Apple is going into the mobile gaming business – big time! Apple's patent provides us with a first view of their exciting new gaming accessories that are now in development. Some units are dedicated while others include a unique receptacle system so that your iPod could be inserted to play games with a game pad that even has controls on the reverse side to control your characters jumping and maneuvering. Some units will have a Wii like motion sensing capability while others will wirelessly connect to your home theater or HDTV.
The patent shows several physical devices, which act as cases for portable electronic devices (i.e. iPhones). They have physical buttons and D-pads, as well as vibration and camera functions.
There's even one design that looks just like a DS, with the iPhone acting as one of two screens.
It's intriguing stuff, although it's already caused a rumpus. The firm behind the iControlPad accessory blogged last Friday that "We were very surprised to see that Apple have allegedly filed a patent for our original iControlPad design some 6 months after we revealed it".
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