Knock Some Commands Into Your Laptop

An anonymous reader writes "For the first time, you can smack your computer and get a meaningful response! An article at IBM Devworks show you how to rap on the laptop case with your knuckles and have commands run on those knocks. Enterprising hackers have developed modules for the Linux kernel to take advantage of laptop integrated accelerometer sensors; with them the possibilities are endless."

Comments

Knockers

[kanweg]

A couple of knockers on a computer. What else is new?

Bert
Who learned his slang from a James Bond movie (the one with Famke Jansen)

Re:I don't know about you, but. . .

[kimvette]

Despite the fact that it's designed to withstand an accidental drop, I still would not go out of my way to intentionally knock the thing around. Have you any idea just how tight the tolerances are in modern hard drives? Sure they're machined better than hard drives of the past, but with the tighter tolerances I'd avoid intentionally jostling the things while they're running.