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Apple Smackbook

Apple’s new MacBooks have a motion sensor to stop hard-disk damage if you drop it. Erling Ellingsen has hacked the sensor so you can switch desktops by gently smacking the side of your MacBook! Very intuitive. Here’s the code for the hack and a video of it in action.

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