Couple of clever developers from the University of South Florida have created a native iPhone application to remotely operate iRobot's Packbot unit (that is one of the robots the US military is apparently using for surveillance/urban intelligence gathering operations in Iraq and Afghanistan). So you might not be trying this out but like the native iPhone app developed to control Unmaned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) and iPhone Lego NXT Robot, an iPhone app developed by Battlebricks to use the iPhone as a remote to control a Lego Mindstorms Rover, this application falls in the very cool category of native iPhone apps.
Written by iPhonehacks on June 22nd, 2008 with no comments.
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iPhone hacking geniuses have already brought us the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) emulator, the Game Boy Advance (GBA) emulator, ScummVM, the emulation engine that allows you to play popular LucasArts and Sierra games and Playstation (PS1 or PSX) emulator for the iPhone. And if you are still not satisfied, then ZodTTD who had released the first public version of the Playstation (PS1 or PSX) emulator for the iPhone and iPod Touch has recently ported TurboGrafx-16 emulator, Temper, to iPhone.
Written by iPhonehacks on May 31st, 2008 with no comments.
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The iPhone hacking community has already given us a glimpse of the potential of the iPhone as a gaming platform with native iPhone games like Raging Thunder and with the official native iPhone games around the corner it is safe to say that this is just the beginning. If you are not convinced then checkout the video clip (after the jump) of the pre-alpha preview version of native iPhone game Kingdom Lores, a 3D fantasy game for the iPhone based on a custom OpenGL rendering engine.
Written by iPhonehacks on May 26th, 2008 with no comments.
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We have seen some interesting native games for the iPhone such as Raging Thunder that have taken advantage of iPhone's accelerometer and can expect games like Doom and Quake 3 to be ported to the iPhone soon. Though all that is exciting news for iPhone users, I prefer the physical controls that are available in portable gaming consoles like Sony's PSP rather than using iPhone's touchscreen and the accelerometer. Some enterprising folks seem to agree and are currently developing an iPhone accessory called iControlpad which is expected to be released soon will add physical buttons and joypad to the iPhone.
Written by iPhonehacks on May 25th, 2008 with no comments.
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Synchstep is a native iPhone application with an interesting concept. Synchstep for the iPhone plays songs from your music library in a way they claim connects the music in your head to the music in your body. As developer Greg Elliot puts it "use synchstep when you don't know what you want to listen to, when you don't care, or when you just want something good. let go of some control. let your feet pick the beat."
Written by iPhonehacks on May 18th, 2008 with no comments.
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