Eh, it feels unpleasantly narrow-band only-book-I've-ever-read Internet-cliché to pull out a quote from Mr Douglas Adams, but this bit from HHG has always stuck somewhere in my head:-
"The machine was rather difficult to operate. For years radios had been operated by means of pressing buttons and turning dials; then as the technology became more sophisticated the controls were made touch-sensitive --- you merely had to brush the panels with your fingers; now all you had to do was wave your hand in the general direction of the components and hope. It saved a lot of muscular expenditure of course, but meant that you had to sit infuriatingly still if you wanted to keep listening to the same programme."
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And Italian households will never be able to watch more than a couple of milliseconds of each channel at a time.
Posted by: Gary Turner | April 5, 2003 12:31 PM
Eh, it feels unpleasantly narrow-band only-book-I've-ever-read Internet-cliché to pull out a quote from Mr Douglas Adams, but this bit from HHG has always stuck somewhere in my head:-
"The machine was rather difficult to operate. For years radios had been operated by means of pressing buttons and turning dials; then as the technology became more sophisticated the controls were made touch-sensitive --- you merely had to brush the panels with your fingers; now all you had to do was wave your hand in the general direction of the components and hope. It saved a lot of muscular expenditure of course, but meant that you had to sit infuriatingly still if you wanted to keep listening to the same programme."
Posted by: Kevan | April 7, 2003 09:25 AM
Activation/deactivation gestures!
Posted by: Richard Soderberg | April 20, 2003 07:27 PM