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FCC Clears Google to Pursue “Minority Report”-Like Gesture System

• eesmith 8y ago
  "Minority Report" isn't even the earliest pop-culture reference: What about Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: > 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. > Zaphod waved a hand and the channel switched again. Also, the Taelon shuttles in "Earth: Final Conflict" used a gestural interface.