Freed from traditional design restrictions, designers created a controls layout devoid of intimidating clusters of buttons and knobs.
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The center console looks like a layer cake, with a large screen sitting atop several rows of buttons and knobs.
The ideal solution, then, would involve car-makers hard-wiring the necessary controls for the top 20 percent of functions into physical buttons and knobs.
But once the wizard was revealed as the little old man behind the curtain pushing around a bunch of buttons and knobs, the image was destroyed.
The original Maschine controller allows more direct hardware access to oft-used parameters and two separate LCD screens to keep the user tied into the software without glancing at it--the 12.6 x 11.6-inch footprint has plenty of space to keep the buttons and knobs intuitive without much fuss.
The patent application also covers what could be controlled using the touchscreen, including settings like the focus detection area, flash adjustment, ISO, white balance, and exposure correction, to name a few -- all of which will surely be welcome to some, but we just hope the touchscreens will be accompanied by at least a few buttons and knobs for us old curmudgeons.
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The microcontroller-driven stage allows anyone to quickly create a piece of miniature theater using handcrafted puppets and an impressive selection of buttons, knobs and switches -- all lovingly handcrafted out of wood on this prototype.
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The walls are lined with bulky green and silver machinery, an array of knobs with buttons and switches covering every metallic surface.
Nothing wiggles, nothing feels like it's in danger of breaking off, and all of the materials seem to be there for a reason: the tops of the jog wheels are grooved to feel like vinyl, for instance, and knobs, faders, and buttons are all coated in non-slip rubber or plastic.
Pick a model with sizable knobs and buttons for the audio and climate control systems along with power-operated mirrors to help reduce the amount of grip strength needed and reduce pain associated with turning or twisting motions.
Ten years after the outbreak, apartment and office blocks still boast of how many times daily they sanitise lift buttons, hand rails, door knobs and almost all public surfaces.
But the new payment plan assumes that changing a whole industry is as simple as turning a few knobs and pushing a few buttons on the Medicare dashboard.
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