Timeline for What makes smartphones tilt-sensitive? Will they retain this ability in zero-gravity conditions?
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| May 12, 2017 at 3:25 | comment | added | Wildcard | @ChristianPalmer, it's in free fall. There is no such thing as zero gravity anywhere. | |
| May 11, 2017 at 23:32 | comment | added | Flambino | Mac nerd here, but I think the IBM/Lenovo ThinkPads had accelerometers a little earlier. At least I remember them talking up the feature. The MacBook ones might have been more easily accessible in software though, and hence more hacking friendly. Digital cameras also had auto screen rotation a little while before smartphones made it commonplace. | |
| May 11, 2017 at 15:28 | comment | added | Christian Palmer | Small point, but the ISS is not in zero-gravity - it's in orbit. | |
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| May 11, 2017 at 14:17 | comment | added | Joren Vaes | Perhaps worth mentioning that magnetometers are also very easily disturbed by metal structures, magnetic fields, ... | |
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| May 11, 2017 at 14:08 | history | answered | pjc50 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |