. This is only limited by the penetrative power of the radiovaves used.
Agreed, and for the Active Camouflage, other approaches exist too: such as work being done with meta materials to "bend" light around an object, alas last I heard about it it only works at microwave band frequencies of "light" currently.
And, on an interesting note, Microwave (2.4 and 5 Gigahertz) frequency light could be useful for seeing people within any non-metal building since those frequencies can pass threw most common building materials but will be blocked or disrupted by water, which humans contain a lot of, resolution might be limited though and would probably require large bulky hardware just due to the size of the wave.
Thought Emporium did a decent video testing a DIY wifi imaging system, it had some issues but it was a functional proof of concept
I love your video keep up the great work !
I'm surprised you didn't compare the Minority Report interface with the one from Iron Man. A few years made a huge difference in the evolution of gesture interfaces.
Loved the DFear reference, haven't thought of that channel in ages!
"OMG it's Dr. Octogonapus!" Wow that brought line brought me back
I'm glad I found your channel! It's going to blow up man. Be ready. I'm a 49ish guy who had always loved electronics, but now that I can't work, (disability), I have time to learn a TON about all the possibilities! I have a big stock of microcontrollers and components, and a 3D printer, but my brain is funny. I LOVE learning HOW to do things, but once the mystery is peeled away, I add it to the pile of knowledge, and I never actually seem to get good IDEAS to turn into projects! I'm trying to figure out a Dog training setup that sees if she piddles on the training pad, and dispenses a treat if she does, but that one, with it's image recognition, is still beyond my grasp. But I am having FUN learning this stuff, and how to solder! Even micro! Your channel is adding to my knowledge big time, and I could believe you would give me a project idea to get excited about! (Without that, I don't seem to get initiative. Depression Sucks.) Our Bible group is using Zoom for meetings right now, and I made a Box with a couple lit up translucent buttons shaped like a hand, and a mic, to help people with muting, and raising hands, and the excitement about that caused me to actually get it done!! Several people using them. But that's SIMPLE. Thanks for the entertainment man! Your personality on the channel, and the humour all work really great!!
i was about to launch in to a thing about William Gibsons cyberpunk security feedback descriptions and then you reminded me that you are probably a bigger nerd than i am. Is that a nerd flex? Anyway it made me smile, actually your dialogue delivery constantly makes me smile, keep that style up, its awesome and i aspire to nerd up to your level. Actually while writing i have a question, you mention in a couple of vids that you have been a protottype and prop designer for some time, this means youve probably been modeling and programming code for some years. For someone that new to both what would you recommend for good resources to learn to code (for a tweeny or raspberry pi for example) and a good place to start for 3D printing. There are a lot of jank printers at entry level and a lot of dead ends, i would love to hear what you would recommend.
for the batman gear: If you had a cross-compressing wire structure with 2 stable configurations actuated by a motor you could have a wireless power pad that allows it to share a power source with the suits built in gear. Quite a stretch though.
9:43 I disagree! It is totally theoretically possible to make a display that changes the image with different viewing angles. (I wish we humans invested more in laser and holography technology)
Makes me think of the view screen in Star Trek TNG
It's not even theoretically possible, it's a proven concept that we don't yet have sufficiently mature technology to be close to usefully exploiting in the kibds of areas we normally think about.
The basic concept is super simple, instead of projecting the background onto a single screen, you instead have a textured display medium that presents different screens from different aspects by geometrically occluding the pixels you don't want seen. You then simply project the appropriate background onto the screen that roughly matches the viewing angle for the number of viewing angles you can service with screens. With clarketech you can do it with non-rigid surfaces as shown in gits by dynamically updating which pixels belong to which surface.
There are some proof of concept tech demonstrators around, and there's been some application and testing of it at scale in narrow wavelengths for armoured fighting vehicle active camoflage against thermal imaging sensors.
it also doesn't necessarily need to be perfect. consider how effective a static camo outfit is already irl.
14:42 to 44. on the shelf. Something vanishes & also behind his head.
Thanks for making these vids, chum.
Loved this video! Would absolutely love to see Robocop (from 1987) in a sequel, as well as other classic 80's and 90's schlock (Total Recall, Terminator, etc etc).
6:59 I gotta go watch and listen to an intro song now, be right back.
