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Unusual User Interface

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Unusual User Interface	comment	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. Want to make your Cyborg or Ridiculously Human Robot seem truly technological? Have them plug a phone jack into their skull to browse the web, or maybe even use Augmented Reality. Maybe you'd like to wow the audience with a truly spectacular piloting system for a spaceship? Have a Holographic Terminal serve as the flight controls. Or heck, maybe you just want to have the universe-destroying superweapon be triggered by interpretive dance. Point is, there are more ways than a keyboard, knobs, or a steering wheel to tell a machine what to do in sci-fi, and here are some of those ways. If the user plugs directly into a machine, this is the subtrope Brain/Computer Interface.
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Unusual User Interface / int_11947b38	comment	In the Apparatus table of Pinball Deluxe, playing pinball is the only known way to operate the titular machine, a Black Box of unknown origin.
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Unusual User Interface / int_12ffd3e9	comment	Megas XLR is a Humongous Mecha sent from the future with an advanced alien interface. When Coop bought it from a junkyard, he modified it to be piloted from a 1970s Plymouth Barracuda with a heavily modified dashboard. What do you do if you want to go faster? You step on the gas. Need to know how much energy is still available? Check the fuel gauge. Want to fire a more powerful laser? Turn on the high beams. Diving in molten magma? Turn on the A/C. In addition to the steering and pedals, the car-robot came equipped with no less than seven video game controllers: the Atari joystick, the NES controller, Genesis, SNES, PlayStation, a DanceDanceRevolution pad, and just for good times, a microphone. Alongside that, buttons that changed function as the plot required ("Missiles," "More Missiles," "All Da Missiles!," "5 Minutes Until End Of Episode," and "Exactly the same button Coop just used like five minutes ago"), and you've got a car that only Coop can drive (Kiva failed miserably the one time she tried). Then there's the manual override, which consists of dancing. Though in that case, it doesn't allow weapons systems to be utilized and Coup is so out of shape that it's only useful for short fights. Megas' back seat has a holographic control panel with display in the back seat, that Kiva only knows how to use. It seemingly activates if you motion like you're typing.
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Unusual User Interface / int_136770ce	comment	In Jeff Noon's Vurt you access the shared virtual world/alternate reality/drugstate of the Vurt by sucking differently coloured feathers.
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Unusual User Interface / int_15ef0cd9	comment	Batman Ninja has the Joker transported to Japan, where he has a special mecha cockpit made of viewscreens in the form of Japanese tapestries, and a console based on a shogi board. The latter represents his Chessmaster status, as he is able to hijack control of other mechs and control/combine them.
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Unusual User Interface / int_176e6280	comment	We Are Our Avatars: During the investigation of a submarine in the world of 3E, Marcia speculates that it might be controlled by an arcade machine. Turns out she was right, and the thing is even powered by quarters.
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Unusual User Interface / int_18cbb00e	comment	In Tenchi Muyo! GXP, Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain Seiryo's (un)Cool Ship, the Unko, is controlled in combat by a giant Bingo game. The entire scurvy crew of Space Pirates sit in front of boards, and maneuvering thrusters fire when a called number is on one of the cards; they return fire whenever someone gets "Bingo". Granted, the Hat of the ship is "Good Luck", but it's definitely weird.
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Unusual User Interface / int_1c5e55fc	comment	One of the alien ships in The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension had its controls set up to be operated with one's toes. Fortunately for the protagonist the gun turret controls worked by hand.
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Unusual User Interface / int_25305527	comment	The controls for playing The World always involve a PlayStation controller, a keyboard, and a headset, the latter being the unusual part. It simulates a three-dimensional environment in the game (from the view point of the character, maybe) and three dimensional sound and responds to both head and eye movement. It also operates neurally, though the degree is unspoken as it isn't made a big deal until The World R:2. A fair guess is that most people playing the game assume their character's gestures are procedurally generated. The real kicker, for series fans, is that the neural aspect does not factor into the cause of the coma victims/Lost Ones at all.
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Unusual User Interface / int_271c1469	comment	In Death Parade the control screen that Castra uses are boxes of color in a stained-glass formation, without any overt indicator of what bar various guests go to, and yet she directs them with precision. The skull she wears may have something to do with it.
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Unusual User Interface / int_2ee2a6b6	comment	In Jake 2.0, Jake has nanites that allow him to control computers with his brain. Interestingly, he doesn't get any feedback from this interface, so if he hacks a computer, he still needs to look at it in order to read the information.
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Unusual User Interface / int_2ef7cb74	comment	Characters in Lyrical Nanoha normally use holographic keyboards when typing, but the Numbers in Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha StrikerS use holographic piano keyboards.
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Unusual User Interface / int_2f1032e5	comment	Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron-Blooded Orphans goes into horrifying depths with how its special interface, the Alaya-Vijnana System, works. It's an interface that grows with the pilot, so it has to be put in when they are extremely young. The system can be implanted multiple times, but if it goes wrong it can paralyze the pilot and eventually kill them. To make it worse, these pilots are usually "Human Debris", a special class of "disposable" human that their employers/owners treat with little regard. And then of course there's the special case of Ein Dalton...
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Unusual User Interface / int_2fee008d	comment	Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann appears to have a similar system in Ganmen. Simon describes it as grabbing the control sticks and the movements just come to his head... then it's never even mentioned again. Then again, Ganmen are Spiral-powered and it's entirely possible that they are controlled through the pilot's fighting spirit.
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Unusual User Interface / int_34b7ce64	comment	Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency: The Regius Professor of Chronology uses an abacus to control his Time Machine. Since it's mentioned that literally anything placed in that particular spot will become the control system, this is actually one of the less bizarre options.
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Unusual User Interface / int_35bceb50	comment	The Manga Shakespeare version of Hamlet is set in a futuristic (if a little used) cyberpunk world. Polonius uses a Holographic Terminal that seems to be controlled by a staff of some sort, and all letters and notes delivered in the play are in the form of small capsules that plug into ports on the characters' wrists (or in Horatio's case, forehead).
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Unusual User Interface / int_3c65a1d1	comment	The genetically engineered Abh from Crest of the Stars have one extra sensory organ in the middle of their forehead designed to interface with the sensors of spaceships in a read-only way. The flight controls of their ships consist of a small keyboard built into the right arm rest of the pilot's chair, while the left arm rests in an elaborate glove serving as a combination throttle/stick. Fleet Commanders have what at first looks like a ceremonial sword or baton that they just like to swing around while giving orders to look dramatic. No, that baton is actually a communications device: depending on how it's swung, different orders can be instantly relayed to the entire fleet.
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Unusual User Interface / int_3d22c68b	comment	Mobile Suits being controlled by thought alone isn't anything new, though how it was done was. The Quebeley Mk-II used by Puru Two and the Quin Mansa of Mobile Suit Gundam ZZ were both controlled by mental commands via a special headset. As well, the Bio-Sensor and the Psychoframe used on the Zeta Gundam, Double Zeta Gundam and Nu Gundam worked hand-in-hand with the pilot's controls, making it much more maneuverable. And, if the person was pissed off enough, much more powerful.
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Unusual User Interface / int_41d5af1a	comment	Cell phones in the Total Recall (2012) remake appear to have been replaced with a chip and several wires implanted in the hand. One can simply hold the fingers to the ear and mouth to talk or put it on any glass surface to project a visual image. As Quaid finds out, they can also be used as a tracking device, so he uses a piece of broken glass to cut his "cell phone" out.
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Unusual User Interface / int_43a9c333	comment	Cowboy Bebop has a fighter ship that drives like a motorcycle.
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Unusual User Interface / int_44014b66	comment	This device was so unusual and exotic, it was used as the pilot's controls for the "ship" in the movie Contact.
