Mac notebooks' accelerometer was designed to protect your laptops from damage in case of droppage. However, smart minds have put this ingenious innovation to other fun use. A certain Raul was even able to come up with a list of entertaining hacks based on the accelerometer. 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 accelerometer are translated into input data for the keyboard or mouse. Now, AMS2HID can also provide us a fun 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 see the marbles move with your laptop's motion. If your eyes suddenly turn green with envy, the download for AMS2HID is below and NeverBall can be downloaded via Icculus. Go and try your hand at a Wii-style playing on your Mac. Enjoy! To learn more about AMS2HID, visit the developer's site here.

Download: [AMS2HID]