Mefite video on smackbook effect

June 15, 2006 7:18 AM

Metafilter reader makes cool YouTube video revising the smackbook effect. The blue and yellow scheme is quite recognizable @ 23 sec.
posted by theora55 to MetaFilter-Related at 7:18 AM (10 comments total)

who types like that? his ibook is going to fall off that fucking table if he keeps typing like that.
posted by naxosaxur at 7:38 AM on June 15, 2006

what is the "smackbook" thing anyway?
posted by amberglow at 9:06 AM on June 15, 2006

amberglow: smackbook

I noticed that too, very cool and man that guy uses teeny fonts to read mefi with (and underlined links? ick!)
posted by mathowie (staff) at 9:15 AM on June 15, 2006 [1 favorite]

so what is he doing there instead of smacking it? It looks like he's just moving his hand around.
posted by puke & cry at 11:04 AM on June 15, 2006

He's moving his hand over the ambient light sensor. Apparently someone's added that as an input device for virtual screen switching.
posted by majick at 11:40 AM on June 15, 2006

ah, ambient light sensor. Fancy.
posted by puke & cry at 12:33 PM on June 15, 2006

"who types like that? his ibook is going to fall off that fucking table if he keeps typing like that."

I'm guessing he lacks a tripod and so angled himself such that a camera could be placed on the table with a view of the screen for recording purposes. You can tell by the way he types that the posture is an uncomfortable and unusual one.
posted by Eideteker at 1:21 PM on June 15, 2006

that's for real? what model macs?
posted by amberglow at 9:22 PM on June 15, 2006

or did he have to connect it all up himself?
posted by amberglow at 9:22 PM on June 15, 2006

It looks like he is using a typewriter and hitting the carriage return.
posted by Cranberry at 12:36 AM on June 16, 2006