iPhone News Updated

The sharp-shooter app: The rifle add-on that replaces scope with an iPhone showing detailed zoom and weather conditions

• Inteliscope’s Shooter Tactical Rifle Adapter and app costs around £46 ($69.99)
• Gadget can secure an iPhone or iPod Touch to guns letting shooters peek around corners without moving
• Uses iPhone camera to allow photo and video recording, as well as zooming

An American inventor has created a rifle attachment that replaces the scope of a gun with an iPhone.

When used with the Inteliscope app, shooters can use the iPhone scope to see detailed weather conditions, zoom into targets and peek round corners without moving using the iPhone camera.

The Idaho-based company behind the invention is now taking pre-orders for the device, which costs around £46 ($69.95) and will be shipped in June.

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Rolomotion Aims to Bring Wii-Style Gaming to Apple TV and iPhone

Rolecule’s Rolomotion is designed to convert an iPhone or an iPod touch into a motion controller, similar to a Nintendo Wii Remote. The iPhone motion controller combines with games streamed over AirPlay using the Apple TV, allowing for motion-based gaming directly on a television.

The Rolomotion concept takes advantage of the iPhone’s gyroscope, magnetometer and accelerometer to track movements, which are then translated on the screen.

Motion Tennis, the first game that incorporates Rolomotion, plays similarly to Wii Sports Tennis on the Wii gaming console. The iPhone is used as a tennis racket, and when swung, the character on the screen will swing as well.
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