One of the few issues facing owners of the new iPhone 5s is the compass and built-in level: they are woefully off, leading to drifting issues in games that require the accelerometer for steering. How ...

Computer science student Florian Kraeutli, of Goldsmiths, University of London, has posted a video demonstration in which he successfully uses a jail-broken iPhone 4’s accelerometer to create a ...

Have you ever wondered how your iPhone knows up from down, or when you’re shaking it? It’s all because of the tiny accelerometer chip inside the device, but how does it work? It’s not like the ...