When not being pushed around by your iPhone, this RC monster truck will dance for your entertainment. Photo Dexim
“Enjoy three hundred and sixty degrees of excitement, right from your hand.”
That’s the promise of the AppSpeed Monster Truck, which — apparently unlike any other RC vehicle — is controlled by a handheld remote. In this case, the remote is an iPhone running the free AppSpeed app. Plug the RF dongle into the dock connector and you can steer using any iOS device using the rather hideous interface on the app, which consists of go and left/right buttons.
Better, you can ignore the eye-insulting app altogether and steer by tilting your iDevice, whereupon your over-compensated flailings will be transmitted to the truck.
The truck itself is regular RC-toy fare: a little cab atop giant wheels, and with a quick charger box with which to inject electricity from 3 AA batteries.
There is also a multiplayer mode that gives users “the option to race their RC vehicles with friends.” This wonderful feature has only previously been possible by using one’s eyes to look at RC cars to see who won. One genuinely new (but questionably useful) feature is a mode which lets makes the truck “zigzag, spin or dance” to music. Sigh.
The truck kit is available now, for a reasonably Christmas-gift-friendly $70.
AppSpeed Monster Truck product page [Dexim. Thanks, Alyshia!]
See Also:
- Control Griffin's Model Helicopter With Your iPhone
- Remote-Control Helicopter Driven by iPhone
- Remote Control Your Car With Your iPhone
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