Frank Rizzo oh btw, the gravity part is an exploit of the crash sensor things. When the sensors sense that the mac is falling it will turn off the harddrive so it wont break.
Scynne I actually have something like this for my macbook. I play with it when I get bored. A lot. It's far more entertaining then you'd think.
Pangalin I am not sure why a macbook would have an internal gyroscope :(
drcrypt It's basically a mechanism so the laptop can go into emergency mode after its been dropped but before it smashes into the ground.
kelpfoot There's an accelerometer in most modern notebook hard disks, so the hard disk can detect free fall, so it can brace for impact.
I don't know what this is called, but Western Digital refers to it in their marketing literature as "ShockGuard."
Apparently said accelerometer is exposed via a software interface.
This concludes today's lesson.
Stog I want my desktop to randomly fall apart and flop around.
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