There’s a lot of high-tech stuff going on in the recent Avengers movie, but perhaps even more interesting is the glimpse we get inito the future of computing through those user interfaces.

We’ve seen the inside of Iron Man’s helmet before, showing us the heads-up display that Robert Downey Jr. uses to monitor the status of his suit and to target all the bad guys. There’s a lot of information being flashed at him all at once and you almost get the sense that they represent the evolution of the homescreen widget.

You’ll also notice that a lot of the displays are transparent. That’s already happening, to a certain extent, by Samsung and other companies. And again, we get those fancy blinking widgets again. You might also remember the scene where a window can be “swiped” over from one workstation to the next.

There is a lot of detail going on with these user interfaces. You can thank freelance visual artist Jayse Hansen, who was responsible for that work in The Avengers. It does make me wonder if these UIs are closer in scope to the future of Windows, Apple, or something else entirely.

I also wonder if the menu at the shawarma place is going to look like this one day…

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More likely than not, these are the kinds of devices that you’ll find in places like Toys R Us rather than a serious gadget shop. In this way, the Iron Man 2 gadgetry is better suited to the younger set, especially if they’re not terribly interested in the functional features themselves.

Clockwise from the top left are a digital camera, MP3 player, spy camcorder, and SMS text messenger. The last of these is clearly borrowing some styling elements from RIM (or maybe Samsung), but I am curious to see how it actually works. Do they provide you with a SIM? is it bundled with service like Peek?

In any case, if you’re looking for a mild Iron Man 2 fix before the movie comes out, you can get in on some Vivatar-sourced action. Sort of.

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