Indeed, such a system wouldn't be out of place in the world of Minority Report, where iris scanners are everywhere and used not just for security, but to identify individuals in public places and deliver advertisements or messages tailored specifically for them.
ENGADGET: Minority Report at 10: a look at technology from today to 2054
He welcomes the latest report card because it highlights the progress of poor and minority students.
This ownership structure, the report contends, has slowed the implementation of reforms that would benefit minority shareholders.
Filibustering the conference report - to say nothing of the boast last month by Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid that opponents had "killed the Patriot Act" - is not.
Not only does it look like something out of Minority Report, but the SeaOrbiter is 100% sustainable.
In the science fiction future of the film Minority Report, Stephen Spielberg displayed his vision of driverless automobiles: a thousand gleaming pods of metal and glass flowing in perfectly coordinated highway traffic.
The interface of Minority Report was, in many ways, just as futuristic, but also more accessible -- something that we could see as an extension of existing technology rather than a shift to something completely different.
ENGADGET: Minority Report at 10: a look at technology from today to 2054
Democrats will produce their own final minority report, ripping most of the conclusions of the Republican majority.
In 1999, after the Macpherson report into the murder of Stephen Lawrence, the Labour government set police forces targets to boost ethnic minority officer numbers and although some achieved it many have found it difficult.
To be sure, Minority Report wasn't the first movie to portray gesture interfaces as the future of human-computer interaction, but most prior examples were deeply entrenched in the traditional mindset of virtual reality and cyberspace common in the 1990s -- think Keanu Reeves in Johnny Mnemonic.
ENGADGET: Minority Report at 10: a look at technology from today to 2054
Dr Surendra Kumar, Chairman of the Overseas Doctors Association, said the report had highlighted concerns that were being raised by doctors treating ethnic minority patients.
And of course, one of the most recognizable uses of a smart glove is to interact with a graphic interface as shown in the movie Minority Report.
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Through the wave of your hand, you can browse through TV shows and movies, in Minority Report-like fashion.
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