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Doesn't work on my new Thinkpad T510, running Ubuntu and Chromium 9.0. I know it has an accelerometer (I've seen the bundled Windows software use it), but I don't know where the API to access that data is.
See http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/HDAPS . I am not sure whether Firefox or Chrome/Chromium on Linux will actually read the data that is provided by hdaps.
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the nexus 1/s, probably.
Default Nexus 1 install has a Mobile Webkit browser, which doesn't even get the interactive version. It works - somewhat - on an iPad - but there's a problem in that tilting the iPad makes the screen rotate and locking the screen seems to disable the tilt events. Best experience is on a MacBook with Chrome, IMHO.
FYI, the accelerometer works on a MacBook Pro with Chrome or Firefox as well. I remember when Kris showed me the demo on his Mac, I was like "Wow, you can do that on a normal laptop?"
All kinds of laptops have had accelerometers since the early 2000s or so. (IBM ran commercials for their ThinkPads with “airbag” all the time. Yep, this was already built into laptops when IBM still sold ThinkPads.) They stop the hard drive when accelerations get too extreme.
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the nexus 1/s, probably.
Default Nexus 1 install has a Mobile Webkit browser, which doesn't even get the interactive version. It works - somewhat - on an iPad - but there's a problem in that tilting the iPad makes the screen rotate and locking the screen seems to disable the tilt events. Best experience is on a MacBook with Chrome, IMHO.
FYI, the accelerometer works on a MacBook Pro with Chrome or Firefox as well. I remember when Kris showed me the demo on his Mac, I was like "Wow, you can do that on a normal laptop?"
All kinds of laptops have had accelerometers since the early 2000s or so. (IBM ran commercials for their ThinkPads with “airbag” all the time. Yep, this was already built into laptops when IBM still sold ThinkPads.) They stop the hard drive when accelerations get too extreme.
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All kinds of laptops have had accelerometers since the early 2000s or so. (IBM ran commercials for their ThinkPads with “airbag” all the time. Yep, this was already built into laptops when IBM still sold ThinkPads.) They stop the hard drive when accelerations get too extreme.
I thought they stopped the drive when the acceleration is zero (freefall). If the acceleration is high, it's probably too late.
(I’m now just going to claim that zero was the extreme I was referring to.)
[0] http://de.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Datei:Susan_Helms_...
Edit: The laptop in question — model A31p from 2003 — doesn’t have an accelerometer. http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Category:A31p
