Why does my (HP Pavilion) notebook have an accelerometer?

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Published on 2010-06-06T12:49:10Z Indexed on 2010/06/06 12:53 UTC
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I have an HP Pavilion DM3 notebook, running Debian Squeeze GNU/Linux (although I doubt that's relevant to my question). Browsing through the device manager listing, I found an entry for an "ST LIS3LV02DL Accelerometer."

What is this actually for? And can I do anything really nifty with it?

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