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Unusual User Interface / int_44127c7c	comment	Power Rangers: Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers: Tommy remote controls the Dragonzord by playing notes on his Dragon Dagger, which other characters call a "flute" (even though it sounds like a trumpet). He only ever uses two note sequences for all of the various things this mech can do. (The Dragonzord did have a cockpit, which he used a grand total of once.) Power Rangers Wild Force: Zen-Aku also has musically-controlled Zords. Dr. K of Power Rangers RPM can control the entire lab via her violin. Some of the Megazords seem to be directed by the Rangers waving their hands over [insert cool object here]. One incredibly unintuitive system used in Power Rangers Mystic Force had the Rangers sitting in little pods on a checkered surface, and directing the Megazord by way of chess moves. In the heat of battle.
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Unusual User Interface / int_44fe781e	comment	In Neon Genesis Evangelion, the Eva units are controlled with a direct neural interface with their pilots, via the LCL and the A10 nerve clips (those joysticks are just for fine manipulation and weapons control which are properly not even necessary with a high enough sync-rate). Side effects may include sympathetic pain and injuries in direct proportion to the synchro-rate, the Evas going into sudden unstoppable rampages, being a helplessly immobile and vulnerable sitting duck at very low synchro-rates, or total tangification due to a very high synchro-rate. Reasons #527, 528, and 529 why it sucks to be an Eva pilot. Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann appears to have a similar system in Ganmen. Simon describes it as grabbing the control sticks and the movements just come to his head... then it's never even mentioned again. Then again, Ganmen are Spiral-powered and it's entirely possible that they are controlled through the pilot's fighting spirit.
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Unusual User Interface / int_4522fd1	comment	In the Whateley Universe, more than one deviser goes with the datajack. Techno-Devil has a shaved mullet, with an exposed datajack on each side of his head. Jericho has one as well. Merry doesn't even need that much (she just has to be near a fast CPU hooked up to the internet, and her mind can literally dive into cyberspace). Since that is in fact her mutant power it may be debatable if it fully counts for this trope, but it's the closest thing to the 'cyberspace experience' depicted in the various stories so far. For another example of 'unusual interface', Samantha Everheart used to have the nanotech-based AI known as 'Hive' in her body until very recently (nowadays it's more like it is her body). For the most part, the two would just 'talk' to each other in her head, but every so often there was sensory feedback. And yes, the nanites in turn could interface with other communication and computer systems.
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Unusual User Interface / int_49a0a477	comment	Ah, Snow Crash. Put on a pair of Cool Shades, and suddenly you're on the Street! Or build a gigantic tank for a cripple and steer it with voice commands.
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Unusual User Interface / int_4be3aedd	comment	Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers: Tommy remote controls the Dragonzord by playing notes on his Dragon Dagger, which other characters call a "flute" (even though it sounds like a trumpet). He only ever uses two note sequences for all of the various things this mech can do. (The Dragonzord did have a cockpit, which he used a grand total of once.)
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Unusual User Interface / int_4f6620a5	comment	Taelon shuttles in Earth: Final Conflict are piloted using a gesture based system, including a bow-and-arrow like move for firing the weapons. Similarly...
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Unusual User Interface / int_5103ad5	comment	Starwalker: While controls exist some people have cerebral implants to access computers and holograms are used by the computer to display information (and as an aid to input).
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Unusual User Interface / int_53a73ca0	comment	In Star Wars: The Clone Wars, Umbaran fighters and other vehicles are controlled entirely through hand motions in a Holographic Terminal bubble cockpit, making it very hard to fly without training or experience.
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Unusual User Interface / int_54027ef1	comment	In Land of the Lost (1974), pylons were controlled by arranging different colors of crystal on a glowing grid at the top of a stone pedestal. This was made insanely difficult by the sheer number of possible combinations of colors, as well as the tendency of crystals to blow up, get hot, generate force fields, or whatever if they actually came into contact with one another. (But then, if it was easy to operate the portal-opening pylon, the Marshalls could've just camped out inside it for a few days until they triggered a portal leading home.)
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Unusual User Interface / int_5690420f	comment	In the DuckTales (1987) episode "Where No Duck Has Gone Before", the steering mechanism for the Kronk ship looks like a glowing ball. The pilot drives the ship by manuevering his hands around it.
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Unusual User Interface / int_58907201	comment	Sinfest has fun with specialized game controllers. Behold the power of Wii PitchforkTM(R), Wii Crucifix, Wii Vandal aerosol can (for Graffiti Hero), Wii ScytheTM(R)... and... er... Wii Pimp Cane.
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Unusual User Interface / int_59735062	comment	In Mankind Divided, the Neural SubNet allows hackers called Rippers to render secure networks they are breaking into as virtual reality environments, complete with network security measures being anthropomorphized as guards or rendered identical to physical security measures in the "real world" like laser tripwires. Users can use the Neural SubNet to chat in virtual reality as well.
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Unusual User Interface / int_5a9aaefa	comment	The Liandra from Babylon 5: The Legend of the Rangers has a gesture-based weapon system, where the gunner floats in a virtual reality representation of the environment around the ship, and punches and kicks enemy vessels to fire at them. (Yes, this is as silly as it sounds. Made worse by the sound effects, which made it seem like the gunner was making pew-pew sounds.)
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Unusual User Interface / int_5c897f4a	comment	Similar to the Terminator example above, Schlock Mercenary shows resident Mad Scientist Kevyn Andreyasn sneaking data past his guards by playing it as audio, modem-style, to an AI on the other end of the communications link.
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Unusual User Interface / int_5cdad167	comment	Minority Report has screens that are activated by motion and touch. It also shows one of the minor drawbacks of such a technology: at one point, Tom Cruise reaches over to shake someone's hand while wearing the interface gloves, which causes all the files he's working with to collapse into a corner of the screen. 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 Jeff Han's research and (what was originally called) Microsoft Surface. Even closer to the movie is the work being done by 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. On the other hand, the "small screens as animated floppy disks" to move data from one workstation to another by physically removing them from one and inserting them into another seems strangely dated and inefficient now. Although it anticipated multitouch in some ways it failed to embrace wireless networking, which was a relatively new but easily available technology at the time the film came out. A gesture-based control system for Microsoft Windows was created using custom software driving a 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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Unusual User Interface / int_605dd875	comment	Stargate-verse: Stargate SG-1: Human-form replicators can interface with technology (particularly Earth computers) by sticking a body part, usually a hand, directly into the machine. Apparently this also works on humans, as the human-form replicators can literally get inside their victim's heads (though it is not exactly painless for the victim). Goa'uld ships are usually controlled by sticking your hands on a pair of big red orb-things and... then somehow you can drive the ship without doing anything else that's visible. Presumably it's a telepathic interface or something. In Stargate Atlantis a lot of Ancient and Wraith technology is operated by thinking at it. Or in the case of the Asgard, moving identical rocks around to different, unlabeled circles on a panel. (Maybe just bad interface.)
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Unusual User Interface / int_6084d553	comment	The massive Gundam-esque "Combots" in Metal Fatigue used an unusual hybrid of conventional controls and what appeared to be a kind of motion-capture pedestal. They were crewed by two to five individuals, one of whom acted as the main 'pilot' by standing on the pedestal, their movements being converted to movements taken by the combot itself (in one cutscene, a pilot holds a hand to the side of his head whilst using a communications link - the combot is shown mimicking the movement. Considering they have large weapons attached to these arms, one hopes they don't get an urge to scratch themselves too often...) and the rest operate generic looking consoles.
