App Gun: New toy turns iPhone into an AR blaster

Pocket Lint ^ | 25 January 2011 9:27 GMT | By Stuart Miles

[Swordmaker]

A UK toy company is hoping to turn the iPhone and iPod touch into a blaster gun, bringing the Apple tech to a whole new generation.

In what is likely to appeal to kids of all ages, there will be three toys to kick off what the company is calling “Apptoyz” - a new range of accessories with apps to control them.

The first will be the app gun, which takes your Apple device and puts it into a blaster for you to fend off invading aliens.

The accompanying free application will be an Augmented Reality app that sees you blasting aliens as they fly towards you in the real-world environment you're in.

A trigger on the gun moves a rubber stamp that presses on the screen, getting around the need for any electronics, which also keeps the price down to under £20 ($32.50 US).

Available in April, the creators have told us that they are hoping other developers will take the patented blaster and create a bevy of other games and apps for it.

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[Swordmaker]

Plastic toy gun frame turns iPhone or iPod touch into Alien Zapping ray gun game... PING!

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[CPOSharky]

Another toy libtards can use to blame conservatives for libtard wacko attacks on libtards.

[andy58-in-nh]

If they want to make something useful, give me an app that allows me to mount my Droid on a Picatinny rail and use the camera as a holographic sight.

[cowboyway]

If they want to make something useful, give me an app that allows me to mount my Droid on a Picatinny rail and use the camera as a holographic sight.

Don't know what the Droid can do but if you had an iPhone you could call in an airstrike:

Find the taliban

[andy58-in-nh]

I believe I can do that - between Google Maps, live cameras and the GPS app, I can mark a target down to an error radius of about 15 feet or so!

[spokeshave]

Can we get a video loop of 0bambi riding his bike around...?

[JoeProBono]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=obeHJmmhLkc

[MaxMax]

In my day we used those deadly automatic BB guns. In fact an old friend
still has a BB lodged in his throat.

[antiRepublicrat]

They already have a Picatinny rail mount for an iPod Touch with a ballistics calculator.

The problem with the sight would be the light-gathering ability of the phone’s tiny camera and it’s reactiveness to changing input. Imagine swinging your weapon, the camera and screen could get a bit behind, would definitely be a bit jerky. Now imagine in low-light conditions. You wouldn’t be seeing much.

[andy58-in-nh]

The problem with the sight would be the light-gathering ability of the phone’s tiny camera and it’s reactiveness to changing input. Imagine swinging your weapon, the camera and screen could get a bit behind, would definitely be a bit jerky. Now imagine in low-light conditions. You wouldn’t be seeing much.

That's all true - I guess I'll stick with the EOtech. ;-).