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sespindola on May 28, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: William Gibson: Seeing the Future in Science Ficti...

You can also find them in the movie. If I recall correctly, they were used by someone on the orbital Hilton and by the astronauts on the discovery.

Samsung recently used the movie as evidence of prior art against apple [1].

[1]: http://appadvice.com/appnn/2011/08/samsung-uses-2010-a-space...

rbanffy on May 28, 2012 [–]

2001. They are seen aboard the Discovery, but they don't show touch interfaces (unless George Lucas somehow got hold of the rights and disfigured a masterpiece).

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