Motion sensitive remote control cars with Nokia N95

Sheath the Lightsabre, tell Activity Monitor to take a walk.  The real future of phone-waggling applications is here – a motion sensitive controller for a radio controlled car.

ShakerRacer claims to make use of the natural instinct to ‘lean into the turn’ that you get when you play a driving game or use an RC car.  In practice it looks like playing one of the several driving/skating games available for the Nintendo Wii – you use the phone as if it were the steering wheel and tilt it in the direction you want to go.

Ok, its not an actual product that you can buy or even download (yet) and you do need a specially-modded car with a Bluetooth adaptor attached to the RC unit but just watch the video below and then say that it doesn’t look like great fun.

Seriously, Nokia are missing a trick if they don’t bring out their own range of branded cars…

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EMjAYdF13cU[/youtube]

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