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Unusual User Interface / int_61028f2	comment	Johnny Mnemonic had a complex computer network that you operated with a special pair of glasses, gloves, and apparently a will-sensor, since Johnny never seems to do anything with his hands that could be interpreted as a proper control gesture.
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Unusual User Interface / int_6196490	comment	The Ghost in the Shell universe pulls this to its ultimate conclusion. Anything feasible goes. In addition to the standard back-of-the-neck jacks, there's communication with computers using speech alone, eye-to-eye laser communication, the ability to read barcodes off a page of paper, wireless network connections, and the author hints about a greater variety, but claims he chose to stick mostly to jacks-in-the-head because it was easiest to represent in the manga. The reason (some) cyborgs used keyboards rather than direct interfacing was to avoid them catching a virus or getting hacked. The mechanically-enhanced fingers were just to enable cyborgs to type faster than humans.
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Unusual User Interface / int_623d2843	comment	In Skinned by Robin Wasserman, this is available to the general public, but most people don't have it.
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Unusual User Interface / int_626731f6	comment	For the NES in general, there's the Robotic Operating Buddy. While playing one of his games, you would hit Select to switch controls to influence R.O.B. rather than your character, and then hit a second controller button to transmit a direction for him to follow, which involved moving his arms vertically, rotating them horizontally, or opening/closing his hands to manipulate other real-world objects situated around him.
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Unusual User Interface / int_643cd5f7	comment	In Cube Zero, the advanced programmers from upstairs use an alternate keyboard connected to their mechanical gloves to use the Cube's operating systems much more efficiently.
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Unusual User Interface / int_658312dc	comment	Mandroid: The titular Mandroid is controlled by a neural interface helmet, and a keyboard on a treadmill.
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Unusual User Interface / int_66394ca4	comment	Neuromancer practically invented this trope, especially as regards the Cyberpunk genre.
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Unusual User Interface / int_68c7e5cd	comment	Macross Frontier had VF-25 "Messiah" fighters that could be remote-controlled, at least on a basic level, by hand signals from their pilots (transmitted via the pilot's EX-Gear, a combination flightsuit/jetpack). The VF-27 Lucifer was also designed with a direct mental interface for use by cyborg pilots, although it had standard controls as well as a backup.
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Unusual User Interface / int_69085a0	comment	Macross has experimented with alternate controls a few times: Macross Plus features a full thought-controlled fighter. This becomes a problem though: the system seems unable to distinguish between a pilot's imagination and direct mental commands. At one point, the pilot accidentally nearly totals another plane by only considering "If I were to apply downward thrust right now, that plane would be destroyed"... and his plane immediately reacts as though that was an order. This unreliability of the interface, not to mention the intense mental discipline needed by the pilot, leads to the idea being scrapped in favor of more standard controls. Macross 7 features Basara's custom Valkyrie controlled by a guitar. The rest of Fire Bomber got similar fighters when Sound Force was established, as it was essential that they be able to play music and pilot at the same time. Macross Frontier had VF-25 "Messiah" fighters that could be remote-controlled, at least on a basic level, by hand signals from their pilots (transmitted via the pilot's EX-Gear, a combination flightsuit/jetpack). The VF-27 Lucifer was also designed with a direct mental interface for use by cyborg pilots, although it had standard controls as well as a backup.
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Unusual User Interface / int_69811250	comment	Foundation's Edge: A new model of starship has a neural interface, which the protagonist expects will involve a helmet. Instead, the panel bears a pair of holographic hands, which appear to grip his own when he puts them together.
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Unusual User Interface / int_6a4bddd6	comment	This trope proved to be a problem concerning Iron Man. When James "Rhodey" Rhodes took over as Iron Man, he used Tony's old red and gold armor. Soon, he began exhibiting headaches and irritation to the point where he'd fight people. Turns out Tony had calibrated his armor so that it ran on his brain patterns and, being stuck in his "demon in a bottle" rut at the time, he never realized it until it got really bad. Tony ends up donning a version of the old gray armor and fighting Rhodey so he can go in and recalibrate the armor.
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Unusual User Interface / int_6e1d5f36	comment	Farscape: Moya's controls are... empty grating. Seriously, look at the control panels, they're just empty spaces in metal frames with lights underneath. Pilot controlled all of Moya herself with a just a dozen huge buttons, but as his nervous system is wired directly into Moya's he doesn't necessarily need physical controls (and the time we see his neural connection severed he still retains verbal control). Of course, since Moya is alive, it's sometimes less a case of Pilot controls the ship and more a case of he negotiates with her. Frequently Pilot's role is to talk Moya out of something she wants to do, or in to something she doesn't. Averted with the manual controls on the command deck, which feature a conventional joystick and displays for use by humanoid crew. Moya's son Talyn is genetically engineered to not require a Pilot; instead a humanoid crew member is implanted on the back of the neck with cybernetics that let him control Talyn's systems directly... if Talyn allows it. Like Moya, Talyn can also take voice commands and has manual controls.
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Unusual User Interface / int_6f775c30	comment	Franchise: When Mueller is being asked questions by Multivac, the questions pop out as punch card tape. The tape is then fed through another machine that converts the holes into English. Mueller's responses are written down, fed into the second machine (which spits out punch card tape), and then sent back to Multivac. While this is going on, Mueller is also hooked up to various cords that monitor his blood pressure, heartbeat, sweat, and brain-wave activity. It takes three computer programmers/engineers to operate all of this, which is merely a peripheral, not Multivac itself. Going to the bathroom is said to be uncomfortable.
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Unusual User Interface / int_6fb218d7	comment	The control panel used by the time-machine hacker in the Doctor Who Missing Adventures novel The Crystal Bucephalus is a device that looks like a harp with beams of light instead of strings. "Playing" it lets you manipulate 4-dimensional mathematics. The novel is set far enough in the future that another temporal scientist considers it an antique.
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Unusual User Interface / int_70814599	comment	Stargate SG-1: Human-form replicators can interface with technology (particularly Earth computers) by sticking a body part, usually a hand, directly into the machine. Apparently this also works on humans, as the human-form replicators can literally get inside their victim's heads (though it is not exactly painless for the victim). Goa'uld ships are usually controlled by sticking your hands on a pair of big red orb-things and... then somehow you can drive the ship without doing anything else that's visible. Presumably it's a telepathic interface or something.
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Unusual User Interface / int_71a07a47	comment	Paper Girls has an iPod-like device that projects a virtual map directly into the holder's visual cortex, or so we can only assume, because only the character holding the device can see what it is displaying.
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Unusual User Interface / int_73d7930f	comment	A Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode ("The Visitor") has characters decades in the future having trouble adapting to the Defiant's now-antiquated interface, being used to a three-dimensional projection. Appropriately enough we go on to see an evolved 3D holographic version of the LCARS interface in use in Star Trek: Picard, which takes place about thirty years after the TNG/DS9/VOY era but about twenty years before these specific scenes in "The Visitor".
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Unusual User Interface / int_7559ae0b	comment	In Dune, interstellar travel is only possible due to former humans, constantly bathed in a powerful drug, who mutate into Space Whales, predicting every possible path the ship could take and then somehow moving it themselves through space using psychic powers. While floating in midair, at least in the movies. The books has engines for the moving part, but the Navigators do plot the safest course. The miniseries has a rather beautiful visual of a navigator "connecting the dots" between where the ship will travel. In the end, the user is the interface.
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Unusual User Interface / int_755b343f	comment	In Halo, while most Forerunner devices are activated via Holographic Terminals, the terminals seen in Halo Wars and Halo Legends are activated by touching a big sphere covered in glyphs. It's interesting to note that, since humans are Reclaimers and the technology is destined for them, the spheres will self-trigger and align themselves when touched by a human.
