>>Watching CSI NY last week and Mack was complaining about being short-staffed because of the swingeing budget cuts they've experienced.
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>>In that episode they made use of the star trek-like 3-D, life-sized, holographic full-body tomography thingummy, where they can examine the body inside and out without disturbing it.
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>>In the same episode they're playing with the huge glass display, as featured as futuristic in "Minority Report", where they're whizzing images and data about with the flick of a finger or hand gesture.
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>Well look at WII - the gesture pointer is already here.

So long as you have the gizmo in your hand, not just your moving finger.

>I can clearly see real life applications of such an interface. And what they showed in CSI there wasn't impossible even today. Give me a WII, full SDK, tools etc for it, and a few $100K, and about a year... you and I could write better in Fox :).

Notwithstanding, my beef was with the assertion that they're suffering budget cuts, yet the kit they have at their disposal, even if it is science fact, is not available from your local hi tech store and would cost a fortune. They also have the 3-D holographic head whatchamacallit too.

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>>There were several other SF-like hi-tech gadgets in that epo alone.
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>I'm still waiting for the day when they sell their obsolete gadgetry at bargain prices. I wish I could get my hands on that contraption which removes unfocused pixels, Blade Runner style... I have some 480x640 pics from the early days of digital photography which I'd like to finally see in full 12 megapixel resolution...

We've talked about this before. Not to forget that it can take an oblique-angled view of the low-res writing too. In one epo they picked up the screwed up lottery ticket, that the (once fat) cheerleader had picked out of the drum, screwed up and dropped, at the basketball game, where the loud-mouthed, offensive winner got to shoot at goal, then died of a "kiss of death".