They offer nice user-friendly menus where one can press buttons to solve problems.
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Fusion creates live 3D models of both people and objects, while Interactions adds a whole variety of recognizable gestures to the Kinect for Windows SDK ("push-to-press buttons, grip-to-pan capabilities, and support for smart ways to accommodate multiple users and two-person interactions, " says Microsoft).
On the plus side, the keypad is awesome with large, easy-to-press buttons that even the fattest fingers would have no trouble using, and the screens are bright and reasonably colorful (though the 220 x 176 resolution never lets you forget that you're dealing with a lower-end device here).
It sure beats having to press tiny buttons on the side of a watch case.
He or she runs along a flat, vibrantly colored gamescape as you press the buttons on your controller.
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Sitting in a tiny glass capsule, Gerard will get to press the buttons and pull levers that operate Samson and lift up loads, the first member of the public to ever take the behemoth's controls.
And social ties are much more likely to press our emotional buttons than professional ones.
The shoulder buttons have been pushed more to rear to be easier to press, while the action buttons and D-pad have better tactile feel and responsiveness.
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He knows which buttons to press and where there's room for a little diversion.
For example, if you have identified a heteroscedasticity problem in your data, there are various buttons to press that can cure it for you.
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The economy is massive and so, as a consequence, no matter what levers and buttons we press, sometimes it doesn't move as quickly as is needed to provide relief to so many of our constituents.
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It's a little better than the design method used on the Droid DNA, where the power button is completely flush and quite difficult to press, though the buttons here still gave us trouble from time to time.
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For five years we have heard, principally from those who wield executive power, of a claimed need to make fundamental changes in this country, to change the world's particularly the Muslim world's perception of us, to press "reset" buttons.
The brainchild of two British design companies, the nanny is shaped like an egg cup: slide the toy in, and it takes over, using tiny motors to help it press the Tamagotchi's buttons.
In-app navigation is generally achieved via a series of nested screen, back buttons and long-press menus.
All of these buttons require a firm press, rather than a tap, and while you won't accidentally activate the controls, registering input can take a bit of effort.
Then again, these keys also seem oddly designed: because the icons for home, etc. are raised, it's tempting to press them as if they were physical buttons.
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While both the left and right mouse buttons do require a solid press, they're large and responsive all the way up to the apex of the mouse, and there's actually only a single spot (on the extreme upper-right-hand corner of the right mouse button) where it won't actuate if pressed down.
All of the buttons had a nice tactile response to each press that was free of mush, making it a pleasure to fire off weapons at the other karts in our race.
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The Flex tracks your sleep quality as well, but the approach here differs from other Fitbit products: whereas the Fitbit One and Fitbit Zip have a key you can press to enter sleep mode, the Flex has no buttons at all, so your only recourse for logging sleep is to use the app or website.
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We wish the backside shoulder buttons were positioned at an angle because they were difficult to press with a phone attached.
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Using a thumb to control the navigational buttons as most would do, I found myself to accidentally press down or left instead of the center Select button.
That 0.1 numbering gives a good indication of just how light the visible feature set might be, though -- other than an existing update to substitute the virtual menu button for a long-press of the home key, the interface changes are mostly limited to dedicated buttons for switching browser tabs and between different cameras.
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And while the new page-turning buttons--far smaller than those on the last model--are harder to press accidentally, they can require a split second longer to find with a thumb, momentarily interrupting the reading experience.
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