The accelerometer is the technology of the moment, featuring in the Wii and iPhone, both of the era’s biggest breakout technologies. Jason Kottke, always provocative dares to ask: Do their sensors measure up to those built into babies? The answer may shock you.
So while the Wiimote’s accelerometer may be more sensitive, the psychological pressure exerted on the parent while lowering a sleeping baby slowly and smoothly enough so as not to wake them with the Moro reflex and thereby squandering 40 minutes of walking-the-baby-to-sleep time is beyond intense and so much greater than any stress one might feel serving for the match in tennis or getting that final strike in bowling.
Via Digg.