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Unusual User Interface / int_7668653b	comment	Inverted for Javik in Mass Effect 3. Ordinary user interfaces are strange and confusing to him, as well as inefficient (Intercoms? Typing out words by hand? Primitives!) He instead prefers to communicate through direct knowledge transference via touch, and controlling systems through some kind of water-based interface.
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Unusual User Interface / int_76feae04	comment	One incredibly unintuitive system used in Power Rangers Mystic Force had the Rangers sitting in little pods on a checkered surface, and directing the Megazord by way of chess moves. In the heat of battle.
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Unusual User Interface / int_774aac31	comment	District 9 has an alien ship steered by sticking your fingers in two small pots filed with some sort of gel. There are also conventional touch screens, and Holographic Terminals, and screws straight into your brain.
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Unusual User Interface / int_77677ed1	comment	In Sword of the Stars, Morrigi curl around control pillars to run their spacecraft.
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Unusual User Interface / int_7832b74c	comment	In Steven Universe, most larger Homeworld spaceships are shaped like human body parts, and are controlled by their pilots through motion-capture of those body parts. Pink Diamond's leg-ship has what can only be described as a runway on the bridge, and requires its pilot to take a running leap to get into orbit. Peridot's hand-ship was controlled by a panel of light that its pilot could merge their own Hard Light body with to control it. Oddly, the Roaming Eye used by the Ruby Squad just has a touchscreen and few buttons on consoles.
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Unusual User Interface / int_7988cb68	comment	Mass Effect The codex explains that the holographic interfaces are not hard light, but rather simply holographic projections. Instead, the person using the interface has "haptic interfaces" installed in special gloves, or has implants that serve the same purpose installed in their fingers if they use such interfaces frequently. In addition to connecting to the computer to track the user's movements for the purposes of input, the interface also provides the sensation of tactile feedback: the user can "feel" the keys they're pushing, even though they aren't there. Inverted for Javik in Mass Effect 3. Ordinary user interfaces are strange and confusing to him, as well as inefficient (Intercoms? Typing out words by hand? Primitives!) He instead prefers to communicate through direct knowledge transference via touch, and controlling systems through some kind of water-based interface. When Shepard enters the Geth Consensus to eliminate the Reaper Code infecting the network, the debugging tool is represented in the virtual world by a large energy weapon. Legion explains this is because the Geth felt Shepard would find this type of interface the most familiar. For their part, Shepard takes this as a backhanded compliment.
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Unusual User Interface / int_7a0eb880	comment	In the Wing Commander novel False Colors, Jason "Bear" Bondarevski is offered, by a Kilrathi assisting the UBW forces, the option of wiring his cybernetic arm (replacement for an injury from the novelization of WC3, where he was commanding one of the destroyers escorting the TCS Victory that you occasionally escorted) so he can directly interface with his fighter, instead of the more conventional airplane-type interface. He declines the offer.
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Unusual User Interface / int_7b039953	comment	The Na'vi in Avatar can interface with virtually every large animal and plant on Pandora through a sort of biological 'cable' (which is also present on said other lifeforms) due to their entire ecosystem being a sort of network, while humans back at base control their computers by touching 3D screens.
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Unusual User Interface / int_7bbf00b8	comment	E.W. Hildick's Ghost Squad novels featured an inversion of this trope. One of the main characters regularly used a word processor (with a regular keyboard) that he built himself. The inversion is that the protagonists were ghosts of young people, and they were severely limited in how they could interact with the physical world. The electronics whiz's affinity for his creation gave them a way to communicate with the living.
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Unusual User Interface / int_7d28f67b	comment	In The Metabarons comic, the first Metabaron, Othon von Salza, manages to defeat an army of 100,000 mercenary spaceships using his super-advanced spaceship which somehow needs to be operated through his "protonic pen," a cord that plugs into his crotch.
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Unusual User Interface / int_7f87dafc	comment	Mobile Suit Gundam SEED cockpits aren't so much an unusual user interface as an unwieldy combination of pretty much every single common user interface, with buttons, switches, joysticks & multiple keyboards. This is probably because they were designed to be used by Designer Babies with enhanced reflexes.
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Unusual User Interface / int_7f8a38b6	comment	Mobile Suit Gundam Wing has the ZERO System, which feeds data directly into the pilot's brain and reacts to his decisions practically at speed-of-thought. Unfortunately, if you don't have immaculate focus, it drives you crazy.
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Unusual User Interface / int_7fd403f8	comment	In Galaxy Quest, the aliens manage to build spaceship controls that respond correctly from the random inputs they see on the TV series. This works great for the pilot, who was very young and had invented his own ideas for all of the controls. For the engineer who was a prudish thespian and didn't care...
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Unusual User Interface / int_81692f99	comment	Star Trek: Star Trek: The Next Generation: Data was regularly plugging himself into various bits of the ship. Once they even attached just his head after his body was damaged and they had to leave it behind. The Starship Enterprise was saved by Data's disembodied head. Lt. Barclay's interface with Enterprise's computer on the holodeck in "Nth Degree." As the episode progresses, it becomes less and less clear to what extent Barclay is interfacing with the computer, and to what extent he is the computer. In their initial appearance, Borg drones use their alcoves to plug themselves into the Borg collective consciousness—to the extent that when using them, drones don't register as individual life forms to sensors. This is downplayed in subsequent episodes where drones are depicted as being fully connected to the Collective at all times. A Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode ("The Visitor") has characters decades in the future having trouble adapting to the Defiant's now-antiquated interface, being used to a three-dimensional projection. Appropriately enough we go on to see an evolved 3D holographic version of the LCARS interface in use in Star Trek: Picard, which takes place about thirty years after the TNG/DS9/VOY era but about twenty years before these specific scenes in "The Visitor". DS9 also explores how a Jem'Hadar starship is piloted. Notably, they do not feature main viewscreens. The officers need to wear a visor that's hooked directly into the ship's sensors, "like having a viewscreen in your mind". In the earliest appearances these were cumbersome shoulder-mounted armatures, which were swiftly replaced by a head-mounted device that covered one eye. Humans seem to develop headaches, nausea and vertigo after using them for longer than a couple minutes, but Cardassians are less susceptible. One episode featured a guest character with a data port behind her ear, which she could use to bypass security systems. The dialogue made it sound as though they were relatively freely available but often very expensive (unless you want the cheap tech directly connected to your brain). It shows up again in a later episode on a minor criminal character. In both cases, the interfaces are very useful for getting into secure systems and data, but the drawbacks include nasty physical pain from security features designed to counter just such breaches, to the point where the users risked permanent damage, paralysis, or even death. Its implied the combination of their use for breaching security barriers and the associated dangers are the main reason that such implants are mostly used by criminals (and thus have a stigma attached to them) In the Star Trek: Voyager finale, Janeway returns from decades in the future to change the present, and she is implanted with a standard issue neural computer interface from the future. There's another episode where Tom Paris gets too close to an alien shuttle with a neural interface. The Hirogen ships' interface works looks like sticking metal toothpicks into a gigantic sphere. The Borg can also do this with their assimilation tubules, and though it's rarely shown it also apparently works on non-Borg technology. The tubes can inject nanoprobes into anything which then, presumably, infect and reprogram the target system in much the same way as they do with a biological organism.
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Unusual User Interface / int_846beec3	comment	Vandread is similar to Outlaw but with a human male.
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Unusual User Interface / int_84d455d4	comment	The Humongous Mecha in The Big O used toggle switches, joysticks, foot pedals, keyboards, and buttons. In the second season, the Megadeii like Big O are shown to be sentient, and can bond with their pilots by literally jacking into their backs; if someone who's not a proper Dominus tries to use one, however, he gets eaten alive by wires, just like Alan Gabriel.
