This is pointless news. Acclerometers and other parts are always going to get smaller, and I feel that Engadget thought would be "cool" to report something as "leet" as the latest developments in acceleromters. They probably saw the wiimote a few months ago with an accelerometer and figured that they now had the divine obligation to report the latest developments. I estimate that fewer than five percent of the readers can even interface to anything with I2C/SPI. Engadget, this is not your field and stop trying to act like it is. Stick to the cell phones, latest macs, and other user news.

Bah, built-in memory is so overrated. 2-4gb will be dwarfed in 3 years when we have 16gb SD cards.
Get with the program people. @resource And I didn't know so many thought USB drives are a fashion accessory.

Actually, these have been around for quite a while.
http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=2941010&CatId=942
http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=1567039&CatId=942
http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=1779375&CatId=942

I've had the second one for over a year and it works great.

I rate this the dumbest invention of the month.

If this guy had any brains, he would have wired a mcu or similar directly to the buttons and interfaces them electronically.

This is a pinnacle of inefficiency, especially as a hack. It's almost a joke-a rube goldberg machine.

A mechanical interface, under no circumstances be considered reliable. This hack could be infinitely more elegant, intelligent, and practical if it were wired directly to the controller's innards. Not to mention the fact that it would certainly be more responsive (and this can be dumbed down in software if its too much of a problem in-game), easier to build, and logically a ton more practically.

The excuse of "saving an x360 controller" simple won't fly. I would trade 10 hours for 2, and maybe $30-35 dollars of equipment shipped for a single $5 attiny2313 and some passives interfaced directly to the x360 controller. Chances are you won't have to salvage the controller either, if its built clean enough to be modular/not-permanent.

I don't understand how people can be so stupid these days. How come the above never crossed this dude's mind? I'm sure it's not a question of experience, this guy has demonstrated a substantial grasp of electronics (including digital) to implement the above.

It's probably only a week away...

Oh my god.

"I think its important to understand the fact that Apple has no control over how hots Intel's processors run."

WTF?
I think you might be a bit too much on the I-am-an-Apple-whore-no-matter-how-shitty-quality-control-has-been side.

CPUs, even Intel Core Duos, can be cooled down to adequate temperatures. It can be done, and it is Apple's responsibility to do it.

This is not a "hack". A hack is an elegant and intelligent approach and solution to a problem. This is neither elegant or intelligent, or really a solution.

It also costs a minimum of $150, for which you could easily buy several wireless controllers for every system mentioned.

I think people are forgetting what a "hack" really is. Unless this is meant to be absurd and funny, this is just complete bullshit.