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    Image of CaseyG CaseyG
    04:46 PM

    In reply to Ridiculous User Interfaces In Film, and the Man Who Designs Them
    It's Cinema-OS! [www.galactanet.com]
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    Image of Bertone77 Bertone77
    04:37 PM

    In reply to Ridiculous User Interfaces In Film, and the Man Who Designs Them
    Here are the basic guidelines to UI design for Hollywood:
    [www.annoyances.org]
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    Image of Torley Torley
    04:31 PM

    In reply to Ridiculous User Interfaces In Film, and the Man Who Designs Them
    Mark Coleran is the Syd Mead of fake UI.
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    Edited by Torley at 12/03/09 4:33 PM Torley was starred Torley was unstarred
    Image of Bertone77 Bertone77
    04:29 PM

    In reply to Ridiculous User Interfaces In Film, and the Man Who Designs Them
    I think this guys work is fantastic! I can understand the arguments that it's not "real" or "useable" but it doesn't have to be. It's this sort of stuff that pushs the design envelope for the interfaces that we will see in the future.
    Just like those "concept" car you see at auto shows, sure in real life they are impossibly too low to drive, have horrible visibility and interiors that are all but unusable, but it takes that kind of vision and design with out constraints to envision what could be.
    Awesome.
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    Image of Duckspwn Duckspwn
    04:24 PM

    In reply to Ridiculous User Interfaces In Film, and the Man Who Designs Them
    Everyone here complains that the interfaces are unbelievable and stupid. Know what would piss me off? If I saw a common OS being used. Seriously, if I saw Windows XP being used to control the super-villains power grid, I would flip my shit. Besides, that would be just so... boring. Admit it. Nobody goes to see a mindless action movie for believability. If the characters can survive a rocket going off a few feet from them without any major consequences, they better be using a sweet ass computer interface.
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    Image of Margatron Margatron
    04:23 PM

    In reply to Ridiculous User Interfaces In Film, and the Man Who Designs Them
    If only all GUIs were this slick looking and easy to use! I think everyone who uses a computer has run into a program one time or another which you can tell was designed by some number-cruncher guy with no regard to common design sense.
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    Image of JesusDeSaad JesusDeSaad
    04:20 PM

    In reply to Ridiculous User Interfaces In Film, and the Man Who Designs Them
    They always annoyed me, those unbelievably fake computer screens. Latest one was in 2012, where everything was Touch-Screen and every single camera was HD, had a zooming lens AND recognition software.
    Yeah, the fate of life on earth hangs in the balance of a few giant ships, and the logical step for their control software is to make it as futuristic and therefore as buggy and unreliable as possible.

    (but then again, it was the movie 2012, believability had left the movie theater right before the movie trailers...)
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    Image of Duckspwn Duckspwn
    04:21 PM

    @JesusDeSaad: Terrible movie. It wouldn't have been so bad if the kids weren't in the movie. They ruined it for me.
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    Image of BergenCountyJC can't beat MW2 BergenCountyJC can't beat MW2
    04:12 PM

    In reply to Ridiculous User Interfaces In Film, and the Man Who Designs Them
    I've been looking forward to an article about this subject. My only knack against the interfaces used in movies is that they make it too unbelievable. For the most part, the interfaces are extremely fluid, fast - especially when searching a national database under 3 seconds.
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    Image of BobotheTeddy BobotheTeddy
    04:17 PM

    @BergenCountyJC can't beat MW2: Has there ever been an BSOD on a Hollywood production?
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    BergenCountyJC can't beat MW2 promoted this comment BobotheTeddy was starred BobotheTeddy was unstarred
    Image of BergenCountyJC can't beat MW2 BergenCountyJC can't beat MW2
    04:20 PM

    @BobotheTeddy: I think you just gave Michael Bay a reason to explode something
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    Image of OCEntertainment OCEntertainment
    04:23 PM

    @BergenCountyJC can't beat MW2: I agree that this happens far too often, though I think in many cases it would hardly be the designer's fault. Take The Core. In that movie, they approach one hacker kid and ask him to "control the flow of information on the internet" so people don't panic. When he tells them it can't be done (thank you), the offer him "unlimited resources" (the heck?) and he accepts (THE HECK?!).