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Unusual User Interface / int_86814e7d	comment	Final Fantasy X-2's Big Bad has a buglike Humongous Mecha called Vegnagun, and like its name would suggest, it had a BFG built into its mouth. Now how do you suspect something like that would be controlled? Why, with a gigantic pipe organ, of course!
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Unusual User Interface / int_86c3beca	comment	From Girl Genius, The Throne of Faustus Heterodyne. It can be reasonably described as creepy. Earlier in the series, Agatha uses a modified pipe organ to control her army of clanks.
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Unusual User Interface / int_90aa1b05	comment	In Hyperdrive, ships are piloted by cyborg "Enhanced Humans". This seems to involve dancing in an alcove full of coloured lights. The plot of the first episode comes about, in part, because two bored bridge crew members try to come up with a sequence of manoeuvres that will make the cyborg fall out of her alcove.
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Unusual User Interface / int_90e2f673	comment	The 'mechs from BattleTech are controlled by a combination of manual controls, like joysticks and pedals for targeting and gross movement, and and a neurological link with the mech to provide more precise control and to a sense of balance. The neurolink is one of the few non-invasive types; instead of cutting into people's brains and adding datajacks, it's just a helmet that presses on a few spots where it can connect to the nervous system. This doesn't require anything more invasive than the pilot keeping those spots free of hair, and calibrating the helmets when fitting a new mechwarrior. The novels based on the tabletop game give the Clan Elementals another system to make up for the lack of buttons to push. Their weapons fire when they put their hands in certain positions, and they turn things on and off by the "glance system," where their viewport has a series of icons above and below it. To activate the icon, the Elemental just looks at it for a moment. They also apparently use modified versions of the neurolinking systems. Less advanced power-armor units have to make do with more manual systems. At least one book mentions a unit that uses tongue controls for certain functions. One hopes they sanitize those helmets... BattleTech does have invasive cybernetic control systems however. That being said, said systems are every rare, cutting edge technology. They also have a tendency to drive the user insane after a few years, if not kill them out right, though the individuals who are willing to voluntarily undergo the surgeries necessary to have the systems installed are generally noted as not being terribly balanced to begin with.
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Unusual User Interface / int_9472b00d	comment	Mobile Suit Gundam Unicorn has the NT-D (New Type Destroyer) system, through combination of this, the psychoframe built into the entire mobile suits frame, and the psychowaves emitted by the pilots brain, the RX-0 Unicorn Gundam when in NT-D mode can be controlled by thought alone, however it's very taxing on the pilots mind and can only do so for 5 minutes, the real kicker is that it chooses when to activate, not at the pilots discretion.
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Unusual User Interface / int_95e4bed	comment	Pip from Sequential Art has a recurring nightmare about this.
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Unusual User Interface / int_96256bb4	comment	In Nebula-75, a Couple of thieves have a Space Ship, whose navigation system is literally the handle bars of a Motorcycle, as well as said ship using a normal looking ignition key!
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Unusual User Interface / int_99bab75a	comment	Macross Plus features a full thought-controlled fighter. This becomes a problem though: the system seems unable to distinguish between a pilot's imagination and direct mental commands. At one point, the pilot accidentally nearly totals another plane by only considering "If I were to apply downward thrust right now, that plane would be destroyed"... and his plane immediately reacts as though that was an order. This unreliability of the interface, not to mention the intense mental discipline needed by the pilot, leads to the idea being scrapped in favor of more standard controls.
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Unusual User Interface / int_9a0c0ffa	comment	A number of brain implants exist in The History of the Galaxy series. The most common one is a simple chip implanted at birth, which allows one to control household appliances and computers. It only interprets basic wishes/commands. Cybreakers and mnemonics have up to 7 implants that can be used to break into any system, including the aforementioned simple implants, mind-raping people and frying their brains. Oh, and don't bother threatening them with any modern gun, as all of those have electronic systems that can be jammed or overloaded. A group of genetically-engineered people have an organ at the base of the skull that emits and receives infrared signals, allowing interface with any device that has an IR port. Apparently, in the future, it's every system. A girl accidentally enters VR with this organ by looking at a screen and enjoying the view of the landscape.
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Unusual User Interface / int_9cab62ed	comment	Vernor Vinge's "True Names" and K.W. Jeter's Doctor Adder predated Neuromancer.
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Unusual User Interface / int_9e1b1efa	comment	While the New Kashubia Series uses Cyberspace to pilot its weapons platforms they need cybernetics to access it, however what makes this unusual is that that part was thrown in at the last minute since everything else was already there tech-wise. Later the hero gets a Cool Chair so he also doesn't need to strip and float around in a goo pool.
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Unusual User Interface / int_9e52d282	comment	Pretty much the entire point of Dystopia, a Half-Life 2 mod. The players can jack into a 3D interpretation of a computer by mentally connecting to the computer through the cyberdeck in their heads. Of course, since they are putting their own minds inside the machine, they leave their real bodies vulnerable to attack.
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Unusual User Interface / int_a183d57f	comment	A Futurama episode that parodied Minority Report also spoofed their version of this trope. Fry joins the New New York Police and ends up in the Future Crimes department, where the main computer is a giant holographic interface manipulated by hand motions. While reviewing some footage, he zooms in by making a binoculars gesture in front of his face, and rewinds the footage by performing the Cabbage Patch.
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Unusual User Interface / int_a2add1d2	comment	In Splatoon and Splatoon 2, the Final Boss rides a bizarre Humongous Mecha that he controls via turntables scratched with wasabi roots. A very appropriate weapon for someone called DJ Octavio.
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Unusual User Interface / int_a4a6b86a	comment	In Code Geass, the Japanese-made Knightmare Frames use motorcycle-style control systems, apparently to improve maneuverability (and to provide lots of shots of the female pilots bent over). In the novels, protagonist Lelouch tries using Action Girl Kallen's Guren Mk-II and discovers that it's completely beyond him. The sole exception to this is Lelouch's own Mid-Season Upgrade, the Shinkirou. It has control sticks, but most of its functions are operated by keyboard and require someone as smart and quick-minded as him to operate it.
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Unusual User Interface / int_a78fff6d	comment	SeaQuest DSV has the HR (Hyper Reality) Probe, a vaguely crab-like ROV that the ship's engineer can operate by means of a VR headset and haptic gloves.
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Unusual User Interface / int_ab6c21bb	comment	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.
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Unusual User Interface / int_b09be8	comment	Gundam Build Fighters uses strange holographic spheres for controls. The spheres seem to have weapon controls (accessed by rotation) and to some degree also have the spheres follow arm movement, so it raises the question of how the rest of the unit is supposed to controlled, especially for something like martial arts, which we do see some units performing. Conrast with Gundam Build Divers, which just goes straight for a more logical twin-joystick, twin-pedal, and HUD setup, meaning that GBN controls are not terribly far removed from a combination of Steel Battalion and a Virtual Reality headset. This is quite logical: making the controls familiar and easily adapted would be a smart move for an entertainment company wanting to sell both game-cafe and home-play units of what is essentially a Toys-to-Life MMO, something that was almost impossible with the original Gunpla Duel system from Build Fighters.
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Unusual User Interface / int_b0bb89d8	comment	Superman has a kryptonian computer made of crystals. Touching or rearranging the crystals makes the computer perform different functions. How he remembers these without labels is a Required Secondary Power.
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Unusual User Interface / int_b11e29d2	comment	In Outlaw Star, Melfina the android navigator, controls the ship by being suspended naked in a tank of liquid. She facilitates the ease-of-use of the ships complex systems.
