E3: iPhone Steering Wheel and More

By Matt Dunn, USA
for www.touchgen.com

Published: June 3, 2009

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Think Mario Kart Wiimote steering wheel.

It may not seem like such a huge deal, but CTA Digital showed up at our developer part tonight and wowed us with a great new peripheral for the iPhone. This product is so new, that we were among the first to see it in wild. The units they were demoing were the originals! You can see from the screens below that it fits the iPhone snugly, and comes with attachments to fit the iPod Touch as well.

There aren’t any integrated buttons or anything, simply because this hasn’t been done yet (outside of jailbreaking), and it won’t become an option until iPhone v3.0. CTA did mention that this was something they would like to look into in the future, which is an exciting thought.

They had two versions of the steering wheel. One that you hold free in your hands, and one that mounts to a surface with a large suction cup. They also demoed a cool Xbox 360-like grip for the iPhone to make it more comfortable to play. The concept of these is not new at all, but for the iPhone, and with the production quality, they were pretty impressive. I believe they said the regular wheel would be around $10. What do you guys think? Would you get something like this for you iPhone/Touch?

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8 Comments on "E3: iPhone Steering Wheel and More"

Phil on Wed, 3rd Jun 2009 9:07 am

You Know you like ime in that picture.

Rock $ Rolla on Wed, 3rd Jun 2009 9:47 am

Pretty Good

Brandon on Wed, 3rd Jun 2009 11:39 am

Who’s the charedi guy?

DannyV on Wed, 3rd Jun 2009 4:54 pm

This would only be cool if they could somehow figure out how to play it on your TV or computer monitor.

STP_Tim on Thu, 4th Jun 2009 1:52 am

What games will it work for?

Nathan Mustafa, USA on Thu, 4th Jun 2009 3:39 am

From what I gather this works with any tilt game that requires you to hold the iphone in the landscape orientation. Seems like something you could make yourself with a dinner plate and some scotch tape like those plastic tennis and baseball peripherals you see for the wii. Looks to be for those with money to burn and a need to make their iphone lose portability (You aren’t getting that in your pocket).

legend.inc on Thu, 4th Jun 2009 6:04 am

i would buy it if it had buttons for further control!

Josh Schwartz on Sun, 7th Jun 2009 9:28 pm

Brandon I found your question “ who is this Charedi guy” very offensive and racist. What difference does it make who it is? If I would be an African American or Hispanic would you ask the same????????????????? Shame on you

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