“In the ‘Iron Man’ trilogy, billionaire inventor Tony Stark uses a gesture-controlled hologram to draft new designs of the titular armor, sending virtual parts flying around his lab with the flick of a wrist. Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk—who is often compared to Stark by the tech press—is apparently creating the real-life equivalent of that fictional hologram system. ‘We figured out how to design rocket parts just w hand movements through the air (seriously),’ he Tweeted August 23. ‘Now need a high frame rate holograph generator.’ In a follow-up Tweet, he added: ‘Will post video next week of designing a rocket part with hand gestures & then immediately printing it in titanium.'”
http://slashdot.org/topic/cloud/musks-new-hologram-project-invites-iron-man-comparisons/