Accelerometer in the Nokia N95

The Nokia N95 includes a built-in accelerometer.  If you are like me, you are saying an accele-what??

An accelerometer is a device for measuring the total specific external force on the sensor.  Meaning, it senses motion.

The accelerometer was originaly only used for video stabilization and photo orientation (to keep landscape or portrait pictures oriented as taken).

Nokia Research Center has just recently allowed an application interface directly to the acceleromater, allowing software to use the data from it.

Third-party programs have already begun to appear, including RotateMe, which will automatically change the screen orientation when the phone is tilted and Lightsaber, which causes the phone to make the sounds of the Star Wars Lightsaber when waved through the air.