The phone 's internal compass and accelerometer also come into play to help determine its location .
手机内置的罗盘和加速度计亦能帮助手机定位。
The new nano continues to include a built-in accelerometer , although this time around it 's used only for the pedometer and the shake to shuffle feature .
新款nano依然带有内建的加速度计,虽然这次它只是用来实现步程计和“摇晃切歌”功能的。
All women also wore an accelerometer , a small device the size of a match box , to track their energy expenditure and their time spent in activities of different intensities .
What 's more , game designers are inspired by the advantages of the phone itself , such as its touch screen and the accelerometer , which changes the orientation of the screen when the user tips the phone to one side .
As it leaves , however , a miniature accelerometer built into it detects the retraction and passes this information along an optical fibre to a computer . The computer responds by sending a radio signal down the needle shaft .
The researchers have shown that the accelerometer and orientation sensor of a phone resting on a surface can be used to eavesdrop as a password is entered using a keyboard on the same surface .
This remote control , called the gamepad , upgrades the overall gaming experience with features commonly found on smartphones like touch gestures , a gyroscope , an accelerometer , a stylus for handwriting and a front-facing camera .
Jobs is also expected to demonstrate some third-party iphone applications , available in june , which could include games that use the phone 's accelerometer as a control , new mapping software , and quick ways to update profiles on social networks such as facebook or myspace .
Laptops make poor seismographs because , unless they are nailed down , any quake worth its salt-and of interest to the qcn researchers-would move the computer bodily along with its sensitive accelerometer , making nonsense of its seismic reading .