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Happy Harry Potter Day, techies. But in a fight between magic’s biggest badboy and technology’s most feared, who would win? Should Harry not fight, but travel through time and reprogram a robot to do his bidding? Will he?? There’s only one way to find out. Read the book? No way. Vote and then argue in the comments (without spoiling it if you already know Harry goes all John Connor on His-Ass-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named).
Some clever fellow has managed to create a version of Pong, to run on your Mac laptop, utilizing the sudden motion sensors and the microphone. The controls are semi-intuitive. Literal tilting controls the direction of the paddle. Secondly, the size of the paddle is determined via the microphone; greater dB’s equates to a larger size. Hit the jump for a video.
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