On a recent day, a dead ringer for Dora the Explorer who has a condition called osteogenesis imperfecta, or brittle bones, spun doughnuts around her first-grade teacher in a wheelchair; down the hall, a senior who could move only one eyebrow chatted with the help of a futuristic eye-tracking device called the EyeMax System.
InterActual's biggest coup to date is Warner's film The Matrix, a piece of futuristic eye-candy that has become a must-have in any respectable DVD library.
In the movie's futuristic setting, eye scanners are used to ensure that only legitimate users can access computer systems.
Dunham, who is sporting longer locks these days, wore her hair up in a ponytail with aggressively futuristic pink eye makeup.
The hoop's large diameter and thin plastic rim are artefacts of its time, and the spread of instruments and gauges on the dashboard provide additional cues: the retro-futuristic Autronic Eye rises like a periscope from the dashboard to peer through the windshield, and automatically dims the headlights when it "sees" oncoming traffic – a full 75 years before Audi had a similar bright idea. .
A powerful 2.4-gigahertz transmitter in the plane's belly beams the imagery back to the operator "live" from up to 1,500 feet away, where it can be viewed on a media player or through a pair of futuristic spectacles called "Eye Cameras" with a screen embedded in the right-hand lens.
Other futuristic touches include eye-tracking technology, which theoretically registers particular eye movements as commands – the better to keep drivers' minds on driving rather than fiddling with complex multimedia screens.
Their first offering, with an additional contribution by the colorist Muntsa Vicente, is "The Private Eye," a futuristic detective story in a world where the Internet is no longer used in the United States.
(A handful of students do focus primarily on highly futuristic concepts with an eye on the entertainment industry; in fact, the 'Minority Report' cars were designed by an Art Center graduate).
But people in the company said he heatedly argued against operating the company with an eye on futuristic strategies involving the television and the computer becaming one, when such a future seems quite distant.
