Student Chris Varenhorst has come up with a smart way to open the door of his room. With electronic and hydraulic components he built a automatic door opener. He now has the ability to open his door remotely. » iDoor: The iPhone Controlled Door
Walky is a robot that can walk, jump and play soccer just like a real human. How? By using the iPhone. This concept allows people to control the robot. You use your fingers to simulate how to walk. If you let the robot walk while rotating the iPhone, the robot rotates as well. You can also simulate a kick to let the robot kick a football. Walky has been developed in the Digital Life Project at the Graduate School of Media Design of the Japanese Keio University. » Use You iPhone To Control Robot “Walky”
The iPod touch has been put on the market as a gaming device, and certainly not without success. With a pretty large amount of games in the App Store, and fairly low priced, the iPod touch seems to form a threat to Nintendo DS and Sony PSP. » Apple Getting More Serious With Gaming Industry?
True Axis has released its much anticipated Jet Car Stunts racer which has been described as “a fun, over the top, 3D driving game, with massive jumps, mid-air hoops, floating platforms, spiral roadways, outlandish maneuvers and impossible environments.” » “Jet Car Stunts” Raced To The App Store
Users of TomTom’s popular iPhone navigation application will soon be able to use new advanced features in TomTom update 1.2. Last Thursday the update was submitted to Apple for approval. » TomTom Submitted Update 1.2
The Avatar hype seems to have no end. Gameloft is going to release the iPhone version of the Avatar game. To show off the game, they launched a trailer. Knowing Gameloft this will be another great game to have on your iPhone. The graphics look stunning as usual and the price will probably be affordable as well. » Avatar Hype Reaches iPhone
The approval system of Apple has been in the news this year more often then previous years. According to the complaints the system is slow and developers don’t get any insight at all. Many developers had to wait weeks (sometimes even months) before their application was finally approved and showed up in the App Store. To give the developers some insight and a little bit more bearable, Apple made a tracking system which shows the steps to follow before the app gets approved.
