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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."
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?.
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
The most famous app to use this feature is probably iAlertU, which has a demo on YouTube.
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Bubblegym was one of the first games to make use of thos:
http://www.balooba.se/baloobasoftware/texts/bubbl
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