2005-03-07 16:35:22
Have you ever been sitting in front of your Powerbook, listening to a song in iTunes and felt you wouldn't mind "bumping" on to the next track? Well, now you can just give your laptop a nudge and get on with the playlist. Interconnected.org has released Bumptunes for recent Powerbooks. Bumptunes is a Python application that works in conjunction with an application that reads the new Powerbooks' sudden motion sensor to allow the user to physically nudge their machine in order to advance to the next track in iTunes.
From the project site:Apple's PowerBook laptops now have a little accelerometer inside that's used to protect the hard drive if you drop it (it notices the sudden speed increase and parks the drive heads). This guy has found a way to tap into the sudden motion sensor, and Timo was just round my house with his brand new PowerBook, so we spent a few minutes of looking at the stuff on that site (a window that rotates so it's always the right way up). Then we saw there was a little tool that gives you the angle of the machine in three dimensions. Aha. (I love accelerometers.)
After a few more minutes, we had the tilt sensor controlling Timo's music. You rock the machine backwards for the next track, and rock it forwards for the previous track. Then we realised that you rarely need "previous"--you just listen to music, and when a track comes on your don't want to hear, you jog your laptop and it bumps on to the next song (and you don't need to be in iTunes). Wicked. Tasty microembodiment. This truly takes the user interface to a whole new level....
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