{"id":8948,"date":"2006-05-22T00:29:34","date_gmt":"2006-05-22T00:29:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/streettech.dreamhosters.com\/?p=8948"},"modified":"2006-05-22T00:29:34","modified_gmt":"2006-05-22T00:29:34","slug":"use-the-sudden-motion-sensor-luke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/?p=8948","title":{"rendered":"Use the Sudden Motion Sensor, Luke!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=\"right\" valign=\"top\" src=\"https:\/\/streettech.com\/storypics\/macsaber.jpg\">Ever since geeks discovered the sudden motion sensor in Mac notebooks, they&#8217;ve been trying to figure out what cool things can be done with it. Many dumb ideas have followed. This is another one of those. <a href=\"http:\/\/isnoop.net\/blog\/2006\/05\/20\/macsaber-turn-your-mac-into-a-jedi-weapon\/\" target=\"new\">MacSaber<\/a> turns your laptop into a lightsaber! Sorta. Okay, not really. It makes the lightsaber whoosh-whoo sound as you flail around, swinging your multi-thousand dollar investment perilously close to heavy furniture and cowering friends and co-workers. And no, they&#8217;re not fleeing in terror &#8217;cause they&#8217;re overwhelmed by your Jedi prowess, they&#8217;re being repelled by the sheer pathos involved in a grown human being having stooped so slow. So very, very low.<\/p>\n<p> <i>Thanks, Jay!<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ever since geeks discovered the sudden motion sensor in Mac notebooks, they&#8217;ve been trying to figure out what cool things can be done with it. Many dumb ideas have followed. This is another one of those. MacSaber turns your laptop into a lightsaber! Sorta. Okay, not really. It makes the lightsaber whoosh-whoo sound as you &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/streettech.com\/?p=8948\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Use the Sudden Motion Sensor, Luke!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geek"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8948","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8948"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8948\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}