Last month Apple released its new PowerBooks with a few nice little feature including the trackpad scrolling and the Sudden Motion Sensor that will lock the hard-drive if dropped. Not content to just accept this as the only feature a few sensors can add, a few enterprising hackers have added some functionality using the powerbooks motion to control applications.

Enterprising hackers have discovered that because the new motion sensor returns reasonably accurate measurements to Mac OS X, it can be used to do some cool tricks, from realigning an image in a window so it always points up, no matter what angle you hold the laptop at, to controlling what’s playing in iTunes — rock the machine backward to go to the next track, forward to play the previous one.

All the details in Wired.

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