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Unusual User Interface / int_b24f49ab	comment	Back to the Future Part II: Implied for circa 2015 video games when two boys in the Cafe 80s watch Marty pull off a Crack Shot in the vintage arcade game Wild Gunman.
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Unusual User Interface / int_b618b457	comment	In The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, radios have gone from buttons and dials to touch-sensitive panels to a system where you wave a hand in its general direction and hope. It's not the most user-friendly interface out there. The entire Starship Bistromath in Life, the Universe and Everything is an unusual interface. It's a flying Bistro controlled and powered by dickering over the bill with the robotic crew. Not just the bills. At one point Slartibartfast tells Arthur play with some chicken in order to help the steering.
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Unusual User Interface / int_bc3e398b	comment	In Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, a first-season episode shows that John Connor is capable of connecting an advanced robot CPU chip into his computer (via a hot-swap SATA drive dock, no less) to read the memory files stored on the chip. He takes this one step farther when he uses the CPU chip of "good" Terminator Cameron to access the traffic mainframe of downtown Los Angeles in order to upload a virus to Skynet's "proto" nervous system. Given the fact that these chips are installed on machines being sent back in time, it actually makes sense that they would be built to be backwards compatible, if they were designed to interface with older systems.
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Unusual User Interface / int_bcadd7cb	comment	More advanced Warhammer 40,000 vehicles and war machines are often plugged directly into the pilot's brain. In a rather low-tech way. The control systems of Titans includes a system that the command crew are linked to by wires that enter the brain through the edges of the eye socket. The primary pilot, the Princeps, is often hardwired into the Titan for greater control. Chaos Titans take this a step further, as the whole crew is often fused with the Titan and gains greater sentience. Being attached to a Titan will always lead to a loss of self for the Princeps if they are not killed first. To pilot a Dreadnought, you have to be pretty close to dead, and have had to have done something pretty epic just prior, or have been in a very good standing within the force to justify being placed in one. The Dreadnought is equal parts Walking Tank and life support for the pilot. For the Loyalist Marines, this is seen as one of the greatest privileges that they can achieve. For different reasons, the Chaos Marines see being in a dreadnought as something that is less than pleasant. Ork Killa Kanz and Deff Dreddz are just like dreadnoughts, except for being ramshackle and "orkier" in design, the pilots are all volunteer, and they are permanently hardwired into the machine (whereas dreanought pilots' sarcophagi can be removed from the dreadnought when they're not in use). Gretchen tend to take a liking to piloting the Kan, while Orks tend to resent the day-to-day existence inside of a Deff Dredd (having to eat meals through a mechanical straw, for example), but they tend to forget their qualms when they're shredding though power armored infantry like butter. Many techpriests connect to computer systems in this manner. Not to mention all the prayers, chanting and burning of incense that accompanies any machine/user interface in Warhammer 40K, which certainly is 'unusual', if not exactly in the manner described by the trope. Techpriests can also attempt to "appease the machine spirit," a sort of innate A.I./machine soul, by using unguents, oils, and the aforementioned incense. How effective (or logical) this is is often minimal, but sometimes the machine (in ten or twelve pieces with half of its programming deleted) will get up and KILL STUFF to the best of its abilities. They also have the noosphere, an augmented reality bionic eye that can let you see data and boosts your programming skills tenfold simply by warrant of being able to use your hands and mind to do so. The Eldar have a slightly much cleaner version of this whereby technology is controlled by psychic manipulation. Also worth noting are the Wraithlords and Wraithguard, war "golems" that are controlled directly by a deceased Eldar soul embedded in the machine. The Sisters of Battle may have the best, though. The Exorcist tank is a missile launch platform that looks a lot like an organ. The missiles are launched by a Battle Sister in front of a keyboard, playing devotional music that also causes explosions. The unit also features one of the more outrageous walker units, the Penitent Engine. Much like a Dreadnought, the Penitent Engine is controlled by a living user. Unlike a Dreadnought, a Penitent Engine pilot is fully alive, conscious, and unarmored; they are essentially a big, nasty suicide unit. They are also hardwired to the engine in a way that is sometimes described as "crucifixion." The only way out for them is death, which is actually fairly standard for WH40k. Other examples that fit the trope are the Dark Eldar Talos, which is actually run by an autonomous AI, but has a tortured slave inside powering the Talos with his agony. The aforementioned Eldar Wraithguard and Wraithlords, of course. The Defiler which is a Walking Tank possessed by a daemon, and the Soulgrinder takes the defiler up a step by including a waist-up daemon mounted onto the machine's legs. Let's not forget the always fun and exciting passages through the warp. The Navigator, a human mutant who has a third eye capable of seeing in the warp, sits in a chair that he is literally wired into (including a tube that deposits saline capsules into his mouth to prevent him from dehydrating), which is then raised into a transparent hemisphere on the surface of the ship, where he pilots the vessel as it travels through hell. The only navigational landmark for him to use is the Astronomican, and eldritch horrors that would drive a normal person insane constantly gnash and throw themselves at the vessel, kept at bay only the Gellar Field which the ship generates for (relative) safe passage through the warp. The results of a ship's Gellar Field failing are, to put it lightly, rather unpleasant.
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Unusual User Interface / int_bcb32dc6	comment	Shadowrun and nearly every work of Cyberpunk has the datajack, a port or wire usually somewhere on the side of the head to hook up to a computer. A cyberpunk character who can't "jack in" with a port in their head is not trying hard enough. Later games, however, have caught up with WiFi and made wireless the prime mode of interaction with the Internet. People still have ports in their head that connect to the web, they just don't require the cables. Don't forget the Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality interfaces, which can look like anything the user wants it to. A Node's Operating system could very well just look like a library, with each book representing a program. There's no limiting the weirdness.
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Unusual User Interface / int_bcd27544	comment	Yet another of Lukyanenko's trilogies, Genome has ships controlled using a VR interface. It's noted that every ship has standard manual controls, but those are included mostly due to tradition than any real need in case of emergency. VR control is much faster and more efficient. The Captain can see and interact with any plugged-in crew member, seeing them as an avatar of sorts based on their personality.
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Unusual User Interface / int_bcdcf629	comment	In Transformers: Animated, Soundwave uses Ratbat, a keytar (that turns into a bat) to reprogram the captured Autobots. It seems to take a while; he ends up standing around in the sewer for a while rocking out.
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Unusual User Interface / int_c43df4d8	comment	Doctor Who: The interfaces on the alien technology in "The War Games" look and act a lot like oddly-shaped fridge magnets. (But then, you could say that Doctor Who itself is a fridge magnet, but that's another trope.) In "Day of the Daleks", the Controller's Bridge Bunnies are always waving their hands vaguely over their consoles, implying some kind of motion-activated control system. In ''Terror of the Zygons'' the organic Zygon technology is controlled by... fondling fleshy mushroom-shaped growths that make up their control panels. Gallifreyan technology in "The Invasion of Time" and (to an extent) "Arc of Infinity" seems to involve picking up undersized billiard balls of various colors and then putting them back down. The TARDIS itself seems to have sometimes had a version of this type of interface, particularly in the interior used between 2005 and 2010, consisting of multiple glass and metal◊ spheres on the console. These even appeared in some of the 9th Doctor's publicity photos. "The Long Game" had people installing ports in their foreheads. "The Doctor's Wife": The TARDIS' internal doors are password locked. To unlock them you don't speak the words, you have to think about their meaning. So when Amy Pond needs to convey the word "delight" she thinks about her wedding day. "Journey to the Centre of the TARDIS" has the liquid Encyclopedia Gallifreya, bottles containing purple fluid that could be heard speaking when opened. In the episode "The Day of the Doctor", a sentient weapon called The Moment has an interface that manifests as someone from the user's life. But due to this being Time Lord technology, the person can be from the user's past, present or future. In the case of the War Doctor, it chooses to look like his future companion Rose Tyler.
