<![CDATA[A Peepshow of the Best Futuristic Vision Systems - io9 Comments]]> <![CDATA[A Peepshow of the Best Futuristic Vision Systems - io9 Comments]]> <![CDATA[A Peepshow of the Best Futuristic Vision Systems]]> all i can say is I was promised x-ray vision many times......WHERE IS IT!!!!!! I bet the Chinese have it lol :]

superbryant

]]> <![CDATA[A Peepshow of the Best Futuristic Vision Systems]]> @lizhenry:
Although I'm happy as a child on xmas morn that wearables finally are getting manufactured commercially, I still think that a comment on the GUI design is in order:
Tech producers all over the globe - stop having your coders and engineers design GUI's. No matter what, it is always 15 years out of date. A quick peak at what they are wearing should give you a hint on wether they've moved passed the 90's or not.

Katana_Mind

]]> <![CDATA[A Peepshow of the Best Futuristic Vision Systems]]> @freznel: OVER 9000?!?!?!!

Oh, and how is one way transmission avalible at larger lengths then two way transmission if both devices have the same hardware, hence the same antenna/transceiver/amp?

@-emory-: And they make ya look smexy too. BASMF!!!

cde

]]> <![CDATA[A Peepshow of the Best Futuristic Vision Systems]]> I'd love to wear a Saiyan Scouter:

Designed by a race that worked briefly with Frieza before he destroyed them, these Scouters allow the wearer to determine the exact power level of any nearby person. This Scouter can also locate any creature that has a power level of over 10 within a radius of 50 miles (80.5 km). The Scouter can also be used to locate powerful magical items, such as rune objects, within a radius of 5 miles (8 km). The Scouters are also equipped with extremely powerful Faster-Then-Light transmitters and can instantly transmit information from one Scouter to another within a radius of 10 light years. Two-way communication is possible only within a radius of 2 light years.

freznel

]]> <![CDATA[A Peepshow of the Best Futuristic Vision Systems]]> Also, the Peril-Sensitive Sunglasses which serve to keep you calm by not letting you see anything that might alarm you.

Eddie C.

]]> <![CDATA[A Peepshow of the Best Futuristic Vision Systems]]> @NervousPervous:

That seems similar to the IM Lenses in Doktor Sleepless, or even Spyder's iconic camera sunglassesn from Transmetropoitain.

Klitaka

]]> <![CDATA[A Peepshow of the Best Futuristic Vision Systems]]> the Ghost in the Shell eyes were awesome, but unfortunately prone to being hacked. oh, and monitored - you thought Echelon was intrusive now, just wait till you've got warrantless spying on your eyeballs....

hiro_protagonist

]]> <![CDATA[A Peepshow of the Best Futuristic Vision Systems]]> OH OH OH!
My personal fav. Riddik's eyes. Nothing says BAMF like ghost white eyes that let you see in the dark.

-emory-

]]> <![CDATA[A Peepshow of the Best Futuristic Vision Systems]]> zomg what's wrong with Crecente's eyes?
...
On a more serious/on topic note, yeah i second the Ghost in the Shell comment. Nothing (IMO) beats that complete network integration.

-emory-

]]> <![CDATA[A Peepshow of the Best Futuristic Vision Systems]]> Gargoyle time. Hiro switches everything on: infrared, millimetter-wave radar, ambient-sound processing. The infrared doesn't do much in these circumstances, but the radar picks out all the weapons, highlights them in The Enforcers' hands, identifies them by make, model, and ammunition type. They're all fully automatic.
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a yellow sputtering light overrides the loglo. screaming red display flashes up on the goggles informing him that the millimeter-wave radar has noticed a stream of bullets headed in his direction and would you like to know where they came from, sir?
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The Enforcer has given up on bullets and whipped out another weapon. It says so right on Hiro's goggles: PACIFIC ENFORCEMENT HARDWARE, INC. MODEL SX-29 RESTRAINT PROJECT DEVICE (LOOGIE GUN). - Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash. Me want, plus one of the new Yamahas, with the new generation smartwheels.

