Mac notebooks' acceleromator was designed to protect your laptops from damage in case of droppage. However, smart minds have put this ingenius innovation to other fun use. A certain Raul was even able to come up with a list of entrtaining hacks based on the acceleromator. One of these was AMS2HID, which converts the sudden motion sensor into a human interface device. With this application, the orientation data retrieved from the acceleromator are translated into input data for the keyboard or mouse. Now, AMS2HID can also provide us afun way of playing games on a Mac notebook.

Matt Haughey has downloaded the AMS2HID app and used it to play with the marble tilt game NeverBall (the OS X binary package of which was done by Luc Fabresse). Click on the video and the marbles move with your laptop's motion. If your eyes suddenly turn green, the downloads for AMS2HID and NeverBall are below...try your hand at a Wii-style playing on your Mac. Enjoy!