Controller Articles on TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog

Hands-on with ION Audio's Guitar Apprentice and new iCade models

by Mike Schramm (Jan 18th, 2012)

We first saw ION Audio's really impressive iCade followups at the beginning of CES last week during CES Unveiled, but that little taste at the crowded event wasn't really enough for us, so later in the week we went by the company's booth to get a better look and actually hold and play with the ...

60Beat GamePad controller works with iOS games through the headphone port

by Mike Schramm (Dec 29th, 2011)

There have been a few game controllers released for iOS devices like the iPad and iPhone, but none that I've seen that work as elegantly as the 60beat GamePad promises it will. The GamePad offers all of the buttons you'd expect on a HD generation video game controller (with analog sticks and ...

Daily iPad App: Fuego's River Adventure

by Mike Schramm (Dec 8th, 2011)

Unfortunately, Fuego's River Adventure isn't actually that great of a game. It's extremely simple, the controls aren't precise enough to really make it fun, and while there are about 20 stages to float through where you need to go down a river dodging obstacles and picking up bonus items. I was ...

TUAW's Daily Mac App: Bowtie

by Samuel Gibbs (Jul 13th, 2011)

Have you ever thought iTunes was just a bit plain? Want a customisable controller that you can theme to match your mood? You need Bowtie. We've covered Bowtie before, but it's basically a replacement for the iTunes Mini Player, giving you track information, controls and the ability to rate ...

SNES controller and N64 console turned into iPad docks

by Mike Schramm (Dec 3rd, 2010)

Etsy user Geekunique sent along some links to these great pictures of old school Nintendo gaming units turned into iPad and iPhone docks. Above, you can see a Super Nintendo controller fashioned into a working iPhone 4 dock, and he's also got a Nintendo 64 console (though unfortunately it's the ...

Chill out with the iPhone-powered massage chair

by Mike Schramm (Oct 20th, 2010)

We've seen an iPhone-controlled R2-D2, a quadricopter, a dog treat dispenser, a tank, and even an iPhone-controlled soda machine. But c'mon people, let's get a little more practical here -- let's hook it up to a massage chair. That's exactly what Human Touch did with the HT-9500. For just US$4,999, ...

iTunes 101: Using the Album Art widget

by Mike Schramm (Sep 3rd, 2010)

Here's a cool new feature in iTunes 10 that we haven't mentioned yet: when listening to any song in your library, you can double click on the album art window in the lower left hand corner to detach it from the main window and see it full size. That's not new -- you could get a closer look at the ...

Coming soon: StarCraft 2 controlled with your iPhone

by Mike Schramm (Aug 30th, 2010)

I like this idea a lot -- developer Daniel Hellerman is working on an app for the App Store that will interface with a Windows client to control Blizzard's StarCraft 2 real-time strategy game. The RTS Gameboard for StarCraft 2 is an app, downloadable starting in September on the App Store (assuming ...

iPhone-controlled 3D display, via ping pong balls and air pumps

by Mike Schramm (Aug 24th, 2010)

I'm not quite 100% sure what this is -- it's supposed to be a "floating forecaster," some sort of 3D display for weather information, but to me it looks more like 30 air guns with ping pong balls sitting in them. I don't really see how the "weather" part of the display works, but what's really cool ...

How to play SNES on your iPad

by Mike Schramm (Jul 13th, 2010)

Unfortunately, as we posted the other day, Nintendo isn't likely to actually allow any Super Nintendo games on your iPad anytime soon. That doesn't technically mean you can't do it, though; if you're willing to jailbreak your iPad and install snes4iPhone, you can experience all of the magical and ...

Found footage: Fly an RC plane? There's an iPhone app for that

by Mike Schramm (Jun 5th, 2010)

We're supposed to hear more about the AR.Drone at E3 in a few weeks, but you may not have to wait that long -- Flypad is an app coming soon to the App Store that purports to let you fly any RC-controlled plane with an iPhone, just by connecting the iPhone's audio out signal up to an adapter. The ...

Voices that Matter iPhone: Five iPhone app design mistakes, and how to fix them

by Erica Sadun (Apr 25th, 2010)

TUAW is at the Voices that Matter iPhone developers' conference this weekend, talking to iPhone OS developers of all walks of life. All weekend long, devs are here learning about how to code and design better iPhone applications from some of the best minds and artists on the App Store. We've ...

Apple thinking about game controller, headset

by Mike Schramm (Apr 2nd, 2010)

We've mentioned the idea of an external game controller on the iPhone (and now, the iPad) before, but this is the first we've heard of Apple working on one themselves. Apparently a new patent would cover applying buttons, joysticks, or direction pads to an external controller, something that would ...

Bowtie: iTunes controller with style

by Brett Terpstra (Dec 7th, 2008)

I like the idea of iTunes controllers, but a lot of the apps I try are too CPU intensive or just plain feature-bloated, so I just live with some AppleScripts set to hotkeys. I discovered Bowtie a little while ago, though, and it's a perfect fit for my needs. It's tiny, unobtrusive and its look ...

Woof! An iPhone-controlled dog treat dispenser

by Steven Sande (Dec 4th, 2008)

While you're geeking out with your techie friends building battle bots or pumpkin cannons, why not give your dog a little love at the same time? TUAW reader Stephen Myers sent us a link about a fun little project he worked on. He wants to be able to check on his dog's well-being and reward the dog ...