TouchArcade reported yesterday on an interesting patent filed by Apple in 2008. The patent fin question is US20100081505 and is titled ACCESSORY FOR PLAYING GAMES WITH A PORTABLE ELECTRONIC DEVICE. The patent is described as follows: Circuits, methods, and apparatus that provide user interfaces for playing games on portable electronic devices. One example provides a [...]
The iCade, an arcade cabinet for your iPad. It’s not real, but man do I ever wish it was. I love anything that’ll get us past replicated d-pads. Until this is actually made we’ll just have to hold out for an iPad version of the Gamebone. Thanks for the chuckle ThinkGeek.
Yeah, that’s as awful as I expected it too be.
This device, will be making it’s debut at GDC 2010, neat, but lets be honest here, look at it. It screams “personal massager.” The glowing red ball doesn’t help either. I can’t be the only one thinking it. Who was the product designer on this thing? More info on this gem over at Kotaku.
Fail. IGN has an article and some more atrocious screens HERE. If you really feel like you need to see more.