8:56 Also, this runs into a problem when it comes to multiple perspectives. This is a big problem as different people from different places would see the projected image as slightly distorted. Unless they had some sort of 3D screen, this would definitely be noticed.
Lol. I just watched this video to see the Power Glove. The nostalgia! Hahahaha. It wasn't as bad as you describe it, but it was as bad as you describe it. :D Watching video of it in action now and I'm reminded of how it sometimes feels to manipulate things with the Wii controller. And playing regular games was just impossible. Was very cool, but also junk. ;)
Yeah, we're really spoiled by how well technology works these days. Consumer electronics of the 80's and 90's just couldn't deliver on the ambition and dreams. It's like a switch flipped in the late 2000's; engineers went from barely hanging on, to building nearly anything in weeks.
I think the craziest thing is that with some of the accelerometers and gyroscopic sensors they have now (at relatively cheap prices) one could just about rebuild the whole powerglove idea into something that would actually work... Heck, they did a Harry Potter remote control that operated on gestures and ThinkGeek (R.I.P.) had the motion controlled Hoodie that used gestures and hand and finger motion/orientation to choose various sound and LED color coordinated "spells" of a D&D type... They originally did it as an April Fools joke, but the outcry and demand was so great that they actually built the thing and sold it for around $99.... at least until some asshole sports-=oriented company bought them out and basically discontinued most of their products... There was a great disturbance in the Force for Geeks and Nerds on that day... a moment of silence for a great store that is no more...
@@ZackFreedman The kids from the 80's and 90's finally found their place in the R&D labs in the 2000's.
Right before 12:00 about that you could have the icons floating around as a desktop interface which is not really meant to be super fast. Also you cold have a command to pull it to you or whatever as it is a desktop projection you'd also be able to acess everything fast via a menu option screen.
I don't exactly know how would it fell by only seeing it in one eye but having an AR glass that would allow to make computer screens pop up on thin air while being able to look trough it is kinda my dream
would be cool to include johnny5 on the list if you do an other one of these :) Awesome video and love the channel
regarding the heat signature from the beloved GITS, consider the possibility that the major was locked on to their cybernetics somehow and that the system has some ability to recognize the heat that looks like a body where the head is occupying the same place as the source of the signal. this signal could be as plausible as EM backscatter like radar for brain cases. Individual characteristics may even allow you to track cybernetic/heat pattern pairs. the real problem is infrared penetration. After a few floors, there's just not any infrared shapes to discern. ....maybe distributed sensors throughout the building? IAAS? (infrared as a service?)
and for the optical camouflage, you could make it multidirectional by using strictly unidirectional light.... in multiple directions... for each pixel.... and deal with the computational explosion somehow...
An option for your consideration... although many of these movies are considered relatively "futuristic" one must consider just how far the technology has come in just the last 50 years... if you were to show or even describe some of the technology we consider "commonplace" to people back in the early '70's, nobody would believe you... then there are some, such as a couple from Star Trek and the like that have come to pass and are in fairly common use... flip open communicators? Data pads? tricorders? CAT and MRI scanners? and the myriad of sensors available to even the DIY/hacker communities... There are already LOTS of PIR devices throughout buildings as both movement and heat detectors... FLIR thermal imagers have become far more ubiquitous in the past year, and there are radio wave and other scanners that can easily penetrate brick and concrete... fast forward another decade and all those may be possible... especially if one can "jack into" a buildings security, safety, and/or maintenance systems... I don't find it "far fetched" but more like "just out of reach" and likely that there are people already pursuing the tech....
Doctor Octogonapus having the limbs interface with his spine is doubly realistic, since the spinal column is the first point of interface for pretty much everything in your body. If you touch something burning hot, your spine is responsible for the reflex of pulling away because its faster to handle all that without bothering the brain. Only after the danger has passed and you've withdrawn our hand does the spine inform the brain "we've just been burned!"
To use a crude metaphor, its a bit like connecting a servo to an arduino: the arduino only needs to give general instructions to the servo, because the servo's own microcontroller handles all the sensing and moving by itself.
Him- 16:59 to 17:18
Me using Premier pro- I am going bald for a reason, you know.
loved close encounters of the third kind.
