Get your own SmackBook Pro
Remember Scott's 'Smack your MacBook Pro' post from yesterday? It looks like Scott got his wish: now you can go a step further and get your own SmackBook Pro. That's right boys and girls, for the low low price of nothing (all code is released under the GPL), you too can have your very own smackable MacBook Pro. If you don't want to deal with the instructions, some commenters have compiled new versions; scroll down for the links.
It sounds like this might work on any Apple notebooks with a motion sensor, as I also noticed some commenters were tinkering with getting this to work on a recent 12" PowerBook. Either way, Erling Ellingsen has ushered in a brave new world of computing - a world where you can literally smack your computer to make it do something productive.
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Remember Scott's 'Smack your MacBook Pro' post from yesterday? It looks like Scott got his wish: now you can go a step further and get...
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i'm sure i posted this in the comments section of the other post.
May 25 2006 at 8:11 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyStop hitting your laptop!
May 25 2006 at 1:30 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyGreat idea until you shake the GPU lose with all the abuse.
It does have a certain old school typewriter feel to it though.
Cool. But both links point to yesterday's post. I guess the second link should be http://blog.medallia.com/2006/05/smacbook_pro.html
May 25 2006 at 10:35 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyThis is great! Add iAlertU to this system and you really have the computer paying attention!
I'll try to find a way to add this to my podcast, and report back personally.
I want to buy a macbook now just so I can have this feature. It's so flippin sweet!!
May 25 2006 at 10:21 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyNot forgetting the 2005 iBooks which also have motion sensors. Everyone forgets about those ones. :D
May 25 2006 at 10:19 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyThe guy uses a desktop manager and activates it with the smack. Would be pretty neat if the same thing could be done to activate expose, no? Just a thought. Keep the pimp hand strong...
May 25 2006 at 10:05 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyHot Apps on TUAW
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