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[[File:Baseshipcontrolinterface.jpg|link=Battlestar Galactica (2004 TV series)|frame|Who knew water could be so effective in piloting a ship?]]
{{quote|''"[The ship] won't move unless you're naked? That's very kinky, wouldn't you say?"''
|'''Aisha Clan Clan''', ''[[Outlaw Star]]''}}
One of the joys of reading or watching [[Speculative Fiction]] shows is the wonderfully bizarre touches an author can add, like the '''Unusual User Interface'''.
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== Fan
* In ''[[Tiberium Wars]]'', the Nod Avatars are presented as having a powerful mind/machine interface, with the pilot existing in a sort of dream-like state where the operator shares operations with a cold, mechanical AI intelligence that helps them perceive their surroundings, which comes in as a constant stream of pure data and filtered into an alternate virtual reality for the pilot.
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* The spaceship's core in ''[[Monsters vs. Aliens]]'' is controlled through a DDR-like dancepad. Luckily, Dr. Cockroach has a PhD in dance.
* ''[[Minority Report]]'' has screens that are activated by motion and touch.
** The interface used in ''Minority Report'' is actually becoming a kind of [[Truth in Television]], as several technologies have developed (some inspired by the movie) that work on similar principles. One is the multitouch interface, such as [https://web.archive.org/web/20070109224545/http://cs.nyu.edu/~jhan/ Jeff Han's research] and the [http://www.microsoft.com/surface/ Microsoft Surface.] Even closer to the movie is the work being done by [http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~johnny/projects/wii/ Johnny Chung Lee], where he emulates the interface in the movie using a Wii remote. However, the interface will never come to pass in the exact form depicted, because it breaks some obvious and crucial principles of ergonomics.
** The innovation in the Surface was having the interface on the display; Fingerworks produced a number of multitouch interfaces integrated with keyboards and keypads several years prior, but they remained high-end curiosities; the company ceased production and was later bought out by Apple, presumably for its patents.
** A gesture-based control system for Microsoft Windows was created using custom software driving a [[wikipedia:Kinect|Microsoft Kinect]] sensor device. Although Microsoft is reportedly considering releasing 'official' PC interface software, the Kinect interface could be considered to be a "technology demonstrator" rather than an actual product.
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* Pip from ''[[Sequential Art (webcomic)|Sequential Art]]'' [http://www.collectedcurios.com/sequentialart.php?s=659 has] a recurring nightmare about this.
* The David Hopkins webcomic ''Rework the Dead'' has the "purple light system" which allows species without limbs to use technology simply by looking at the control the want to operate and blinking
* ''[[Sinfest]]'' has fun with specialized game controllers. Behold the power of [http://www.sinfest.net/
* Cwynhild from ''[[Cwynhild's Loom]]'' can wirelessly access computer systems through her artificial right hand. She can also send electrical pulses through it, and it can fool DNA scanners by sending out false DNA signatures.
* ''God Mode'' on "[http://godmode.keenspot.com/d/20071012.html WiiTF!?]"
* ''[[Sluggy Freelance]]'' had Torg proposing a possible use for [[Bland-Name Product|Hogtendo SuuWii]] "hands-free motion control". [http://sluggy.com/comics/archives/daily/061210 3 pages later], Gwynn uses it in an unconventional way to play tennis. And boys are watching.
* ''[[Turn Signals on a Land Raider]]'' has a [[Dance Dance Revolution]] machine [https://web.archive.org/web/20160813225150/http://tsoalr.com/?p=270 installed] as a replacement control interface on "Iron Death" (a very old Land Raider). See the next pages for how this works.
== Web Original ==
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** [http://live.gnome.org/MouseTrap MouseTrap] by Flavio Percoco Premoli. It's a motion-tracking software allowing to use a webcam tracking head movement instead of a mouse. Gnome version is in Linux distributions for years, and there are clones.
* A number of different [[wikipedia:Brain-computer interface#Commercialization and companies|Brain-computer interfaces]] have actually been developed for the disabled and gaming. Hasbro's [[Star Wars|Force trainer]] is one of the latter. Most commercial versions are non-invasive and actually read subtle changes in your scalp rather than actual brainwaves.
** Feh, [[Atari]] did it in the 70's with [https://wayback.archive-it.org/all/20090325162638/http://www.atarimuseum.com/videogames/consoles/2600/mindlink.html Mindlink].
* The [https://web.archive.org/web/20130825191540/http://www.datahand.com/products/proii.htm DataHand] keyboard.
* The Kinect motion controller for the Xbox 360 was [http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-11742236 hacked within days of its release] to allow it to be used as a [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LC0bLDd98ho multitouch interface] with PCs, including Apple and Linux machines.
* The [[PlayStation]] Move is a close relative of the Wiimote.
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