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12.0pt'>A Boston-based company, <a href="http://www.motuscorporation.com/"
target="_blank">Motus Corporation</a>, hopes to take advantage of the Wii's
popularity through a new product: the Motus Darwin , which allows motion-based control
on non-Nintendo game <a
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including the PC. Motus Darwin measures absolute position with respect to
earth itself. Using gyroscopes and accelerometers, the controller orients
itself to the magnetic north, and senses the direction it is pointing. Mahajan
explains that this method has not been used before because the gyroscopes and
accelerometers have a tendency towards errors. Through Motus's work on iClub,
he says, the company has designed a combination of hardware, software and
firmware that corrects the error. Finally, the system relays its positional
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