[maemo-users] Nokia netbook

[From: Alberto Garcia]

On Fri, Sep 04, 2009 at 09:14:14PM -0400, hendrik at topoi.pooq.com wrote:

> > How do you use accelerometer on a netbook?
> You program it to park the hard disk heads when the accelerometer
> readings warrant.

ThinkPads do exactly that:

http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Active_Protection_System

There's also a driver which creates a joystick device using the
accelerometer, although this is probably not so useful:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2JE2Np45h0o

Imagination is the only limit ;-)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zFi40HKFBZE

Berto