Thank Zack, not only a great video but it sparked an entire report on "Privacy and Autonomy in the Age of Smart Home Device" I had to do for my "Critical Thinking Strategies for Business Decisions," I also hope to I was able to spread your name and videos to some new viewers too. You rock and so does Matthew Broadrick.
"The difference between theory and practice is greater in theory than in practice."
Hey man idk if this might help at all, but A.) this vid is amazing and B.) if you do another one, maybe it could help to title it somewhat similarly to some of the other "guy from this profession critiques these movies" CZcams videos, only it would be more, "curly haired engineering nerd with predilection for alliteration opines on cinematic features." Idk just spitballing.
Oh, and as far as movie suggestions, 2004 movie Primer and 1985 classic Real Genius. I love your channel.
On the ghost in a shell part, one can imagine an image being treated to exclude unwanted layers
Oh also the glass windows would definitely block the thermal vision's view of the guys in the building too.
9:50 When not using a projecting active camouflage but a semi stable meta material, like it requires energy to have the needed characteristics and has to be activated, the camouflage should be direction independent. Don't think this exists like that right now, but iirc there has been some light bending meta materials that can cloak things. And with the tuning to VIS or VIS+IR other forms of vision, like radar, still get through the material but will also work to locate the object.
Aha, I noticed the matrix glitch in your video and saw the pocket reference appear in the back ground multiple times.
This channel is great it deserves more than 55 comments! 👍
"This is a family channel"
30 secs later: Guy gets his head graphically blown up and all his insides showing
Zack, I am getting ready to get into the hobby with my son. My ADHD brain wants to create things quick and I know 3d printing takes time. Ugh! So I was thinking I will start with 2 machines so I can at least get to the end point quicker. Such as printing nerf stuff. So my question is for a beginner 2x machines what would you recommend? Thank you!
Just thought about this, during Ghost in the Shell that if you know where your targets are to pinpoint accuracy as to tell what room they are in, why couldn't you just omit ambient heat signatures outside the area of interest or that don't fit the profile of a target? I mean most appliances aren't shaped like humanoids so excluding anything that isn't roughly human-shaped would solve that hurdle and cameras that blur out or omit imagery outside a certain zone do exist it's not hard to see that applied to thermal imagery. Combine that with neural connection pinpointing them to that room it's not hard to see some sort of multi-sensory triangulation which sounds amazing.
7:49 I have a counter argument. If you were to have two ultra high resolution thermal cameras, you can judge the distance of each heat signature, and using probably some bonkers machine learning, it could edit out the heat signatures that "show double" because it is not at the right distance that the person wants to focus on.
Take a look at the gadgets from the Splinter Cell games.
How would ultra wideband sensors (which are supposed to become commonplace going forward) work for tracking location in 3D space for motion gloves like in the minority report scene? I would think they're better than needing cameras and lighting elements. Apple and Samsung are using it for file transfers in their phones currently, but it might also be a really good method for connecting various input devices.
I want data gloves for VR. Finger tracking by default and a well designed interface would make VR far more accessible.
Actually, active ammouflage can account for many observers, one could have directional pixels that exibt different images for different viewing angles.
Spray Toothpaste all day 😂😂😂
Damn! that's a nice one Zack 😅😅
In Ghost in the Shell The Scene where she's looking at them isn't Thermal, it's either some kind of sonar or a detailed version of motion sensors built into the hotel. Least that's what I've always thought, for cyberpunk back then thermal vision was so passe. Basically, if the military was using it it wasn't future enough anymore.
If you want some odd wearable controller to review: As a kid I had a thing called "Gamester Motion Evolution Controller" for the PS 1, don't know if they ever selled it in the US. It was an awful experience and something I regret wasting my money on, even 25 Years later :D
I've never heard of that, but it looks absolutely ridiculous. Engineers were way too ambitious in the 90's and 00's...
Just want to say in reference to the Batman electro shape cape, Battle tech has a similar technology called myomer. a metallic synthetic muscle that takes enormous amounts of energy to use but is able to contract with incredible force. In the setting the scientist who invented it broke the test rig when they first tried it out. It's what allows the Mechs of that setting to move their various appendages. All powered by the self sustaining fusion engine created (in setting) by General motor of all companies.
with the quest pro color passthrough we have everything we need from perfect hand tracking to excellent MR to remake that file explorer or media player from minority report and make it actually ergonomic and adapated from quick search among tons of data
With Doc Ock, with the surgical scene, it must've hurt his back so much to be lifting not only the arms using his body as the base, but an additional ~600lbs of traumatized surgeon which would be bad enough if it was a static load, but it's moving so that's even worse. The arms didn't even brace against the floor to lower the load.
