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Here's a brilliant completely new idea: what if you had big simple physical buttons and knobs?

Oh wait, that's how it actually worked before we've broken it…

Exactly. Read something awhile ago about NASA testing potential Mars rovers. They wrote off touch screens. They're cool and all but not ideal for situations in which you're being jostled about and you may be wearing gloves.

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