Paint With Shockdraw By Tilting Your Notebook

Posted by Martin in Windows, software  Tags: , , , ,

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Binary Fortress Software is best known for their wallpaper software Display Fusion but also home to some other interesting software products. One that has been added today is called Shockdraw and its more of a proof of concept application. The concept of accelerometer in notebooks is pretty new to me I have to admit, not even sure if my Toshiba notebook has one build in or not. Can’t remember seeing it in the product’s description.

The demonstration video at the Shockdraw website looks pretty interesting though especially if you consider that the application has a size of 48 Kilobytes which includes the source code.

Basically what needs to be done is to start the application and paint on the screen by tilting the notebook in a direction. Tilting it up for example would draw the line to the top while tilting it to the lower right corner would make it draw in that direction.

I suggest you take a look at the demonstration video to see how it works. And if anyone could let me know if an accelerometer is build into every notebook or only into special ones.


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Rarst says, July 14th, 2008   

I think it’s far from “every”, accelerometer in notebooks is mainly used to stop hard drive (to reduce damage) when notebook is falling. So they are used mostly in smaller and more expensive ones.

arturogoga says, July 14th, 2008   

Macbooks and MBPs do include accelerometers. Also, take a look at “MacSaber”, another awesome use for it

notebook » Blog Archive » Paint With Shockdraw By Tilting Your Notebook says, July 14th, 2008   

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Matt Dawson says, July 15th, 2008   

IBM/Lenovo thinkpads have had accelerometers build in since the T40 series. The program works fine with my T60.

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