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The high-tech Gyro Swing: the ultimate club or the ultimate cheat
Gyroscopes. They help us shake apps around on our iPhones (the iPhone doesn't have a gyroscope in it as reported — yet), simulate tennis and boxing on the Wii, and now they may even help you get that perfect swing. The Gyro Swing, by golf outfitter SKLZ (not to be confused with the 13-year-old from Ohio who uses the same name on XBOX Live), is equipped with a "20,000 RPM gyroscope ingrains the 'feel' of the perfect swing." If your stroke falls out of line, the club offers gentle resistant to intuitively guide you back to where the club should be.
Maybe you want one to train your arms. Or maybe you just want to get one up on your boss on the green. Either way the Gyro Swing won't judge, as long as you pay its $200 sticker price.
SKLZ, via Gizmowatch
CORRECTION: The article above mistook the iPhone's gyroscope for its accelerometer. The section has been crossed out.
By BoxerFanatic at 10:18 PM ON 12/11/08
You guys realize that an electronic solid state accelerometer is not the same thing as a flywheel-based gyroscope, right?
Not the same thing.
By MrTaylor at 2:16 PM ON 12/12/08
Gyroscopes measure angular displacement only, they are not influenced by gravity, and there is not one in an iPhone or a Wii(without an add-on)
Apple's Website: "The accelerometer inside iPhone uses three elements: a silicon mass, a set of silicon springs, and an electrical current. The silicon springs measure the position of the silicon mass using the electrical current. Rotating iPhone causes a fluctuation in the electrical current passing through the silicon springs. The accelerometer registers these fluctuations and tells iPhone to adjust the display accordingly"
gyro's are only recently being produced in a form factor feasible for phones, plus they can
on your cellphone!
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