Get seasick with Liquid Mac

You know that sudden motion sensor that's buried in your Mac to protect your hard drive? Want to have a little fun with it? Then check out Liquid Mac, a neat little app that makes your laptop's screen look like it's filled with colored water.

Once you've downloaded the app, select the color and response sensitivity you want, then gently tilt your laptop and watch the fluid splash around the screen. It's oddly soothing, actually, unless you slosh it around too fast and make yourself nauseous.

When you tire of making waves, adjust the settings to represent beads and watch it rain on your screen. To see Liquid Mac in action, check out this cool video.

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Source: http://uri.cat/software/LiquidMac/

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Big John

Neat app. Thanks for the small time waster!

June 14 2008 at 2:48 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

brian

You know the old trick where you can use your screensaver as your desktop background?
http://www.macworld.com/article/46794/2005/09/ssaverdestkopanimate.html
It would be cool if this could run like that. Then you could let it run when you're working in a car or plane. Then you could research which method is the best for getting puke out of a laptop keyboard. :-)

June 13 2008 at 2:29 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

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Brandon Martinez

Hmm, that is a neat concept. DO IT! DO IT! DO IT!

June 13 2008 at 11:43 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

wizzle

shame not all 'Mac' computers are laptops :-(

June 13 2008 at 1:56 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Kim Kwan

Too bad it doesn't do upside down, just left and right.

June 13 2008 at 1:28 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

PSM

Cool little app. My accelerometer also appeared backwards until I checked the "flip axes" button.

June 13 2008 at 1:28 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Jake J.

Well, that isn't useless at all... :)

June 13 2008 at 1:05 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Russ

Here's one that lets you do more. I was playing with this for hours.

http://www.octaveengine.com/en/casual/trial.html

June 13 2008 at 12:44 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

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Tony Hoyle

Great stuff.

btw. My accelerometer appears to be reversed too.

June 13 2008 at 1:16 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Jared Cook

I think my accelerometer is installed backwards -- the liquid sloshes the wrong way. Same thing when I use the Tunnel game ( http://uri.cat/software/Tunnel/ ). Anyone else have this problem?

June 13 2008 at 12:42 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply