The original micro machine motion sensor, technically known as an accelerometer, was introduced for air-bag deployment in 1991.

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Travis Boatman from Electronic Arts showed off a project based on Spore that the videogame giant's developers cobbled together in two weeks that took advantage of iPhone's accelerometer and touch-screen interface to guide the evolution of a hungry micro-organism.

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Travis Boatman from Electronic Arts (nasdaq: ERTS - news - people ) showed off a project based on Spore that the videogame giant's developers cobbled together in two weeks that took advantage of iPhone's accelerometer and touch-screen interface to guide the evolution of a hungry micro-organism.

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