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After Hours

Awesome tech in the movies: 10 instances

By Erin Carson August 12, 2014, 1:09 PM PDT

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Minority Report

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Minority Report

Touchscreens are a bit less impressive these days, but in 2002, manipulating a giant screen with gloves looked like a good time, even if it was in the pursuit of would-be criminals.

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Awesome tech in the movies: 10 instances

Tron Legacy

Tron Legacy

Sure, it’s pretty trippy to think about how one could get sucked into a videogame. The cooler piece of tech in this movie is the light cycleu2013 a sleek motorcycle that dissolves into something a little thinner and a little longer than the case for your glasses. And it glows. Beauty and function — get on it, Honda.

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Back to the Future

Back to the Future

It’s weirdly easy to imagine a mechanic walking out of the garage, wiping an oily wrench with a towel, to tell you your flux capacitor’s busted. Between parts and labor, we don’t want to know what Marty McFly’s bill might be.

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Her

Her

Last year, movie-goers took a look at a future operating system so advanced, that humans — or maybe just Joaquin Phoenix — fell in love with it. Reality check: Siri’s going to be lonely a while longer.

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Iron Man

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Iron Man

From the suit itself to the interface Jarvis (wondering how Jarvis and Samantha from Her would get along, by the way), Ironman offers a lot of tech. Most astounding, especially if you’ve seen Iron Man 3, is how just one guy makes so many suits.

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Forget teleportation, try transferring conscious to an alien being.

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Awesome tech in the movies: 10 instances

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

The achievement of the tech in Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind is converting what looks like a large colander into a machine that can pinpoint and erase memories.

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Inception

Inception

Don’t ask for an in-depth explanation, but it does look like there are a lot of tubes involved in tapping into a sleeping person’s dreams.

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