KAYE: Movies like "Minority Report" gave us a glimpse into what the future of computers might look like, but it wasn't all just movie magic in turns out. Reynolds Wolf gives us a first-hand look at the MIT lab that Steven Spielberg worked with in this "Edge of Discovery."</s>REYNOLDS WOLF, AMS METEOROLOGIST/CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): This isn't your typical computer lab. This is MIT's Tangible Media Group where they're envisioning the future of computer use by thinking outside the cubicle.</s>XIAO XIAO, MIT STUDENT: We're imagining a world where we're not limited by just the keyboard and the screen.</s>WOLF: You've probably seen the group's work in the movie "Minority Report." (</s>VIDEO CLIP COURTESY OF DREAMWORKS, "MINORITY REPORT") WOLF: But that's just one of the many projects the group is working on that combines real movement with virtual information. You can find students with 3-D pens that seemingly reach into the screen, and interactive models that could help people like architects create design.</s>DANIEL LEITHINGER, MIT STUDENT: We think that using real materials allows you to be more creative.</s>WOLF: Even the games we play are getting more interactive. It's ideas like this the group hopes will change the way we work, think and live.</s>XIAO: If you combine the different things that we're doing here and apply it to all the different surfaces that's available in your home and your office and your building, you suddenly have a whole environment that you can interact with.</s>WOLF: Technology with a human touch that could bring big changes. Reynolds Wolf, CNN.</s>KAYE: And this week's CNN special correspondent and environmentalist Philippe Cousteau is an on expedition to one of the coldest places on Earth, the Catlin Arctic Survey Ice Base. Next, we're bringing up amazing pictures and details of his journey where temperatures -- get this -- they dip to 40 below zero.
Computer of the Future Helps Transform Movie Magic Into Real World Technology