The same guys who showed you how to put together a two-buck MultiTouch interface have also come up with software that takes the fun back to the iPhone: they’ve figured out how to access the handset’s accelerometers, opening up all manner of twisty game and general iPhone wankery possibilities.  Turns out that while it’s possible to access the 3-axis data from within Safari, the sample rate there is generally too slow to be especially useful; the Medallia hack gives access to true third-party apps and at as fast a rate as the sensor can supply it.

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So aside from a swish demo, what does this mean?  Well, for a start you can finally use your iPhone as one of those “guide a ball around a maze” games, of the sort you sometimes get in Christmas crackers.  Medallia have been kind enough to release the source code, so it’s up to the developers to make the most of it.  A driving game, tilting the iPhone to steer might be quite fun too.

Source Code