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Unusual User Interface / int_c72021c5	comment	Deus Ex has mentions of an occipitalnote bone in the back of the skull/lobe of the brain right in front of it responsible for vision (yes, in the back of your head). jack in one in game news article and an in-game email. Based on the context of the news article (The fact that a teenage girl has one is mentioned alongside having a tattoo and wearing black) these are looked upon negatively.
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Unusual User Interface / int_cb802e97	comment	Macross 7 features Basara's custom Valkyrie controlled by a guitar. The rest of Fire Bomber got similar fighters when Sound Force was established, as it was essential that they be able to play music and pilot at the same time.
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Unusual User Interface / int_cdedd56a	comment	The pilots in Exo Squad control their E-Frames with cyberjacks mounted at the base of their skulls, although they're also shown using an optical targeting system - the crosshairs follow the movement of the pilot's eye, and they "pull the trigger" basically by winking.
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Unusual User Interface / int_cf69b21e	comment	In Beast Wars, some of the transformers had keyboards inserted into their forearms that sort of met halfway between the two methods (it actually superficially resembled the use of the small keypad on the infamous Power Glove). In Beast Machines, Megatron had a special throne interface complete with Helmet and Hover-Chair that was connected to the planet's networks through ceiling cords.
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Unusual User Interface / int_d109f322	comment	Andromeda: Mr. Fixit Seamus Harper had a dataport in the side of his neck, which allowed him to plug into, and interface with computer systems. The ship itself was composed of a series of coloured chips that would be rearranged. There also was the super expensive "Serial Quantum Chips" that where coloured chips shaped like a double helix.
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Unusual User Interface / int_d461f757	comment	Cylons in Battlestar Galactica have two for the price of one. They can plug fiberoptic cable into their forearm to interface with computers (but they have to make an incision first) and they can interface with their own ships by putting their hands in a stream of water called the "datastream". The latter might be either electrical or biochemical transmitters, it's unclear but it sure looks cool! It helps that they're Artificial Humans.
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Unusual User Interface / int_d4d17cca	comment	In Scott Westerfeld's Uglies series, the Specials have this, as well as in the fourth book, Extras. In Extras, everyone has these.
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Unusual User Interface / int_d56cafaf	comment	Dr. K of Power Rangers RPM can control the entire lab via her violin.
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Unusual User Interface / int_d5b26268	comment	Scorn, being inspired by the works of H.R. Geiger and ZdzisÅ‚aw BeksiÅ„ski, is absolutely full of these. Case in point, one variant of control panel requires that the user insert one arm into a fleshy gauntlet while the other extends an Arm Blade of sorts and jacks into a port next to said gauntlet.
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Unusual User Interface / int_d7ca34d4	comment	In often-overlooked 90s sci-fi show Crime Traveller, the hero time machine looks like a mass of mismatched electronic junk and is controlled through typical buttons, switches, and levers; but in the last episode the villain-of-the-week turns out to have their own much more advanced time machine, with a very minimalist design and large rubber breast implants for controls.
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Unusual User Interface / int_d9c602eb	comment	In South Park, Mr. Garrison's wheel car invention.... It consists of a single, large wheel that you can drive by sitting on a phallic "seat" (ouch) in the wheel, and you maneuver and control it by sucking on a phallic object while you shift the two phallic levers below it up and down... penis. At least one person complains about the uncomfortable interface but admits that it's still less painful than dealing with the airlines. All of this was completely unnecessary and specifically added by Mr. Garrison.
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Unusual User Interface / int_e081af79	comment	The Inexplicable Adventures of Bob!: The default language on dragon computers is Chaucerian English. Molly, being an omnidisciplinary scholar, can read it with ease. "Hey! You got those funny s's that look like lowercase f's! Giggle!"
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Unusual User Interface / int_e1575a9d	comment	You could see Ping from MegaTokyo as an Unusual User Interface. She's a gynoid made by Sony as an accessory for playing Dating Sims.
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Unusual User Interface / int_e293455a	comment	Willow freaks out her friends by accessing a computer database via touch (and magic) in the Buffy the Vampire Slayer episode "Smashed".
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Unusual User Interface / int_e4732abc	comment	In Stargate Atlantis a lot of Ancient and Wraith technology is operated by thinking at it. Or in the case of the Asgard, moving identical rocks around to different, unlabeled circles on a panel. (Maybe just bad interface.)
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Unusual User Interface / int_e562c200	comment	In the anime Rockman.exe (also known as Megaman NT Warrior in the West) the operators "jack in" their Navis using faux micro-USB cables. Axess exchanged these for jacking in via lasers.
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Unusual User Interface / int_e5c5bc22	comment	The "multisensory holographic work station" from GURPS: Ultra-Tech can be set to communicate with the user by using holograms, ultrasonics, infrared light, ultraviolet light and smells.
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Unusual User Interface / int_e8cd02cd	comment	In Hypnospace Outlaw, Hypnospace is accessed via a Brain/Computer Interface in the form of a headband that is worn while the user is asleep. The headband uses lasers to directly interface the brain with Hypnospace, a method that isn't particularly safe: at best, it keeps you in REM sleep longer than is recommended, but at worst, it can fry your brain.
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Unusual User Interface / int_eaaef767	comment	In Flight of the Navigator, the boy flies the ship by placing his hands on two hemispheres, and leaning one way or another.
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Unusual User Interface / int_eb98bf90	comment	Sprint Vector: Mr. Entertainment's computer uses a touch screen and holographic keyboard, both of which he can operate with his butt.
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Unusual User Interface / int_ec9965ca	comment	Telepathy runs computers in the Culture books. Or more specifically super advanced A.I.s run the computers and neural interfaces are simply the fastest way to speak to the A.I.s. Speech, gestures, handwriting, light signalling, and basically any other method to pass information work as well or could work if you simply inform an A.I. that you wish to start using that method. Plus the mental images used to control the biological implants and drug glands.
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Unusual User Interface / int_ee04f49a	comment	Deus Ex Universe: Deus Ex has mentions of an occipitalnote bone in the back of the skull/lobe of the brain right in front of it responsible for vision (yes, in the back of your head). jack in one in game news article and an in-game email. Based on the context of the news article (The fact that a teenage girl has one is mentioned alongside having a tattoo and wearing black) these are looked upon negatively. Denton himself can usually be considered an Unusual User Interface all by himself, since Icarus eventually manages to hack his brain, and he can do this with his nanotechnology that just doesn't make sense in a real-world equivalency. In Mankind Divided, the Neural SubNet allows hackers called Rippers to render secure networks they are breaking into as virtual reality environments, complete with network security measures being anthropomorphized as guards or rendered identical to physical security measures in the "real world" like laser tripwires. Users can use the Neural SubNet to chat in virtual reality as well.
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Unusual User Interface / int_ee073e99	comment	In Zoom: Academy for Superheroes, the spaceship at Area 51 is controlled via placing one's hands in two spheres of goo.
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Unusual User Interface / int_eeaaec28	comment	Martian Successor Nadesico achieves this effect with Nanomachines allowing the pilot to interface directly with the mecha. These are also the control medium for larger military vehicles and a lot of civilian equipment in the Martian colonies. For once, there are no major downsides (it's the other nanomachines you have to look out for), and it is in fact relatively easy to get the nanomachine injection if you're already in the military.
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Unusual User Interface / int_eec3eb25	comment	Also, in Lukyanenko's Line of Delirium trilogy, certain Powered Armor systems are controlled by the chin. Try doing that in the middle of a firefight.
