Star Trek's Design Influence On Palm, New Tech

Posted by simoniker on Monday March 15, 2004 @10:12AM 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'."

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Re:Orgasmatron by WeaverBen · 2004-03-15 10:41 · Score: 0, Offtopic

10 kinds: Those who can count in binary, and those who can't.
Helpful hint... by Thud457 · 2004-03-15 10:59 · Score: 0, Offtopic

I find Walgreen's brand generic hydrocortizone cream (5%) to be just as effective and more economical.

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