Yeah, I’m starting to think Sam Raimi isn’t a very good physicist
i think the tom cruise scene was meant to show off all potential functions and like the user was super veteran at using it so to a layman it looks too complicated to master. it began to look like tai-chi martial arts
Regarding the Minority Report interface: This is more evidence that a smaller input space yields greater output speed. It's why most computer powerusers use a lot of keyboard shortcuts. Moving two fingers off the home row to type Ctrl+C is so much faster than engaging the projected-space part of your brain to move a mouse cursor to a 15x80px section of the screen, clicking, then moving it to another 15x200px section of the screen, and clicking again.
The standard keyboard has roughly 1000-2000 possible inputs, depending on how many modifier keys the current application allows. A mouse has (in a 1920x1080 resolution) more than a million input *locations*, and also several input keys (1-10+, depending on mouse), and input modifiers (click, double-click, click-and-drag). This means the input space for a mouse interface is ridiculously larger than for a keyboard, but without actually adding any functionality. Admittedly, mouse input location space is divided up into a much smaller set of valid input locations, but this set is mutable and requires additional calculation, while Ctrl+C is always in the same location, even across keyboards, applications, UI libraries, etc.
What I'm really loving is how this just skips all the low hanging fruit that most of us nerds have already thought about in detail.
I suppose the benefit benefit of the gestured based interface is physical excerise.
Wait you and your wife look perfect dude she geeky too? You guys look too perfect 😂
Hmm can't you change the command word for the Echo to anything you want? Maybe it's a newer feature released after this video came out?
love the lazer collection
12:59 hits different watching this at the end of 2021
Hi I love your channel
I'm going with the glove zapping feedback being realistic because the copyright mafia insisted on it as a copyright enforcement mechanism.
I think the Novint Falcon tops the Power Glove for zaniest real consumer electronics device, but not by much.
From my limited knowledge about Star Wars lore fillered with my more extended knowledge about physical nerfs for live action adaptions:
I assume Grievous is way more dangerous in the original material. Like basically untouchable if only 2 or 3 people attack him with light sabers.
There are too many comments for me to check all of them but if you could do lawnmower man that would be amazing. And muchos thank you's for doing (cybernetic) God's work.
could this be a way to input sign language signs and output them using a text to speech system? kind of like audible sign language translation?
5:34 that's frustrating because I know the original implementation of Moto Voice (don't have a newer motorola phone, so idk about the newer ones) totally let you change the wake phrase to anything you wanted, rather than being hardcoded for "ok google, hey google, siri, alexa, etc"
Make sure you keep commenting on your own video and start using the community tab (on comment on that too). CZcams is weighting engagement there orders of magnitudes stronger than it does on videos.
19:50 what happened to that video on the cyborg super soldiers?
Regarding the Minority Report: back in the day PlayStation Europe had that kind of UI running on a PS2 EyeToy.
The C64 driven force field generator from The Explorers.
