Well, we've just been fingers-on with both the 23-inch Acer Aspire 5600U and the 27-inch 7600U in London, and we can report that the touch interface was totally fluid.

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The interface of Minority Report was, in many ways, just as futuristic, but also more accessible -- something that we could see as an extension of existing technology rather than a shift to something completely different.

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Recommendation 51 of the Report calls for strengthening of the interface between policy and science.

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And of course, one of the most recognizable uses of a smart glove is to interact with a graphic interface as shown in the movie Minority Report.

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Authors, especially, need to have a more nuanced way to report problems, preferably from within the Author Central interface so that they can deal with more than reviews in bulk.

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The report covers all DIVERSITAS activities including its work on the interface between science and policy making, developing cross-cutting networks, the Earth System Science Partnership, etc.

UNESCO: Social and Human Sciences