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Unusual User Interface / int_eef5470a	comment	The character Gein from Rurouni Kenshin builds several "combat dolls" - they're basically clockwork mech suits that are controlled with the same mechanism as puppets, except from the inside.
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Unusual User Interface / int_ef076a36	comment	In the Star Trek: Voyager finale, Janeway returns from decades in the future to change the present, and she is implanted with a standard issue neural computer interface from the future.
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Unusual User Interface / int_f1414a2b	comment	In Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines, the T-X calls up a modem and "speaks modem" to it on the phone to access a computer.
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Unusual User Interface / int_f35bc73c	comment	Lilith's Brood: The alien Oankali can interface with any of their Organic Technology by touch, thanks to the same sensory filaments that let them perform microsurgery and genetic modification on living organisms through skin-to-skin contact. Allied humans need to be modified so they can do such minor things as signal a door to open, and are unable to use the technology in more sophisticated ways.
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Unusual User Interface / int_f481d3e4	comment	Operating the Engineers' computers in Prometheus involves playing a little flute, of all things.
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Unusual User Interface / int_f4bc7cf	comment	In Venus Prime, Sparta is able to interface with computers using pin spines under her fingernails. The data apparently manifests itself in the form of smells and tastes.
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Unusual User Interface / int_f74b5f80	comment	Babylon 5: The Liandra from Babylon 5: The Legend of the Rangers has a gesture-based weapon system, where the gunner floats in a virtual reality representation of the environment around the ship, and punches and kicks enemy vessels to fire at them. (Yes, this is as silly as it sounds. Made worse by the sound effects, which made it seem like the gunner was making pew-pew sounds.) The White Star has very odd main controls in its early versions, although as it gets redesigned the controls become more normal. Even in the earliest version, though, there are some fairly ordinary control panels. Sharlin class cruisers (otherwise known as Minbari War Cruisers) appeared to be commanded verbally. This is a very odd choice for a warship.
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Unusual User Interface / int_fb9c177d	comment	Transformers use keyboards. Why is that an Unusual User Interface? Because Transformers are robots who have been repeatedly shown to be able to interface with a computer by just plugging into it. You'd think it would be their favorite mode of computer control... But no. Of course, as touched on in the Ghost in the Shell entry above, directly interfacing with a computer that has a virus or other security issue could have unpleasant and potentially hazardous consequences. In Transformers: Animated, Soundwave uses Ratbat, a keytar (that turns into a bat) to reprogram the captured Autobots. It seems to take a while; he ends up standing around in the sewer for a while rocking out. In Beast Wars, some of the transformers had keyboards inserted into their forearms that sort of met halfway between the two methods (it actually superficially resembled the use of the small keypad on the infamous Power Glove). In Beast Machines, Megatron had a special throne interface complete with Helmet and Hover-Chair that was connected to the planet's networks through ceiling cords.
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Unusual User Interface / int_fe61112c	comment	Sigma Star Saga has the aliens interface with their techno-organic spaceships via the full-body parasites that they wear. The parasite-ship connection is such that a patrolling ship can instantly teleport the nearest parasite-wearing person into their hull in order to take command.
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Unusual User Interface / int_ff9ab17f	comment	Star Trek: The Next Generation: Data was regularly plugging himself into various bits of the ship. Once they even attached just his head after his body was damaged and they had to leave it behind. The Starship Enterprise was saved by Data's disembodied head.
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Franchise / int_8db4988a	type	Unusual User Interface
His Dark Materials / int_8db4988a	type	Unusual User Interface
Isaac Asimov Presents: The Great Science Fiction Stories, Volume 20 (1958) / int_8db4988a	type	Unusual User Interface
Lilith's Brood / int_8db4988a	type	Unusual User Interface
Line of Delirium / int_8db4988a	type	Unusual User Interface
Otherland / int_8db4988a	type	Unusual User Interface
Path of the Eldar / int_8db4988a	type	Unusual User Interface
Riesel Tales: Two Hunters / int_8db4988a	type	Unusual User Interface
Succession / int_8db4988a	type	Unusual User Interface
The History of the Galaxy / int_8db4988a	type	Unusual User Interface
The Stars Are Cold Toys / int_8db4988a	type	Unusual User Interface
The Succession Duology / int_8db4988a	type	Unusual User Interface
The Third: The Girl with the Blue Eye / int_8db4988a	type	Unusual User Interface
The Three-Body Problem / int_8db4988a	type	Unusual User Interface
Three Body Problem	seeAlso	Unusual User Interface
Uglies / int_8db4988a	type	Unusual User Interface
Worldwar / int_8db4988a	type	Unusual User Interface
Pandora in the Crimson Shell: Ghost Urn (Manga) / int_8db4988a	type	Unusual User Interface
We Are Our Adventuring Avatars / Role Play / int_8db4988a	type	Unusual User Interface
We Are Our Avatars (Roleplay) / int_8db4988a	type	Unusual User Interface
Ace Lightning / int_8db4988a	type	Unusual User Interface
Battlestar Galactica (2003) / int_8db4988a	type	Unusual User Interface
Danger 5 / int_8db4988a	type	Unusual User Interface
Hyperdrive / int_8db4988a	type	Unusual User Interface
Stargate Universe / int_8db4988a	type	Unusual User Interface
The Peripheral (2022) / int_8db4988a	type	Unusual User Interface
Netrunner (Tabletop Game) / int_8db4988a	type	Unusual User Interface
A Super Mario Thing (Video Game) / int_8db4988a	type	Unusual User Interface
Ace of Spades (Video Game) / int_8db4988a	type	Unusual User Interface
Baldur's Gate III (Video Game) / int_8db4988a	type	Unusual User Interface
Beneath a Steel Sky (Video Game) / int_8db4988a	type	Unusual User Interface
Citizen Sleeper (Video Game) / int_8db4988a	type	Unusual User Interface
Donkey Kong Jungle Beat (Video Game) / int_8db4988a	type	Unusual User Interface
Leisure Suit Larry (Video Game) / int_8db4988a	type	Unusual User Interface
Milkmaid of the Milky Way (Video Game) / int_8db4988a	type	Unusual User Interface
Minecraft: Story Mode (Video Game) / int_8db4988a	type	Unusual User Interface
MutaHeart	seeAlso	Unusual User Interface
Noitu Love (Video Game) / int_8db4988a	type	Unusual User Interface
Perfect Dark (Video Game) / int_8db4988a	type	Unusual User Interface
Pinball Deluxe (Video Game) / int_8db4988a	type	Unusual User Interface
Soul Hackers (Video Game) / int_8db4988a	type	Unusual User Interface
Star Trek: 25th Anniversary (Video Game) / int_8db4988a	type	Unusual User Interface
Splatoon (Video Game) / int_8db4988a	type	Unusual User Interface
MutaHeart	seeAlso	Unusual User Interface
Brethren Toons (Web Video)	seeAlso	Unusual User Interface
Nebula-75 (Web Video) / int_8db4988a	type	Unusual User Interface
21st Century Fox (Webcomic) / int_8db4988a	type	Unusual User Interface
Chuck Norris Facts (Website) / int_8db4988a	type	Unusual User Interface
Batman Beyond / int_8db4988a	type	Unusual User Interface
Megas XLR / int_8db4988a	type	Unusual User Interface
The Midnight Gospel / int_8db4988a	type	Unusual User Interface
WALLâ€¢E / int_8db4988a	type	Unusual User Interface
Macross 7 / int_8db4988a	type	Unusual User Interface
Earth: Final Conflict / int_8db4988a	type	Unusual User Interface
Sword of the Stars (Video Game) / int_8db4988a	type	Unusual User Interface

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