College has some great points. If you know where to look, you can get onto trips for subjects you aren’t even taking, so I got onto the Btec ICT trip. I do A-Level Computing, which is more programming less gaming. Btec however is more gaming than programming. The trip was to IBM to see a talk about “The future of video games”.
IBM has a base quite near Winchester, Hursley to be a matter of fact. Its research and development down there. They worked on the Cell chip and early colour monitors in the past. Currently it looks like a good place to apply for a job at in the future.
So we go into one of IBM’s presentational hall and sit though a so-so PowerPoint about how video games have evolved and where there gonna go. Then came the second bit, playing video games. The next two hours where spent Wii-ing, Xboxing and PS3ing. Education can be fun. 
Best game of the lot? I got to play Tux Racer on a IBM Thinkpad running Gentoo. It had some sort of motion sensor built in. When I tipped the laptop left, left went Tux. When right, Tux went right. And when down, Tux went faster. Oh the fun!
Plus I got a free IBM pen…
They are probably using a sudden motion sensor type thing which detects “sudden motion” and locks the hard disk head to prevent damage and they have that laptop setup to read the values from it and control the game. I have MacSaber in OS X which uses the tilt sensors and accelerometers in my MacBook to make light saber sounds when you move the computer.