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."
Re:Sweet. (Score:2, Informative)
Re:Physical Tilt Games... (Score:5, Informative)
Same as IBM ThinkPad sensor? (Score:1, Informative)
Re:Wait a minute... (Score:3, Informative)
No, not rotating in 3D. Rotating in 2D.
The point is that the top of the window will always be up, relative to the earth, regardless of what orientation the laptop is in.
The window behaves like a compass needle, only relative to real-up and real-down, instead of north and south.
Re:Thinkpad (Score:3, Informative)
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I'm running version 1.23 of the software and it is there that it displays the Notebook as you rotate it in realtime.