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9:38 am Wed
Aug 25, 2010
Best Buy is selling a fun-looking little gadget that turns an iPhone or iPod Touch into a pinball machine. It would be neat to have one for the iPad.
This Pinball Magic [App]cessory includes a miniature pinball machine and a free application for realistic pinball gaming action, compatible with select Apple iPhone and iPod touch models. The LED lights light up during multiball play.
New Potato - Pinball Magic [App]cessory for Apple (Via TUAW)
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I’m guessing they saw thinkgeek’s joke and realized people would actually buy it.
http://www.thinkgeek.com/stuff/41/iCade.shtml
I bought an iPad because I thought the iCade was real. D’oh!
Look like someone may be developing it now:
http://www.ipad.net/ipad-news-april-fools-becomes-july-prototype.html
The commercially limiting factor is that you’d need to jailbreak your iPad to load the Mame emulator.
If you tilt the “machine”, does your antenna short out?
Now the next is to make ipad version of a Visual pinball machine
Forget the iPad version of this. I’m considering investing in a full-sized pinball machine that doubles a useless computer. The pinball machine will also not have a usable keyboard, camera or HD.