The black-and-white night-time images are much sharper than those generated by thermal video cameras, and applications include battlefield vision, protecting buildings and helping car drivers avoid collisions at night.
Other finalists included biometric technology to recognize keyboard users by their typing behavior -- sparing users from memorizing dozens of passwords -- and a hand-held device for testing exposure to nerve agents.
By scanning the eye, it can also detect carbon monoxide or cyanide poisoning, or identify trauma to the brain.
Another company offered new high-strength fibers that get fatter when stretched and are highly resistant to blast damage, offering potential as special curtains to catch flying window glass in an explosion.
Also in contention was a 'face synthesis' device to create up to thousands of images from one photo, predicting how the subject will look in different lighting conditions, from different angles and with varying expressions or facial hair.
BIOMETRICS
A poll of investors, experts and industry players at the event identified biometrics and protection of critical infrastructure as key growth areas in coming years.
But Lee Buchanan, a former assistant U.S. navy secretary who now advises U.S. private equity group Paladin on investments, said the crucial point was to deliver more than just security
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I ask my brain to tell my fingers to move, and then my fingers actually move! It's a small thing, but it's amazing, really, when you think about it, that this works, it does exactly what I ask it to do. That reminds me of how lucky I am.
Ronald Harwood's script was translated into French, but the cast members were encouraged to improvise, did that help smooth any gaps?
Julian was very open to that, especially when we were recording the voice-over. But he would get to something in the script that didn't quite work and he'd say, 'Well, how would you say that?' And we would be able to contribute that way.
So much of Bauby's internal life is conveyed through your voiceover, which you recorded live in another room while watching your point-of-view on a monitor as it was being shot next door. Did you have any sort of ritual or preparatory technique to get you into the mood to record it?
The place I was in was like a studio, close to the set but in another room it was actually the ballroom of the hospital, because that was the biggest room. And there was a space for me there with a monitor, behind a curtain, where I would sit in my clothes and my make-up, of course without [the prosthetics]. But yes, I was in my bubble [Amalric leans down as if to cup his hands around a monitor], and trying to find that space and that voice. It wasn't very fair to the other actors, actually, who had to do all of their acting directly to the camera. And the way it was set up, the cameraman became kind of like an actor in the scene
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