Sure, you can play games and do all kinds of cool stuff on your iPad or your iPhone, but can you control things that aren’t even attached to your device with it? Pretty soon you’ll be able to with a cool new game or gadget (you really can take your pick with what category this falls into), with the AR Drone.
The AR Drone is a helicopter that flies completely independently from the iPhone or the iPad but it operates using an iPad, an iPod Touch, or an iPhone as its remote. The AR Drone is a small disc-shaped helicopter that has cameras at both the front and the rear of it. These cameras send video to the iPod device through a wireless connection, and it’s this that allows the device to control the helicopter. Meanwhile, the user can completely control the helicopter by tilting, turning, and swerving the iPod or by using the touch controls on the iPad’s, iPhone’s, or iPod Touch’s screen. The helicopter also has four fans attached at different points to it, and it is these fans that allow the helicopter to fly around in all directions.
The AR Drone was first unveiled at the 2010 Consumer Electronics Show in January in Las Vegas. It’s set to go on sale in September and will cost $299 to the lucky buyers who want to truly use their iPad, their iPhone, or their iPod Touch in a completely new and different way.
Currently, there are only plans for the AR Drone, or anything else like it, to hit the market. But a France-based developer, Parrot, also has a similar game in the works that it says will be able to run across multiple platforms. So who knows? Maybe soon we’ll all be ducking these airborne devices as we walk down the street, and see people snickering along the sidewalk holding their smartphones and other devices.
Check Out These Too:
- Dolphin Play for the iPod Touch Do you love dolphins and the undersea world? Would you like the opportunity to be a trainer and to teach and raise dolphins? If so, then the Dolphin Play app…
- Free iPhone Games: Icy Escort Icy Escort is a game that is currently within the top 25 applications in the iTunes app store when it comes to free games and that is because of the…
- Apple iPad 2 Jailbroken After Just Two Days on Sale Apple products such as the iPhone and the iPad are well known to get jailbroken by hackers and despite Apple’s attempts to stop this, their releases always seem to be…
- Free iPhone Games: Crazy Bikers If you like bikes then this is the game for you and the great news is that it is completely free from the app store until the weekend this week.…
- Pac-Man Battle Royale for the iPad Who doesn't love Pac Man? We've all, at one time or another, stood at those arcade games (or at least stared at our computer screens) trying to gobble up all…
- Tiny Tower App for iPhone, Ipad and iPod Touch Tiny Tower iTunes App Review by Applerepo.com. Tiny Tower is one of the most popular games out there for the iphone, ipad and ipod touch devices and the great news…
- Google Earth for the iPad and iPhone Google Earth App for iPad is a cool little app that lets you travel the globe while staying in one place, and even lets you see the top of your…
- Pac-Man Lite for the iPod Touch If you want to play the classic game of Pac-Man on your iPod Touch, but don't want to shell out the hefty $7.99 price (sheesh! Who could blame you?) then…
- Clash of Clans - Best iPad War Strategy Game Clash of Clans - Best iPhone War Strategy Game 2014, Blow Things Up with Your iPad - Applerepo.com, As everyone knows, iPad is not just good for giving everyone ease…
- Download Area 51 Defense Free iPad Game Area 51 Defence is a free ipad game that has recently been released for the iPod touch and iPhone devices and has made its way to being one of the…
- Free iPod Touch Apps; RemoteMouse There are a number of different apps available for the iPod Touch and the iPhone device that allow you to control certain things on your computer using the device. For…
- Smurfs' Village for the iPod Touch Who didn't love watching The Smurfs in the 1980s? And some of us still get that thrill of excitement when we happen to see a rerun on TV and hear…
- Crazy Snowboard for iPod Touch Crazy Snowboard isn't a free app for the iPod Touch, but it does only cost $0.99 and it is a really cool app. The app works like many other snowboard…
- Free iPhone games; Oldschool blocks When it comes to the iPhone, it has quit a lot of processing power for a mobile device but there are also games that don’t really take advantage of this…
- The Best iPhone Accessories Want to make your iPhone even cooler and totally unique? Then you need the best iPhone accessories. There are a ton of accessories for the iPhone whether you want to…
- Jigsaw Jumble Aren't jigsaw puzzles wonderful? They test your skill while you put together, piece by piece, a beautiful picture. But, they aren't really a portable game that you can take around…
- Free iPhone Games; Crouching Panda Crouching Panda is yet another game that is in the top 25 at the moment in the app store in terms of free games. The game offers an online world…
- Top 10 Productivity Apps for the iPad It's great to be able to read e-books on the iPad and watch videos but, what about when you really need to get something done? Whether it's notes for a…
- 7 Great iPhone Apps That Work Well on The iPad Best iPhone Apps. The iPad has just been released, and a lot of people are buying it. The 3G model only just came out, yet Apple already sold millions of…
- Enjoy More Fun and Excitement in your iPod Touch iPod is the latest and most popular gadget in today’s digital age. Almost everyone has an iPod from iPod shuffle, iPod nano, iPod video, or iPod touch. Besides from listening…
- Cluedo iPhone/iPod Touch App Review One of the most well known board games throughout the world is Cluedo. There have been many board games that are well known around the world such as Monopoly and…
- Magic iEightBall Remember when everyone it seemed had the Mattel-manufactured toy, the Magic Eight Ball? Ask the Magic Eight Ball a question, give it a shake, and have all the answers to…
- GodFinger iPhone App Review GodFinger is a fantastic game for the iPhone and iPod Touch where you will actually be in charge of your own world. The game allows you to essentially play god…
- Apple iPad most Searched for Gadget There are so many gadgets on the market today that each of the companies that are producing them are trying to get their products to be the most wanted products…
- Google Goggles Coming Soon for iPhone! iPhone users will soon have reason to hover over their phones for hours at a time, playing with a really cool app. The app is the Google Goggles app that's…
- Cube Runner for the iPod Touch Yay! Another game for the iPod Touch that is not only beautifully simple in design and concept, but also totally addicting and yet another great time waster. This game has…
- Pretty Pet Salon App for iPod Touch When you first download the Pretty Pet Salon app for the iPod Touch, you might think you're just downloading another app for your kids. But once you test it out…
- Sudoku 2 for iPod Touch Everyone loves Sudoku and now you can up the intensity of this game even more with the Sudoku 2 app for the iPod Touch. This game gives you the game…
- 10 Best iPad Games The iPad is awesome, no doubt about it. But it can do much more than just give you your apps and be the coolest e-book reader on the market -…
- Ping Pong for the iPod Touch Sometimes an app is great just because well, it's so much darned fun! And the games that let you use your iPod Touch as the controller definitely fall into some…
