For every well-branded Retina Display or PureView camera, there are dozens of smart technologies in mobile devices that go entirely unrecognised for their impact on this world. Somewhere in the middle sits the humble accelerometer -- the tiny component that detects which way up you're holding your phone, or how you're swinging your games console controller.
While it provided one of the first "wow" moments for anyone who got a first-gen iPhone in their hands, the design decision was almost a victim of its own success -- the accelerometer became a natural part of the experience in no time. Meanwhile, in devices like the Nintendo Wii, it's an essential component of the innovative Wiimote controller that inspired the PlayStation Move and Xbox Kinect with its intuitive capturing of non-gamer attention.
By: Max Tatton-Brown, Edited by: Nate Lanxon
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via Wired.co.uk
http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2012-09/06/accelerometers-are-awesome
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