TooMuchHeinlein

]]> <![CDATA[A Peepshow of the Best Futuristic Vision Systems]]> I'll settle for a terminator-like overlay.

strider_mt2k

]]> <![CDATA[A Peepshow of the Best Futuristic Vision Systems]]> And of course, you must remember all those futuristic eye surgeries

- Borg eye-laser attachment (helps with powerpoint presentations and playing with kittens)

- Minority Report eye transplant (to fool iris scanners ... it would have been easier to perform an iris transplant, but where's the fun in that!)

- Leela's (Futurama) prostetic eye to make her seem less cyclopic.

I think we can all agree that eye surgery is much better in the future! These days we still worry about Jessica Alba's haunted corneal transplants:

[www.rootatlas.com]

eyedude

]]> <![CDATA[A Peepshow of the Best Futuristic Vision Systems]]> Can I have Geordi's ocular implants instead of the Visor?

No? All right then, I'll take the Visor.

Zapp Brannigan's Girdle

]]> <![CDATA[A Peepshow of the Best Futuristic Vision Systems]]> And don't forget the humans-gone-cyborg world of Ghost in the Shell, were phone calls, surfing the internet, video conferencing, even copying and pasting memories are all available to anyone willing to augment their bodies. Good bye having to pretend to listen during lectures, hello a whole new level of zoning out.

NervousPervous

]]> <![CDATA[A Peepshow of the Best Futuristic Vision Systems]]> Uh... Clockwork Orange? Hello?

TinkerX

]]> <![CDATA[A Peepshow of the Best Futuristic Vision Systems]]> Man, I'd trade in my busted old eyes for some of that Six Million Dollar sweetness.

Sqube

]]> <![CDATA[A Peepshow of the Best Futuristic Vision Systems]]> @Tepoz: Blind Date looks right. I remeber a scene where instead of plugging his sonar glasses into the unit, he plugs an Atari into and sees Breakout all funky like.

BloggyMcBlogBlog

]]> <![CDATA[A Peepshow of the Best Futuristic Vision Systems]]> i started reading this article thinking i was going to make some cliche' curt post about how deus ex and/or ghost in the shell should have been on the list but i was plesently suprised to see deus ex make an appearance.

impressive io9 writter kevin kelly, most impressive.

tetracycloide

]]> <![CDATA[A Peepshow of the Best Futuristic Vision Systems]]> @BloggyMcBlogBlog: watch this clip... even better is that it is REAL!

[www.monstrous.com]

hypocriteoath

]]> <![CDATA[A Peepshow of the Best Futuristic Vision Systems]]> @BloggyMcBlogBlog: "Blind Date" or "The Incredible Mr. Limpet".

Tepoz

]]> <![CDATA[A Peepshow of the Best Futuristic Vision Systems]]> Anybody remeber an '80s movie where a guy goes blind and they give him "sonar" vision where reflected sound allowed him to see?

BloggyMcBlogBlog

]]> <![CDATA[A Peepshow of the Best Futuristic Vision Systems]]> How can you mention Geordi LaForge without the words "banana clip"?

92BuickLeSabre

]]> <![CDATA[A Peepshow of the Best Futuristic Vision Systems]]> Have you seen these sexy seethrough Lumus VR goggles?

[www.lumus-optical.com]

We might not be too far off from getting a heads-up display of information about people or places we look at. I'd love to see geographic art like in Gibson's weirdly retro-tech "Spook Country".

Liz Henry

]]> <![CDATA[A Peepshow of the Best Futuristic Vision Systems]]> It's a great list, but I might mention the low tech solution to better vision. In L. Frank Baum's Wonderful Wizard of Oz there are Emerald Glasses. If you can't afford to build a city out of emeralds just force everybody to were the same glasses with green lenses. They work on the gullible, and for all those people that are running around with infomercial sun glasses- I mean the gullible.

DeadWriter

]]> <![CDATA[A Peepshow of the Best Futuristic Vision Systems]]> and in another show of south park creators' love for sci-fi, the timmy/jimmy cripple fight is based on the fight scene between rowdy roddy and keith david in They Live.

hypocriteoath

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