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If only manufacturers would use knobs instead of those horrible and often unintuitive touch interfaces. Here's hoping the slow acknowledgement that touch controls in vehicles are usually a bad idea makes its way to other appliances.



Not gonna happen. Touch interface is cheaper, more reliable and easier to clean.

Maybe someone will make one with pot motion sensor where turning pot around controls levels. But I’m not holding hope.


Samsung make one with a magnetic knob for controlling it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B4OhGdPjmc4

So the underlying surface is smooth but you can have a physical control.


Hmm. Reminds me Mustang Mach-E has a fake rotary finger knob thats touching a screen. Might make a good retrofit for induction cooktops...


Yeah, options are limited, but there are a few. We got an LG one from Costco with knobs (was a major filter for us).




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