iFun turns your iPhone /iPod Touch into a Wiimote, or projectile
Is iFun cool? Yes, very much so. Is risking the livelihood of your iPhone or iPod Touch in the name of gaming a good idea? Well, the jury is still out on that one. As seen in the relatively cheesy video above, iFun is a gaming suite by SGN that allows users to connect to a computer and use an iPhone or iPod Touch as a motion-controller while playing games. It’s reportedly a bit laggy, but still a very cool use case for Apple’s touchy devices. Still, we have to recommend you tread with caution here as there’s a reason the Wiimote has a wrist strap – to prevent it from flying out of your hand and impaling your TV. It’s one thing to sacrifice a $30 Wiimote to the gods of gaming but it’ll be hard to shrug off a $200+ loss when that iPhone slips out of your hand and smashes all over your wall or desk. Our advice? Listen to Shaq: “The law of physics states that a body in motion stays in motion. And if you have two objects that meet in the air, the smaller object is going to fall much harder at the same rate of speed it was going.”
[Via Gadget Lab]
It is about time they came out with a good use for the iphone. It can’t make calls worth a damn, or really do anything else that well. But hey the kool-aid drinkers love it. gotta love a “crapple”
Were did the video go?
doh! Links totally dead, I was excited to see someone launch.. err… wiimote with their iPhone.
I agree with jbates.
I can also agree with BG about the smaller item will lose against a bigger wall. I saw it happen when I threw my iphone at the wall after it kept dropping my calls when I was trying to setup an interview for a job. Needless to say, I threw it when I called back for the 5th time and they said nevermind!
It also makes for a great drink coaster
this didn’t work for me!