A good human-machine interface (HMI) shouldn’t just look good; it should offer speed and situational awareness.

I counted 201 buttons on the control panel (Figure 6, below). Each button has backlights with familiar white, red, and green indicating the active buttons. I tend to use the Software Control panel ...

In “TipBITS: How to Mirror Selected Screens in a Multiple Monitor Setup” (22 October 2019), I teased readers with a talk that automation guru Sal Soghoian gave at MacTech Conference a few weeks ago.

Apple has introduced an upgraded version of the “AssistiveTouch” accessibility feature in beta 3 of iOS 5. The feature takes the previously available custom gesture support to the next level and ...

Control panels of a pre-digitalization nuclear plant look quite daunting, with countless dials, buttons and switches that all ...

(1) A hardware control panel is a dashboard full of buttons, levers and dials for configuring and controlling the equipment. THIS DEFINITION IS FOR PERSONAL USE ONLY. All other reproduction requires ...

Top of an RBMK at the Leningrad plant. Control panels of a pre-digitalization nuclear plant look quite daunting, with countless dials, buttons and switches that all make perfect sense to a trained ...

We’ve all dreamed of controlling a Star Trek-style control panel, managing a computer’s functions through physical buttons and tactile commands. Well, some crazy bastard on the internet has really ...

The new plug-in version of Brilliant’s wired smart switch is simpler to install and just as easy to use. But still-limited integrations keep it from being truly brilliant. If you buy something from a ...