Computer Displays on TV Programs

That's all special effects....afaik There is a nearly clear glass display being worked on at MIT, but not quite ready for prime time....

http://dailycaller.com/2014/01/22/mit-builds-transparent-computer-display-video/

Microsoft has the Hololens display which uses glasses to work.....

https://www.microsoft.com/microsoft-hololens/en-us

Real holography is still being developed, but still without much success....

I've never seen any of those shows.

The pool table size display sounds similar to the large screen vertical displays used in weather forecasting and election night vote reporting.

Just a thought.

Those are just large touchscreen monitors....

I think he means more something like this....like in Ironman

Like I said, TV's not my thing.

Good movie...cool computer

Most of the really fancy, hi-tech-looking technology and forensic science techniques are based on some fact but enhanced or miss-interpreted for dramatic effect. This is common place, as the real thing isn't nearly as interesting to watch.

Think, 1990's (ish) "MacGyver" TV program. Lots of science and physics concepts but a lot of it was enhanced to make the program better to watch (for instance you cannot use two industrial water blasters strapped to your back to jet-pack yourself out of a ships cargo hold).

A lot of the concepts are however based on some reality, either currently being in the real world prototype, lab or concept phase or in an early development stage with the possibility of becoming similar to what they portray on the show (artistic licence).

Thank you all. I knew it was too good to be true.

On another program, a fingerprint was photographed with a cell phone while in the air above the ocean and sent back to HQ in the U.S. The print revealed who it belonged to and was sent back to the plane in flight. Is this possible?

Not realistically, no. The conditions would have to be so unrealistic to allow the definition required to make out the fingerprint detail.

Now modern software algarothims can extrapolate things like partial faces and objects based on known variables (like one half of a face is likely to be the same as the other). This doesn't work well with unique shapes such as fingerprints, and is even harder for unique two dimensional objects photographed at odd angles.

More elements of that tech are present than absent. The rapidity of response is always questionable in the movies. After all, they only have one hour to solve the world crisis, and get ready for the next terrorist coming up the road. What balderdash! We scoop it up, and wolf it down like it was strawberry-peach ice cream.

Yea, show us the subcommittee meetings tabling the suggested proposal for task force interdisciplinary cooperation.

Let the public know that most of the time police and taskforce actions are just boring paperwork and methodical data analysis. Increase the average 45 minute length episodes on TV to that of the extended edition of the "Lord of the Rings" Trilogy to really give the average person a sense of what the real world is like.

Then make it ten times longer.

Yes it is possible, and is used today in preserving evidence....the problem is getting the proper lighting angles to show the ridges of the print clearly enough....this can take several tries, even with a cooperating party....I think to do it covertly would require a preconceived area that had been set up and tested for finger placement and then manipulating the subject into position some how....but yes it could be done....

http://www.evidencemagazine.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1959