Yes.
This feature can be found on Samsung, LG, Sony, HTC devices -- because their product managers decided that "it has to be like the iPhone".
What they all forgot to do is document it for use by third party apps.
Someone figured it out for Samsung and Sony, but I'm unable to find anything on LG and HTC.
Oh, and the irony -- HTC has an "OpenSense SDK" with a bunch of stuff (hey, a date picker!), but not this. Same goes for LG.