Tag Archives: Accelerometer

Tilt to Live, my absolute favourite accelerometer-based action game, has just received a major update. The two new game modes, Gauntlet and Code Red, do a fantastic job of mixing the gameplay up. Code Red is the equivalent of Insane Mode for Minigore — it does away with all of …

I never though this day would come, and yet here I am, posting about a marble-rolling game that you can get for free this weekend. I played a few minutes of Dark Nebula before posting about it, and it’s actually quite a lot of fun. It’s all accelerometer-based, and the …

I spent  30 minutes last night  was struggling to tap anything on-screen in an effort to turn safe mode on and properly uninstall Call Controller, but the screen was barely responding. I’m thinking it was because Call Controller is buggy and doesn’t play nicely with the other apps I have …

This cheered up my Saturday The drinkin’ tinkerers over at Instructables created the Serv O’Beer to interpret a “pouring” motion with an iPhone into a real, albeit foamy, beer. Talk about your ‘showing off’ sort of apps on the iPhone – having it participate in the pouring of a cold …

Dynolicious 2 is an application available on the iPhone and iPod Touch that offers an ‘automotive performance meter’. Sounds interesting? Well it is! From developers BunsenTech LLP, Dynolicious 2 uses the built-in accelerometer of the device to impressively measure various performance metrics of a vehicle. Such as: 0-60 acceleration 1/4 …

Ever want to run Google Earth on your iPhone? That reality might not be very far away. iPhone Earth is a new 3rd party app being worked on by Earthscape. The new app interacts with the iPhone’s accelerometer, which allows you to navigate Google earth by tilting and rotating your …