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Technology in movies is evolving at a rapid rate which can be seen in the movies like avatar, inception etc. Film makers also prefer to target tech audiences nowadays, so that they get most out of their films. Here is a list(Not Sorted) of 10 movies which made use of fantastic technology.



10. 2001: A Space Odyssey

After 5 years of development A Space Odyessy was released in 1968 but wasn’t a hit at that time. A few decades later, it is considered one of the most influential and important films in modern history.The movie shaped how computers and the overarching ideas of technology would be portrayed in cinema.It encapsulates the wonder of technology and raises questions about how machines intersect with our lives.
The film had a tremendous amount of influence on films like WALL-E and TRON: Legacy.



9. Minority Report

Even today, Minority Report continues to influence the technology we use and develop. What made Minority Report so striking in 2002 was its realistic and reasonable projection of how the world would look in 2054. From tablets with instantly changing/updating content, to touch- and motion-based UI controls, to stores that greet you by name and ask about your last purchase, seems unreasonable.
Filmmaker worked with technology innovators and researchers to create this film and design its interface. It’s impossible to deny the influence Minority Report has had on consumer electronics and industrial design in general.

8. Collapsus

Collapsus movie is an exploration of the imminent energy transition from fossil fuels to alternative energy sources. What makes the film an the entire project is the way in which the material is created and brought together.

7. WALL-E

WALL-E is a story of a lonely, forgotten robot who loves Hello, Dolly! and manages to find love  and life. 
Its story is thought-provoking, especially in the context of how technology can make things easier, but also make living less of an experience. The visuals of the movie are very impressive indeed.

6. We Live in Public

In an award winning documentary, We Live in Public, profiles Josh Harris who was  a dot com millionaire from the Web 1.0. Harris, who the film bills as “the greatest Internet pioneer you have never heard of” was truly ahead of his time in his business plans for video and social communication over the Internet.
Harris was also ahead of his time when it came to living out his life in public. Long before Facebook, YouTube and Twitter made sharing personal photos, videos or missives commonplace, Harris was living out his life in avant-garde public displays and streaming that content online.
Harris also experienced the downside of living so publicly long before the privacy implications of Facebook became front page news.


5. Avatar

Not only is Avatar the most successful motion picture of all time, it is also one of the most technically impressive.
Using a 3D camera system, Avatar manages to toe the line between animation and live action in a way like never before. The visuals of the film, especially in 3D, go beyond what we can express in words. Avatar, like Star Wars before it, has set the tone for how technology will be used in film going forward.
 

4. Inception

We think Inception is one of the best films of the year. The film has many technical elements, but this is the sort of film that is more about the puzzle, rather than the gadgetry.
The visuals, the music and the overlying subject matter which the nature of the film necessitates, makes this one of the best science fiction thrillers to come out in years. 

3. Iron Man/Iron Man 2

One of the most impressive comic book films in recent years was Iron Man. It and its sequel Iron Man 2 manage to appeal to the die-hard comic book/tech geek, while still resonating with mainstream audiences.
In addition to that, Tony Stark and Stark Industries have some of the coolest gadgets around. In fact, aspects of the Stark character are purportedly based on a real tech titans.

2. The Social Network

When it was first announced that a “Facebook movie” was going into production, the world laughed out loud. When The Social Network was released, we stopped laughing.
Perhaps more than any other film to date, The Social Network effectively captures the experience of hacking code. The film is about much more than just the website Facebook, but by the same token, it still manages to effectively bring the online experience to the big screen in a way that accurately portrays the reality of the experience.

1. TRON: Legacy

When the original TRON was released in 1982, it was a breakthrough not only in how computers were portrayed on screen, but how computers and technology were used in the creation of motion picture.
Twenty-eight years later, the technical reception for TRON: Legacy is quite different. Combining not just a technical story, but also 3D visuals like Avatar and CGI motion-capture technology, this film is incredibly advanced.
It has been released on 17th Dec,2010.


A supercomputer is a computer that performs at or near the currently highest operational rate for computers.


10. SGI Altix ICE 8200EX
The SGI Altix system in Pau, France, has a capacity of 106.1 teraflops (one teraflop = one trillion operations per second). This supercomputer is run by Total Exploration Production and is the largest system housed with an industrial customer, according to Top500.org. Total is a gas and oil company that uses its supercomputer to do seismic depth imaging in order to locate underground hydrocarbon reservoirs. The company reports that the massive heat from the computer is being used to warm some of the building at the center.

