The iPhone has tons of different apps, that can carry out a wide variety of functions, the latest app to hit the app store is called Blower, and it manages to blow air out of the bottom of the iPhone speaker, check out the video of it in action below.
Mercedes Benz has launched a new mobile app that will let you control your shiny new Mercedes with your iPhone or BlackBerry, called mbrace.
The application will let you lock or unlock your car from a distance, as well as find its location on a map on your phone just in case your forget where you have parked it.
There have been a few rumors that the next generation Apple iPhone may contain a built in RFID tag reader, I guess we wont know until next year when apple release a new iPhone.
In the meantime a company called Wireless Dynamics has developed an accessory for the iPhone and iPod touch along with an app that can read RFID tags and near field communications, called the iCarte.
How cool would it be to control your favourite robot toy with finger gestures on your iPhone? Yuta Sugiura and his colleagues at the Keio University have developed a new control system for robots called ‘Walky’ that lets you control various robots with your iPhone.
Walky can be used to make the robot walk, jump, turn and even kick a mini football, check out the video below which shows it in action.
There are many things the iPhone can do with the tons of apps available to download, now scientists at NASA’s Ames Research Center have created an add on for the iPhone that can detect chemicals in the air.
The gadget plugs into the dock connector on the iPhone and it can detect traces of methane, ammonia and chlorine gas in the air.
We have seen quite a few solutions for keeping your iPhone and iPod juiced up, like the Mophie Juice Pack Air, the latest battery pack to hit the market does away with the case, and is designed to provide a small portable solution to adding extra battery power to your iPhone, the PhoneSuit Primo iPhone Micro Battery Pack.
If you have always wanted to turn your iPhone into a picture frame to display your favourite photos, now there is an accessory that will do just that, the Appstand.
iPhone games developers RatSquare have released details of their latest game that is coming to the iPhone, Speed Forge Extreme, and from the video below, it looks amazing.
Speed Forge Extreme uses OpenlGL ES 2.0 support on the iPhone 3GS, which enable full screen motion blur effects in the game, check out the video of it in action below.
Yesterday the Apple iPhone became available on UK mobile phone network Orange, and it looks like Orange had a good day as they sold more than 30,000 iPhones.
According to Orange, the 30,000 sales of the iPhone is a new UK record for first day sales of a mobile device, and considering that the iPhone has been available in the UK on O2 for some time, Orange must be pretty happy with the launch.
Caze has added a new iPhone case to their range which they are calling the ‘worlds thinnest’ transparent case for the iPhone 3G and 3GS, the Caze Zero 5 iPhone Case.
The Caze Zero 5 iPhone Case measures just 0.5mm thick, and is made of clear plastic, and is designed to be ‘almost unnoticeable’ when it is on your iPhone.
Some of our readers will remember the Commodore 64 iPhone emulator App that Apple pulled from their App store back in September, because users were able to enable basic on the application through a simple hack.
The good news is that the Commodore 64 emulator iPhone App is now back in the iPhone App store, and it has had a few changed made to it.
As of today, O2 is no longer the only mobile phone network in the UK selling the Apple iPhone as it is now available with Orange as well, and in a bid to keep their iPhone customers O2 or offering a range of free services and deals.
O2 have dropped the price of their iPhone Tethering data bundle to £9.79 a month, that gets you 3GB of tethered data per month, and if you sign up to the deal before the 31st of December, O2 will give you their O2 basic Home Broadband package for free.
