Fuelled by this week’s MSc “home­work”, I have been engaged in quite a few con­ver­sa­tions about innov­a­tions and near-future tech­no­logy. What I found was that is becom­ing more and more com­mon­place to find tech­no­logy in the real world that fea­tured in science-fiction stor­ies. What is scary, how­ever, is how fast the pre­di­citions in fic­tion are becom­ing true (per­haps there is a need to re-write Moore’s Law to reflect this?). In this first part of a series of my take on real-world use of fant­astic tech­no­logy I am look­ing at the Ges­ture User Inter­face — trail-blazed by Apple’s iPod Touch, iPhone and, most recently, the iPad. More >