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Star Trek's Design Influence On Palm, New Tech

Posted by simoniker on from the dust-puppies-and-tribbles dept.

kevcol writes "The San Francisco Chronicle has a fun article describing how many of the inventions of Star Trek have made early appearances, 2 centuries ahead of Captain Kirk's time. They talk with one of Palm's UI designers, who admits that '...my first sketches were influenced by the UI of the Enterprise bridge panels', and also notes: 'When we designed the first Treo... it had a form factor similar to the communicators in the original series. It had a speakerphone mode so you could stand there and talk into it like Capt. Kirk'."

3 of 418 comments (clear)

  1. Flamebait? Offtopic? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Who the hell is moderating this discussion?

  2. Re:Orgasmatron by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    It's in your mouth, slashbot. Go suck him off and then you will be funny. Really, you will

  3. Re:horrible by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    I own a Cube and a turbo slab. But ya know what. They are fuckin ancinet dude. Get the fuck over it. I did. If you want a good ui get OSX if you want to tweedle get linux or BSD. Who gives a flying fuck what gay ass shit Wesley did in TNG.

    In short, Duh, grow up slashbot. You ain't no special snowflake, you are just a fucking dweeb and it has been out of style for about 3 years now.