Paging Philip K. Dick: MIT Develops Minority-Report-Style Floating LED Screens

Thousands of hovering, helicopter-mounted LEDs can make display screens in midair.

Screens are everywhere. On our buildings. In our cars (and outside them). In our pockets. You know the drill.

But except for a few interesting projected interfaces, like Pranav Mistry's SixthSense technology, the screens have been frustratingly grounded. Forget flying cars--where are our flying screens?

That's Flyfire, a hovering, programmable swarm of mini-helicopter-mounted LEDs developed by MIT's SENSEable...