Category Archives: Technology

Technology From Tom Cruise’s Minority Report Comes Back To The Future

BLOG UPDATE! We’ve added cutting-edge information to this blog about new technology from Minority Report making its way into everyday life. Enjoy. Technologically speaking, our world is a sponge: It absorbs the latest innovations as soon as they overflow into the public domain. And quite frankly, we here at TC.com couldn’t be happier. Among the unbelievably cool things it does, …

5 Days = 5 Chances to WIN the NEW Tom Cruise Blu-ray 5 Film Collection Pack

GAME OVER, ENTRIES ARE CLOSED, WE HAVE A WINNER! CONGRATULATIONS FATEMA (@Coffee_frost), YOU ENTERED THE CORRECT ANSWER FIRST. WE WILL BE CONTACTING YOU TO GIVE YOU YOUR ‘TOM CRUISE BLU-RAY COLLECTION’!!! For all of you who are curious about the correct answer to our Trivia Challenge question below, here it is! Q: Identify three technologies seen in the ‘Minority Report’ …

Minority Report Technology: Facial Recognition Used to Target Billboard Ads

‘Chief John Anderton’ (Tom Cruise) runs through a mall, his path punctuated by ads of his favorite products calling out to him as he tries to escape. Now, imagine yourself standing at a crosswalk, waiting for the light to change, when you notice a nearby billboard displays an ad for a running shoe, followed by a beer promo and then …

Minority Report Listed In Top 50 Best Sci-Fi Movies Of All Time

Complex magazine has released their list of Top 50 Best Sci-Fi Movies, and among them is Steven Spielberg’s Minority Report, which stars movie icon Tom Cruise.  The film is based on a short story by Philip K. Dick, who is regarded as one of the most influential sci-fi writers of all time. In addition to the captivating story line, Minority …

Minority Report Technology: Biometric Scanning the Future?

Out of all the Minority Report technology that has hit the market in the last few years, none is more exotic – or creepier – than the use of biometric scanning. But some publications, like Discover Magazine, have poked a few holes in the use of biometrics in quite the same way that the Tom Cruise-Steven Spielberg science fiction movie …

MINORITY REPORT TECHNOLOGY: New Mobile Device Platform From Texas Instruments Uses Gesture Interface!

Minority Report technology continues to jump from the screen of the Tom Cruise movie and into real life, this time with processors enabling gesture interfaces for mobile phones! New breakthroughs in mobile phone technology from microchip maker Texas Instruments looks to provide the leap forward with features people like Tom and Steven Spielberg dreamt about less than a decade ago, including …

More Minority Report Technology Comes To Transparent Displays!!

The technology portrayed in the Tom Cruise movie Minority Report continues to come to fruition in real life, this time with advances in the transparent displays Tom’s character used throughout the science fiction film! Those incredible clear-as-glass screens were one of the stylish visual elements director Steven Spielberg used to demonstrate writer Philip K. Dick’s vision of the future. Less …

XBox 360 Kinect Brings Minority Report Technology To Real Life!

http://www.engadget.com/2010/11/25/kinect-hack-lets-you-control-a-web-browser-using-only-the-force/ XBox Kinect not only brings the awesome world of motion gaming to the popular Microsoft game console, it also brings the technology of the Tom Cruise movie Minority Report to real life! The Kinect is shaping up to be this year’s Christmas hit by using the futuristic interface involving a camera, your body and… that’s pretty much it! The …

MINORITY REPORT TECHNOLOGY: Real Breakthroughs in 2010 Envisioned by Tom Cruise Movie!

Like a dream made real, Minority Report technology foreseen by the Tom Cruise and Steven Spielberg film continues to come to fruition all throughout the world. The team at TomCruise.com are technology and gadget lovers, so we try to stay up on all the latest developments jumping off the silver screen and into real life. But this month lends itself …

Minority Report Technology Made Real With Google Robot Cars!

The Tom Cruise movie Minority Report predicted a ton of new technology, but one of the most useful had to be the self-driving cars that whirled around director Steven Spielberg’s vision of the future. Well, the future is now! Technology giant Google unveiled findings from tests using self-driving robot cars and have gone pretty far with little to no driver …