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    Accelerometer Utility?

    Discussion in 'HP' started by Beltonius, Nov 10, 2006.

  1. Beltonius

    Beltonius Notebook Consultant

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    So I'm sitting at lunch with two of my friends, both with late-model thinkpads. They were comparing utilities to read info off the accelerometers in their laptops. I have my nc8430 which apparently has such an accelerometer in it.
    Does anyone know of some utility or software that can read info off the accel. chip? I know Macbooks can install software that interprets a sharp tap to the laptop as a line return (a la a typewriter) and there's a linux one for thinkpads that require a secret knock pattern on the laptop to log in.

    I'm not particularly looking for more functionality, I just was curious.
     
    Beltonius, Nov 10, 2006
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