9. BlueGene/P at IDRIS
The BlueGene/P Solution system at the Institut du Développement et des Ressources en Informatique Scientifique in Orsay, France, is just one of many IBM systems on the list. IDRIS works in partnership with another supercomputer center in Montpellier to offer its capabilities to the national scientific community.

8. EKA
This is the second year a supercomputer in India has broken the top 10. EKA, which means number one in Sanskrit, runs on a Hewlett-Packard system at Computational Research Laboratories, a subsidiary of Tata Sons in Pune, India. Tata Group is the largest conglomerate in India, bringing in $55 billion annually. CRL is focused entirely on high-performance computing. EKA's power makes it ideal for molecular simulations, fluid dynamics computations and crash simulations.

7. Encanto 
This system, at the New Mexico Computing Applications Center (NMCAC) in Rio Rancho, New Mexico, was built by SGI. According to an article in the United Kingdom's Register earlier this year, Encanto was being housed at an Intel facility (Intel made most of the processors in the Top500 list). Apparently, politicians in New Mexico are considering making the 133.2 teraflops supercomputer available for businesses and academic institutions to rent.

6. JUGENE
This computer, at the Jülich Research Centre (FZJ for short in German), in Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany is yet another that runs on IBM's BlueGene system. Back in the day, Jülich had three nuclear reactors for research, but they have all since been closed. Now the center has shifted its focus to broader scientific subjects and is participating in several grid computing projects in the European Union.

5. Jaguar
The Jaguar supercomputer at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Oak Ridge, Tenn., was built by Cray. If the name sounds familiar, that's because Seymour Cray dominated the computing world from the 1960s through the 1980s. His Cray-2 was the fastest computer in the world for four years in the '80s. Earlier this month, Jaguar got a makeover, upping its speed to 260 teraflops. Like many other supercomputers on the list, Jaguar is used to conduct a variety of security and scientific research.

4. Ranger 
Unlike the other supercomputers at the top of this list, Ranger is a system intended to be open. Sun Microsystems worked with the Texas Advanced Computing Center at the University of Texas and a team of academic institutions to build Ranger, which has one-half a petaflop (the next step up from teraflop) capacity. Researchers at academic institutions in the United States whose hearts beat faster at the possibility of crunching "parallel algorithms" and doing "scalable visualization," can submit proposals to have the system run their numbers.

3. BlueGene/P at Argonne
Another Big Blue system is the BlueGene/P at Argonne National Laboratory in Argonne, Ill. Argonne, along with Los Alamos, Oak Ridge, and Lawrence Berkeley, was part of the Manhattan Project, which developed the nuclear bomb in the 1940s. It's the first national laboratory in the country and one of the largest. Argonne still conducts nuclear research, but is also conducting research in environmental management, energy resources, and a variety of scientific fields.

2. BlueGene/L
IBM's BlueGene/L system at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in Livermore, Calif., is nothing to sneeze at. It can do 478.2 trillion operations in a second, which it does in collaboration with Los Alamos and Sandia. BlueGene/L can run nuclear computer simulations, replacing underground testing. Thankfully.

1. Roadrunner 
Earlier this month, Roadrunner became the first computer ever to reach the one petaflop per second level. Translation: it can do one thousand trillion calculations in the blink of an eye. That's 15 zeroes. That's so fast, even analogies can't touch it. Roadrunner, named after New Mexico's state bird, is operated by Los Alamos National Laboratory. IBM designed and built the record-breaking system, which will be used to do energy, astronomy, climate, human genome research, and to keep the nation's nuclear stockpile safe. Beep-beep.


           At number 10, its T-Mobile MyTouch 3G Slide. Prices range upto $500.





At number 9, its Motorola Droid. Phone has a stunning 3.7 inches display and special Web Applications.



At number 8, its the Motorola Droid 2. It has some extra features compared to its predecessor. Prices range from $100 to $580.



At number 7, its Samsung Captivate, which has an amazing display and Social Networking features.



At number 6, it is Samsung Vibrant. It has a beautiful AMOLED display with all multimedia operations supported. Prices varies from $50 to $460.


Now, there comes Google with Google Nexus One at number 5. Nexus also has an eye-catching AMOLED display and multimedia features.

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