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Two-Fingered Blackout PowerBook Dropping

atlauren (apparently) - 05:46am Mar 7, 2005 PST
via email - Practicing random acts of punditry.

At 10:55 AM -0800 3/4/05, Glenn Fleishman wrote:
>I asked Apple to loan me a new PowerBook so I could test first-hand
>the hardware features they added in the latest refresh a few weeks
>ago: trackpad with scrolling, Sudden Motion Sensor for hard drive
>protection, and increased backlighting for the keyboard.
>
>[snip]
>
>Finally, you ask, did I drop the PowerBook from a great height? Hey,
>this is a loaner, and I'm responsible for returning it intact. So,
>no. But I did shake it and drop it in my hands, and it surely did
>pause and restart the drive without a skip.

An amazing hack of the Apple Motion Sensor:

http://www.kernelthread.com/software/ams/

--
Andrew Laurence
atlauren

uci.edu

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Nigel Stanger (apparently) - Mar 7, 2005 4:09 pm (#1 Total: 1)

via email - Dunedin, New Zealand

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Re: Two-Fingered Blackout PowerBook Dropping

On 8/3/2005 1:46 AM, "Andrew Laurence" <atlauren

es.nacs.uci.edu> spake
thus:

> An amazing hack of the Apple Motion Sensor:

And the first game to make use of it:

<http://www.balooba.se/baloobasoftware/texts/bubblegym.htm>

--
Nigel Stanger, Dunedin, NEW ZEALAND.
http://public.xdi.org/=nigel.stanger

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