Very cool: automatic screen rotation with ThinkPad X61 tablet

Thursday, February 14th, 2008

Very cool idea to use data from a hard drive accelerometer to drive automagic screen orientation on a tablet pc. Very cool.

Posted by md on February 14th, 2008 | Filed in Desktop, Linux, Open Source Software, Technology, Ubuntu |

February 14th, 2008 at 5:27 pm

Brian said:

Once upon a time, someone mentioned using Knockage (http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/library/l-knockage.html) along with something like 3ddesktop so that you could slap the side of your screen and switch to a different virtual desktop. I had it going, then I realized that doing this probably means gradually trashing your hard drive if you’re an active switcher (or vigorous knocker).

One really good use, though, was if you have X hang, or whatever, you could have it automatically restart when you angrily shake the laptop.

Now THAT’s HCI for you.
February 14th, 2008 at 6:31 pm

md said:

That’s funny - innovative - and absolutely not the intent of having a hard drive accelerometer!
February 15th, 2008 at 5:21 pm

Vadim P. said:

… you mean the smackpad:

http://smspillaz.wordpress.com/2007/11/20/compiz-fusion-community-news-for-november-20th-features-features-features/

Yep, someone actually did it.

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