In the film Minority Report, Tom Cruise utilizes amazing technologies from the year 2054, including talking billboards, jetpacks and, most famously, augmented reality gloves that allow him to interact with a computer interface without ever touching it. Needless to say, this very popular movie has inspired tons of technological innovations.

Two students from MIT, Tony Hyun Kim and Nevada Sanchez, decided to go a step further and the results are awesome to behold. The two developed mouse gloves for a class project last year. Using equipment that costs less than $100, they were able to create an interface where they could navigate, zoom and manipulate a map, all by simply waving their hands through the air. Now they've made the gloves wireless, which you can see in action in the video below.

Of course the technology is a little more complicated than that, but you get the idea. And while their invention nowhere near matches Tom Cruise's masterful manipulation of glove-based interfaces, it does make us believe that the technology of Minority Report is not that far away.

Here's a video of the glove mouse in action, along with the famous scene from Minority Report that inspired it:









Minority Report Scene









[via Popular Science]