    When you're committed to a premise like that, the best you can do is sigh, shrug your shoulders, and design a big red "Stop Internet" button. At least make it look good, I guess.
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    Image of jacobestes jacobestes
    04:24 PM

    @BergenCountyJC can't beat MW2: I always get annoyed by animations and extra things that don't give any information. I like to think futuristic, powerful, secret, experimental government programs will be raw and laggy and sort of ugly.

    And I can not ever believe that when a suit gives a presentation to other suits, that he has an animated diagram of where the virus is spreading the fastest. Those people can just barely import images into Powerpoint.
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    Image of BobotheTeddy BobotheTeddy
    04:31 PM

    @BergenCountyJC can't beat MW2: He don´t need a reason to blow something up.
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    Image of friendslikeJimRome friendslikeJimRome
    02:00 PM

    In reply to Firefighting ATV Concept: Twin Water Cannons, Gull Wing Doors
    I just wish I could take it back twenty years and sneak up on my sister with it in the backyard.
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    Image of bitgod bitgod
    12:47 PM

    In reply to Firefighting ATV Concept: Twin Water Cannons, Gull Wing Doors
    Most importantly, it's got white walled tires. It needs some spinners though.
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    Image of Digo Digo
    11:27 AM

    In reply to This Is One Classy Laser-Made Collapsable Lamp
    Put a flexible LED in there and you just sold me one. I would love to smash a lamp every now and then and have it still work.
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    Image of DigitalPasture DigitalPasture
    12:13 PM

    @Digo: The solution I use for myself is to buy cheaper lamps to keep on my desk. There is something liberating in just pushing one off your desk and having it shatter... At least until I have to clean it up.
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    Image of Gann Gann
    12:33 PM

    @Digo: Or how about using photoluminescent paper for the light source?
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    Image of Xagest Xagest
    01:42 PM

    @DigitalPasture:
    It's great when you're trying to express anger to a coworker or family member. Gives you that extra oomph that says "Holy shit, that guy if fucking crazy"
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    Image of DigitalPasture DigitalPasture
    01:46 PM

    @Xagest: My thoughts exactly. It especially helps get my point across since I'm not violent or usually angry. People tend to leave you alone after you destroy a lamp.
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    Image of Hello Mister Walrus Hello Mister Walrus
    11:24 AM

    In reply to This Is One Classy Laser-Made Collapsable Lamp
    Technically, it's a collapsible lamp shade, not a collapsible lamp.
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    Image of SewerShark: LOOK BEHIND YOU, A THREE HEADED MONKEY!!! SewerShark: LOOK BEHIND YOU, A THREE HEADED MONKEY!!!
    11:09 AM

    In reply to This Is One Classy Laser-Made Collapsable Lamp
    That's really cool.
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    Image of En0s1 En0s1
    10:27 AM

    In reply to Firefighting ATV Concept: Twin Water Cannons, Gull Wing Doors
    Total badass-edry is this concept. I'm sure the firefighters of Los Angeles wouldn't mind one or two of these.
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    Image of weatherman weatherman
    10:16 AM

    In reply to Firefighting ATV Concept: Twin Water Cannons, Gull Wing Doors
    It's a cool looking concept but I can't imagine that the specs and the appearance could actually match up. First, where is all that water going to fit - 580 gallons would take up about 80 cubic feet,which is about the same size as a six person hot tub . It would weigh about 4600 lbs. Add to that the weight of the vehicle and you'd have to have an engine at least as powerful as a 6.7l Cummins. Where does that fit in this design?
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    Image of Hello Mister Walrus Hello Mister Walrus
    10:36 AM

    @weatherman: It doesn't. That's why people who design concepts like these are artists, not engineers.
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    Image of ManiacFive ManiacFive
    11:14 AM

    @weatherman: aaah but you see, it was never started as a design for a fire fighting vehicle. This was clearly pitched as a concept for a NOD buggy, the cannons even look like machine guns.

    But then EA went and changed C&C and the artist realised there's no market for a cool NOD buggy anymore, now its a firefighting vehicle.
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