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MacSaber Turns Your Macbook into a Lightsaber
Petey_Alchemist writes "SomethingAwful.com forum goon isnoop has developed a useless but fun app that takes advantage of the new sudden motion sensor available in Macbooks. The MacSaber 1.0 causes your Macbook or Macbook Pro to whoosh and crash like a lightsaber depending on how you swing it around. The reviews from those who have installed it say it is quite fun--although there is some concern about whether or not 'lightsaber battles' fall under warranty."
They could also use this to play Tennis! No wonder the Wii looks like an Apple product, it uses bluetooth to let you use your Macbook (Pro) as a paddle! Hooray!
I would buy a new macbook just for this feature (well, that and tri-booting osx, xp, and gentoo).
Normality is now: overrated.
Now I can take my $1000 laptop and shake it to hear cool sounds! I can't imagine any downside in that. Oh crap, I just dropped my laptop. I can't wait to see the clip of the starwars laptop kid.
What are you eating? isItVeg?.
I don't want lightsaber effects, I just want to be able to use force pull on a Mac laptop. That would be fun. And profitable.
Emerald Astrology
...you can, before George Lucas sues the authors.
"A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of" - Ogden Nash
...followed by a lawsuit of course.
Fatal to who? The laptop, or the Sith Lord that you're trying to brain with the thing?
The higher the technology, the sharper that two-edged sword.
Can you make it scream in terror/pain when you drop it?
We are all just people.
It would probably a lot more cheaper to build a lightsaber out of Lego blocks and some electronics.
You miss the point: if you shake a lego brick light saber, you look like a dork. If you shake a Mac laptop light saber, you look like a rich dork.
"A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of" - Ogden Nash
Maybe they can use Rendezvous to tell how close they come to other lightsabers for more realistic crashing noises at the right time.
Nullum magnum ingenium sine mixtura dementia (There is no great genius without a mixture of madness) - Aristotle
I didn't know AppleCare covers braining a Sith Lord! :P
Dorks. They look like Dorks, Mr. Wolfe.
"Champagne for my real friends - and real pain for my sham friends!" http://ericblade.postalboard.com/
I just installed this and started playing around with it.
My daughter saw me and wanted to try. So I let her.
This lead to a saber duel and the lopping off of her imaginary friends toe.
Now, I am at the imaginary emergency room.
MacSaber 1.0 causes your Macbook to whoosh and crash like a lightsaber
;-)
"Crash"? Then it should be called WindowsSaber
Table-ized A.I.
Have you bought any lego lately?
The secret to defeating Darth Ballmer is to use the Force, not your eyes. Only with the Force will you be able to parry the onslaught of flying furniture in time.
I don't care if it's 90,000 hectares. That lake was not my doing.
Where are all the mod points when you *really* need them??!!
"This is all strongly reminiscent of the heyday of Communism and Socialism, when the bourgeoisie were hated from both ends: by the proles, because they had all the money, and by the intelligentsia, because of their tendency to spend it on lawn ornaments."
--Neal Stephenson
Are you nuts? A GAME? On a MAC? People buy Macs to get away from gaming!
Justice is the sheep getting arrested while an impartial judge declares the vote void.
And when you drop it, it's as if millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror, and were suddenly silenced.