Look Ma, No Buttons: Futuristic touch-screen technology is quickly becoming a present-day reality on many consumer electronic gadgets

Posted on February 14, 2007 by Theo Mandel, Ph.D.

The high-tech computer touchscreens you see in the movies are not as futuristic as you think!

“In the 2002 thriller Minority Report, detective John Anderton, (played by Tom Cruise) uses gloved hands to manipulate images on three-dimensional charts. The depiction of futuristic technology was set in 2054.

The future arrived sooner than expected. The features that let Cruise’s character quickly sift through crime data represent a new breed of gesture-based, touch-sensitive technologies that are becoming a reality in 2007 €”and revolutionizing consumer electronics.”

Theo Mandel, Ph.D.

About Theo Mandel, Ph.D.

Theo Mandel, PhD, is an international expert in product user experience, usability strategy, user research, design, development, and usability testing. Dr. Mandel designs user-, technology- and business-based products, websites and software that meet client objectives and goals and enhance company brands, are successful and provide the appropriate user experience for customers.
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2 Responses to Look Ma, No Buttons: Futuristic touch-screen technology is quickly becoming a present-day reality on many consumer electronic gadgets

  1. Dieuwertje Spit says:
    June 15, 2007 at 1:36 AM

    Hello,

    A strange question from my side:
    Can someone tell me the name of the song with the text “look ma, no buttons” and maybe some background information? Is it an American song for example?

    Thanx,
    Dieuwertje

    Reply
  2. Theo Mandel, Ph.D. Theo Mandel says:
    June 15, 2007 at 7:49 AM

    I googled and could not find any song with the lyrics, “Look Ma, no buttons.”

    Reply

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