First-Generation IRL Kino

**HewenttoJared** · 10-26-2011, 01:37 PM

http://www.popsci.com/technology/art...s-crowds-tokyo

I'm 90% sure that I NEED this.

**Roadhawg** · 10-26-2011, 02:02 PM

That is cool

**Just the facts** · 10-26-2011, 03:05 PM

Umm, watch the movie 'Real Genius' that came out in 1985. You will see a young Val Kilmer playing with one of these in his dorm room. That was 26 years ago.

You can see it at the 1:56 point of this video (or as luck would have it - in the screen capture below)

MadMonk · 10-26-2011, 04:02 PM

That's awesome. Can you imagine the fun you could have late at night in Roswell, NM?

**RadicalModerate** · 10-26-2011, 04:19 PM

Or at that Naval Installation just outside Honolulu, proper?

(Thank goodness the inventors of that marvel had their political priorities realigned back about four years before "Roswell" . . .)

**HewenttoJared** · 10-26-2011, 04:20 PM

I would probably decorate it first.

**RadicalModerate** · 10-26-2011, 04:27 PM

I'm thinkin' camo on top and blue--interspersed with white--on the bottom.
Depending, of course on the Virtual Terrain...or Searain . . .

MadMonk · 10-26-2011, 05:00 PM

Originally Posted by HewenttoJared

I would probably decorate it first.

HA! I KNEW that thing reminded me of something. The sound effects would also be a must.

**jn1780** · 10-26-2011, 05:05 PM

I'll wait for the Kino 2 or 3 thats at least 50 percent smaller. Kind of hard to spy on people with the first generation. Lol

**HewenttoJared** · 10-26-2011, 05:22 PM

I want to see this version in a movie floating "inconspicuously" in a room as the evil-doers discuss their plot without seeing the giant, humming sphere 4 feet away.