Having Fun With PowerBook Motion Sensors 81
mjk325 writes "Amit Singh has published a discussion on the 'Sudden Motion Sensor' feature in the latest revision PowerBooks. One utility he has released displays a 3-D view of the PowerBook that follows the actual movement of the physical machine. Another utility creates windows that rotate in opposite directions to the physical machine to appear always straight. My brand new PB has the motion sensor, but apparently the utilities work on any system using software faking."
Sweet. (Score:4, Funny)
No imagination (Score:5, Funny)
What is clearly needed is a plug-in that clears the screen when the unit is held upside-down and shaken!
Or a version of Marble Madness that uses the tilt of the machine to control the marble.
Re:No imagination (Score:5, Funny)
Or rather, the fun of watching somebody else doing that....
for geologist out there (Score:5, Funny)
CJC
Etch-A-Sketch! (Score:5, Funny)
Re:semi-obligatory Simpsons quote (Score:1, Funny)
Not hardly.
He's a jerk, complete kneebiter, brainless prat, and a no-good dumbo nothing!
Is your desktop perturbed? (Score:4, Funny)
In spite of the author's quote, "Needless to say, it is quite a hellish experience trying to use the computer in this manner," it's just asking for someone to install it on some poor clod's computer, getting him drunk, and then have him try to do something productive like code in Perl.
"Hey... WTF does an upside down exclamation point stand for?"
Re:Same as IBM ThinkPad sensor? (Score:1, Funny)
Re:No imagination (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Recalibrating? (Score:5, Funny)
force feedback this (Score:2, Funny)
or if u want to stick to the technology at hand, u could use it to control the flight of the redeemer.
heck, if u run fast enough, u can make it go faster...just don't jump the railings if u're more than 10-15 floors up. u'll lose too many health points.
Uh Oh! (Score:2, Funny)
"I was... erm... just holding it like you normally do. Honest! Can I keep my warranty?"
Re:Security? (Score:5, Funny)
You know everybody will set their pattern to Up-Up-Down-Down...