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by TeMPOraL 2893 days ago
> What we need, and will probably get soon, is inertial guidance based on laser ring or fibre optic gyros in mobiles.

Isn't this precisely how accelerometers/gyros in mobiles work?

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Thanks! I didn't know about those.

For some reason I was convinced phone gyros use light interference in a spiral of optic fiber. Probably because I read about that design when I was looking how solid-state gyros in RC models work.