The Vintage Beauty of Soviet Control Rooms (2018)

Re:The Vintage Beauty of Soviet Control Rooms (2018) by aasasd on Thursday May 28, 2020 @05:41PM (#23343066)

Touchscreens are just evil in any sort of physically involved environment, e.g. a car or even a kitchen stove. You can have ‘good-looking and functional’ (with physical controls too), but touchscreens in such a setup are rather ‘good-looking and dysfunctional’.

Game controllers are the perfect example of ergonomically-tuned physical controls with sleek looks. And afaik the US military uses Xbox controllers in drone control or something like that.

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Re:The Vintage Beauty of Soviet Control Rooms (2018) by romwell on Friday May 29, 2020 @06:29AM (#23348330)

I hope one day we'll have shape-changing touchscreens which can grow physical buttons that can be pressed, and that could be operated without looking.

Something like a braille-capable touchscreen would already be a great improvement (concept art: [1][2])

This is technically 2.5D, and 3D would be even better (imagine a screen which can grow a joystick!).

While 3D-shape-shifting screens don't seem to exist even in SciFi, 2.5D displays are already being worked on, and would be a huge step up.

[1] https://www.yankodesign.com/2017/01/26/touchscreen-how-about...

[2] https://www.popsci.com/new-touch-screen-design-could-display...

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Re:The Vintage Beauty of Soviet Control Rooms (2018) by hoseja on Friday May 29, 2020 @02:31AM (#23346862)

I'm just hoping this won't bite the Crew Dragon in the ass one day.

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