Freescale unveils uber-thin 3-axis accelerometer

News Reader · Post by **News Reader** » June 12th, 2007, 11:00

Freescale unveils uber-thin 3-axis accelerometer
Filed under: Cellphones, Gaming, Peripherals

Make no mistake about it, accelerometers have certainly been all the rage of late, and Freescale Semiconductor isn't missing its chance to cash in on the bonanza. The firm has recently announced what it calls the "world's thinnest 3-axis digital-output accelerometer" for use in motion-based user interfaces, and it checks in at around "77-percent smaller" than existing offerings. The MMA7450L is available in a 0.8-millimeter thin plastic land grid array, eliminates the need for a dedicated analog-to-digital converter, includes three g-select sensitivities, and is almost ready to rock in tomorrow's most diminutive controllers, handhelds, and mobile handsets. Currently, only major manufacturers are getting their hands around samples, but general availability of the $2.66 device (when you order 10,000, that is) is expected by Q3 of this year.

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Post by **FatherJack** » June 12th, 2007, 13:13

What a rubbish thing to be called an accelerometer, I was expecting something more like this:

[img size=400]http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a115/ ... rcan04.jpg[/img]

Post by **fabyak** » June 12th, 2007, 13:52

That's a future AIDS cannon n'est pas?

spoodie · Post by **spoodie** » June 12th, 2007, 14:01

Now I'd be more impressed with the PS3 if it had ones of those babies!

Post by **Dog Pants** » June 12th, 2007, 14:59

Is the purpose of that thing to turn real rocks into shitty looking cardboard ones?

spoodie · Post by **spoodie** » June 12th, 2007, 16:55

btw, is that from the pilot episode of the original Star Trek? The Cage.

Post by **FatherJack** » June 12th, 2007, 16:59

spoodie wrote:btw, is that from the pilot episode of the original Star Trek? The Cage.

You know it is.

spoodie · Post by **spoodie** » June 12th, 2007, 17:58

FatherJack wrote:You know it is.

I suppose, just wanted someone to say it.