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| Hand Wave Control | ||
| Control an electronic or other device with gestures. |
| "You're wrong, honey," Al said seriously. "The l-channel is for news and factual information. The s-channel is for pleasure. I enjoy watching this way, but - He waved his hand and the circuit switched abruptly. The vivid swirls of color and sound winked out. In their place the placid features of the Westinghouse news announcer appeared. |
| Technovelgy from Solar Lottery,
by Philip K. Dick. Published by Ace Books in 1955 Additional resources -
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This is an earlier, less specific version of the idea of gesture controlled devices in Douglas Adam's 1979 novel A Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. See also the filing crystal from Samuel R. Delany's Babel-17 (1968).
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