TOKYO – Is your only problem with the iPhone that it isn't shaped enough like a gun? There's a solution at Tokyo Game Show.
In the smartphones and tablets section of the show floor, a company called Wiz showed off AppBlaster, a plastic machine-gun shaped gewgaw that turns your iPhone into a toy gun.
To be released on September 17 in Japan for about $35, the AppBlaster (previously announced for other territories) will work with an iPhone game called Ghost Catcher. It's an augmented-reality shooting game in which you pull one trigger to shoot ghosts that are overlaid onto the world around you, then pull another trigger to capture the ghosts with a heart-shaped beam.
The triggers on the AppBlaster work levers that gently tap different parts of your iPhone's screen when you pull them.
Wiz also produces the AppWheel, AppCopter and AppRacer devices into which your iPhone can be placed to look similarly ridiculous. To be fair, the game demo on the show floor was actually pretty fun.
