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He added that this week he will release a video of \"designing a rocket part with hand gestures & then immediately printing it in titanium.\"
Will post video next week of designing a rocket part with hand gestures & then immediately printing it in titanium
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) August 23, 2013
Musk has been said to be one of the inspirations for the movie version of Tony Stark, the billionaire engineer who becomes Iron Man by putting on a high-tech suit, but now Musk seems to be using some of Stark's inventions as inspiration. And if you need additional proof of that, when Iron Man producer Jon Favreau tweeted to Musk about the new project, Musk replied by saying, \"We saw it in the movie and made it real. Good idea!\"
@Jon_Favreau Yup. We saw it in the movie and made it real. Good idea!
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) August 24, 2013
Favreau said in Time Magazine's 2010 TIME 100 Issue that \"When I was trying to bring the character of genius billionaire Tony Stark to the big screen in Iron Man, I had no idea how to make him seem real. Robert Downey Jr. said, 'We need to sit down with Elon Musk.'\"
At Space X, Musk has previously designed the Falcon 1 and Falcon 9 rockets. In 2008, Space X received a $1.6 billion contract from NASA and in 2010 the Falcon 9 was launched. Space X did not immediately respond to ABC News' request for comment about Musk's rocket design plans.
Gesture-controlled interfaces and software isn't science fiction anymore -- devices like the Leap Motion are big first steps for the technology, but it doesn't always work as promised and Musk likely has much bigger plans, considering he has a tendency to dream big. On Aug. 12, he released his plans for the Hyperloop, a high-speed train or transportation system, which is similar to the way the Jetson family moved between rooms.
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