Use tablet instead of table to control GE

Inspired by the Smackbook demo and the tabletop Google Earth at the Where Fair, I am trying to use my Toshiba M200 tablet to control Google Earth (and others). Unlike the MacBook and ThinkPad (SmackPad), the Toshiba comes with a utility to take advantage of the accelerometer out of the box (though I haven’t used it in the 2 years I’ve had the tablet). The downside is the lack of an API for the Toshiba accelerometer to allow you to move beyond the very simple functions in the utility.

An example video of how a ThinkPad has been used to control Google Maps is available here.

I will try to get a video of it working with Google Earth or ArcGlobe up as soon as I get a video camera 🙂