Your auto-drip coffee maker might be covered in buttons and features and timers.
Built-in playback buttons sit along the side of one ear cup for easy music controls.
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Instead of the roughly 20 actions that Gmail presents you with in the buttons on top and list on the side of the main window, Mailbox presents you with five.
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They may have swapped their Orange Julius cups for Jamba Juice , they may favor those rubber Silly Banz bracelets over blazers covered in pins and buttons, but teens in 2010 are facing a mirror image of the jobs environment in 1982.
The metal, an excellent conductor of electricity, is found in the thin membranes behind the on-off buttons in most electronics.
Under the same hand's middle and ring fingers sit two buttons in charge of chucking in-game grenades.
To the right are four buttons in a diamond configuration, numbered 5 through 8.
The dual-clutch transmission works via buttons in the center console that change the car from park to drive.
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Marketers then take the concepts to customers to get them to try out pads in lieu of buttons and other input methods.
More than anything, the idea was to demonstrate the unique key design, in which the buttons move diagonally, as opposed to up and down.
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At the Coach party, Mr. Wilkinson was wearing a blazer featuring gold buttons in the shape of toads in homage to Elsie de Wolfe.
Experienced harvesters, however, can pick 1, 000 buttons in an hour.
Thanks to accelerometers, gyroscopes and buttons in odd places, users can do things such as bring up in-game sights by looking down the plastic rifle's barrel, or steady their shot by pulling the faux weapon close to their arm.
This has been used by many researchers worldwide to create BCI-based applications that allow users to spell a word, identify images, select buttons in a virtual environment and more recently, even play in an orchestra or send a Twitter message.
"Frodo lives, " declared the flower children's buttons in the 1960s, but everyone here lives vividly, from Viggo Mortensen's Aragorn, Ian McKellen's Gandalf, Orlando Bloom's Legolas, Sean Astin's Sam and Elijah Wood's Frodo to Miranda Otto's radiant Lady Eowyn, who delivers, with joyous understatement, the movie's most rousing line: "I am no man!"
This is jarring and stupid and should never be done in any sort of video game (save those played on Facebook) and any game developer who thinks that placing Twitter share buttons in the middle of their dark fantasy RPG is a good idea should think again why it is we play games in the first place.
Clothes sold in its overseas stores are often too expensive, because they have the final buttons stitched on in Britain.
In a silver case with gold buttons, it was one of the properties in the now-defunct Time Museum in Rockford, Ill.
So, yes, in some contexts, buttons and other administrative debris of the traditional interface have run their course.
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You're not in a hallway pushing buttons given to you by the designer.
In touch mode, buttons and menus are spaced farther apart to reduce the chance of accidentally hitting the wrong one.
Four buttons arrayed in a circle bring up the command menu, play and pause songs, and shift forward and back.
In truth, the buttons just control how long the machine shoots fizz into your water so you can customize the carbonation.
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Rather, each button and combination of buttons results in a different attack.
Meanwhile, the layout on ROCCAT's new keyboard remains completely unchanged, with the same medley of macro keys and thumb-accessible buttons still in attendance.
The analog joysticks and shoulder buttons are in just the right place -- if you're used to playing console games, you'll be right at home.
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And I think Barack Obama knows that he is hitting the right buttons here in the South - not to be (unintelligible) - but here in the Bible Belt.
To make digital characters move in video games, we punch buttons with our thumbs or swing "nunchucks" around in the air, in the case of Nintendo's Wii.
Mohammed Narwaz, of Caerau, near Maesteg, who suffered intimidation at the hands of former Ku Klux Klan leader Alan Beshella, now has panic buttons installed in every room in his home.
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