The Register has pointed out that an Swiss Television show named “Einstein” wanted to see if an iPad would be able to correctly handle it’s screen rotation in “Zero G”.  So they hired an “Vomit Comet” flight to prove how well it works…

Well, it’s safe to say that an Accelerometer needs to have gravity to correctly detect the acceleration/movement…  At least the current batch in the iPad right now.

Maybe Steve Jobs will see this posting and have the boffins come up with some non-gravity utilizing accelerometers…