Is Elon Musk an earthling?

[kandrathe]

Personally, I'm more interested in some of the other things he and his team have done. There's a couple things out there that his team has pulled together that's kind of down low, but incredible impressive. Remember Minority Report where Tom Cruise is manipulating the computer through complete hand gestures, Musk's team has done this with a combination of a camera software that has been integrated into a CAD/CAM software. He can manipulate any CAD/CAM drawing with hand gestures, zooming in/out, rotating, spinning, you name it and his team even went the extra mile and was able to project the images on to normal pane glass (nothing special about the glass at all, just like what you would see in a window) and have the image treat the glass as if it was opaque without it being opaque (ala Tony Stark's monitors in Iron Man).

I just saw this on the news this morning. The US Army is soliciting bids for building Iron Man suits. That 3D gesture cad/cam stuff is really very impressive. It's a clear game changer for user interface design for technology products, and before we can launch gesture input kiosks for everyday people, we'll need to establish a "standard" for a gesture vocabulary. Otherwise, it would be very confusing to do one thing to pump gas, another to get money, and yet another to pay for groceries, or operate your car.

One could probably compare him to Tesla on some of the ideas he comes up with and what can be done with them.

Yes, although I believe Tesla's ideas were considered closer to lunatic than Musk's.