Hannibal Chew: I just do eyes. Just eyes…just genetic design…just eyes. You Nexus, huh? I design your eyes.
Roy Batty: Chew, if only you could see what I’ve seen with your eyes!
- from the move Bladerunner (1982)

Ridley Scott’s 1982 movie Bladerunner has been a favorite of mine for the longest time (along with Mamoru Oshii’s Ghost in the Shell Series). Apparently, someone at Google feels the same way – the rogue Replicants in Bladerunner were Nexus Six models (Google’s phone is called Nexus One), and the femme fatale in the movie played by Sean Young is named Rachael, which is the same name of the Nexus UI used in the Sony Xperia X10. The operating system is called Android.

Having worked on creating virtual worlds and CG characters for the last 3 years, and appreciating just how fast technology moves forward – sometimes I wonder just how long it will take…