I like to imagine that grievous just has the same problem many others who try to contract technology developers do: they didn't contract anyone to act as a bridge between the users and the developers. So like he's got all this awesome hardware and the software to control it is all there and working, but his ability to intuitively flow with his interface is lacking. Like, say his hands can swivel 360 degrees, but his meat brain just really doesn't like it, so he kind of forgets to do it when the tensions mount. I dunno if that makes sense in the star wars universe, but it makes sense in ours lol
The heat vision thing, couldnt you like, focus the sensitivity of the camera at specific depths? maybe there are two sensors aimed such that they interfere with each other, and they can change the angle of them to specify exactly the depth that the sensors read the strongest at. I'm pretty sure we can do that with like sound waves? where we can create sound waves that are inaudible except at a specific location? Besides the thing where you use the reflective geometry of the roof. You like, create two waves that destructively interfere for the most part, but aren't quite aligned, so there are points where its destructive and points where its not
Imagine that that slow and clunky cyberdeck interface is actually extremely elegant. The computer read the mind of the user, knew when they were going to click and where to try to open access to the internet, and it generated a slow and smooth animation just at the exact right time. The time delay is just for the sake of allowing time for the user to make sense of whats happening. Imagine that for a more competent user, the interface would be faster. And because the interface can actively adapt to what the user wants in the moment, they don't even need that arm wavy thing all the time. The user is just doing all that to feel cool right now :P. At least, the world makes more sense to me when I describe things in terms of PEBCAK lol
Maybe the matrix system has so many gestures because that particular user already thinks it has that many gestures ;). Humans love being flourishy and flashy for no reason
Don’t be afraid to hit your projects with a hammer... words to live by 😂
"looks at project car" uhhhh
14:10 Well, either those needles would have to actually be multiple needles as there are probably thousands of neurons in there. Also, gravity must be some sort of joke there. He must have some INSANE balance as those arms are probably quite heavy and could easily put you off balance.
The difference between theory and practice is that in theory, they should be the same, but in practice, they are not.
Why not build the hilt and crossguard of a light-saber out of Beskar or Phrik?
New viewer here. Speaking of super soldiers, try I Robot, if you haven't already.
The viewer used in blad runner
Can you please review battle angel alita.
Don't know where on you tube , but a little kid made himself some doc octopus arm.
Little lore miss. General grievous despite his jedi kill count and use of lightsabers isn't any kind of force user.
My Star Wars lore is weaksauce. The General is still one of my favorite characters in the series, though
Radical Edward from cowboy Bebop has cool screen glasses and a personnal fishy interface to go on web x")
Grevis was not force sensitive to begin with. When they stuffed his lungs and brain into that shell they they did pump him full of a force user's blood. But that didn't take, he is a normal warrior stuffed into a 4 armed suite give him a brake.
General Grievous processing power is his only limitation and if he's based off an organic system that's a pretty big limitation.
He is, in fact, pretty sure his processing is not augmented in any way, also pretty sure he is not a force user.
Every thing ready on the dark side of the moon?
DAMNIT, now I want to re-watch Ghost in the Shell.
AFAIK the Powerglove was not made by Nintendo. They licensed it but it was never an official NES product. The person who developed the technology was a real pioneer and the prototypes were cool, but building it into an affordable consumer product just was not possible.
I can't see it being hard to shoot at a falling person turning invisible. It's not like their path is changing
They probably used the gesture system they did in Minority Report because, as it turns out, real, effective gesture-based inputs (i.e., touchscreens) make us look more like pre-verbal toddlers than cyberspace antiheroes.
Needles in the spine isn't _that_ bad, but you're right it isn't a long term solution. I have four DSP's in my face and the interface and power are over a radio link a bit like RFID but higher power. This lets the skin continue to do its job unimpeded, but the power is limited so no muscle stimulation, only nerve tickling. Hopefully we'll have through-the-skin connectors some day soon though because being an ISM band transceiver has some downsides.
7:50 humans can hear one specific person into a crowd. Google figure out how to from crowd select exact the people that are talking on the stage, software from a bunch of data can figure out the shape and put on the rest of the screen the green screen effect. Then why it is impossible to filter out IR, ultrasonic, or whatever medium that system uses with the desired range. besides your brain stacked into 2d image but astrophysics used "stereoscopy" (I know it's by definition describes the visible part of the electromagnetic spectrum and they used different range) to get the picture of a black hole.
The Power Glove was indeed for "orignal-ass" NES. In fact, there were a lot of input devices for the NES that you young whipper-snappers wouldn't remember 'cause you weren't around in the 80's, some of which I think you'd appreciate: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Nintendo_Entertainment_System_accessories
Take note of:
* the Gun Sight, a voice-activated laser headset
* the Game Handler, a one-handed joystick controlled by tilting (Precursor to the Wii-Mote?)
* the Hands Free Controller, one of the rarest input devices since it never sold in stores (only through the customer service line)
* ...and of course, the Zapper Light Gun, which actually was a camera in the shape of a gun
Not listed on this page is the U-Force, a laptop-looking thing that used the "power of lazers" to track your hand motions.
check that comunity episode with the vr operative sistem