The wrist rests look awesome! And by awesome I mean they look exactly like what they are, two giant chunks of foam sold at a ridiculous price.
Wrist rests and foam at 1:40, but don't skip!
Is it like in the movie?
It has nothing to do with any movie (which is something that makes it a bit difficult to search for more info about it at the moment ...)
The TRON (backronym "The Realtime Operating Nucleus") project was formed in the mid '80s at Tokyo Daigaku (Japan's top university of technology) to create a new next-generation standard for computers at all levels, from the smallest embedded computer to the largest mainframe. All should use a single new open standard and be interoperable.
Unfortunately, many aspects of the system were just too different from the established tech to gain any popularity outside Japan. It was too Japanese, and it was too difficult to port much software to it. Another reason might be that Microsoft has lobbied hard against it ...
The initial keyboard was more different from a standard QWERTY keyboard than the µTron keyboard is. (Think "The bastard child of TrulyErgonomic and an octopus") It was designed to type Japanese first, not European languages. The pointing device was not a mouse but a pen (like Wacom). The character set used in the beginning is completely different from ASCII or Unicode. Unlike Unicode it supports 100% of all Japanese characters. It even lets you encode a kind of vector graphics within text document so that you can encode the ancient Kanji glyphs for the names of rural Japanese villages where nobody still lives, etc.
The OS gained foothold within the Japanese industry, and is still widely used mostly in embedded systems.
There was also a "TRON House" built, where many functions were computer controlled. From the stove and the wardrobe to the central heating and the toilet. It must have been the most famous incarnation of TRON in the Western world. I have seen it on TV a couple of times in the early '90s.
