Alexis Madrigal and Nicholas Jackson explore the secret gestural prehistory of mobile device use:
We shape our hands a certain way when we want to indicate mobile phone use, but people have been using these same gestures for centuries.
This photo’s from Central Park in 1976. In case you couldn’t tell from the sweet jean shorts this guy’s wearing. But it does totally look like he’s rocking an iPhone.
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gestures inspire (perhaps subconsciously) the way...devices are engineered for use?
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