Computers, gadgets, and other pieces of technology shown in movies. Does not include technology used to make movies.
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What software and web sites are portrayed in Dexter?
I noticed while watching Dexter series that absolutely nothing that happens on a computer screen looks even remotely familiar. Operating systems are not Windows, OSX or Linux, nor are they reskins of ...
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What operating system does Tony Stark use on his office desktop?
I've been stumbling upon this problem for quite sometime now.
What kind of Operating System (or what is it branching from (ex: Linux, Windows ...)) is Tony Stark using on his suite and Framework ...
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Can JARVIS be for real?
I know how naive I seem asking this question but was far too fascinated by the character JARVIS in the Iron Man movies to not ask this.
Well JARVIS is nothing but Tony Stark's personal assistant ...
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First use of on-screen text messages, like in Sherlock and House of Cards
The BBC's Sherlock (July 2010-) uses a novel visual trick to show the contents of an SMS message directly on the television screen, so we can all read it without having to look at a dull phone screen.
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Is the electric track the tour vehicles follow on in Jurassic Park actually possible?
Based on the image above and examination while viewing Jurassic Park, it appears there is no physical connection between truck and track (though there may be).
Is the proposed method of moving the ...
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How far advanced are todays robots with respect to those shown in Real Steel?
Several high-tech robots are shown in the movie Real Steel. Robots that can follow voice and even having shadow recognition and voice recognition there. I was wondering:
Do these types of robots ...
