Analog Devices
What's two millimeters square, can sense three ranges of motion (up and down, side to side, and front to back), and has caused six months of mass hysteria at electronics retailers everywhere? It's an accelerometer from Analog Devices in Cambridge, Mass. Analog fellow Jack Memishian developed the breakthrough chip for unimagined handheld devices. Then Nintendo came calling, put it into the Wii remote, and the rest is history. --J.O. 
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