Turn your iphone into a light saber

By John Freeman on July 25, 2008

Warning: video above includes swearing…

If there was ever a reason to buy an iphone, surely the PhoneSaber app is it, now available free from the Apple “App Store”.

This fun little app fires up a virtual lightsaber that uses the iPhone accelerometer to crackle and fizz as you swish your phone around.

For Star Wars fans this is possibly the greatest technological event of the year… and with tongue in cheek, the sugust techie organ ITPro has declared “this alone proves that the iPhone is an elegant device for a civilized age, rather than the crude mobiles that most people have by their sides.”

Apart from the demo above, here’s a video I found on flickr of another Star Wars fan enjoying their find — part of a continuing series, apparently.

Alternatively, how about a much more useful application: iBeer. Sadly, virtual…

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John Freeman

John is the founder of downthetubes, launched in 1998. He is a comics and magazine editor, writer, and Press Officer for the Lakes International Comic Art Festival. He also runs Crucible Comic Press.

Working in British comics publishing since the 1980s, his credits include editor of titles such as Doctor Who Magazine and Overkill for Marvel UK, Babylon 5 Magazine, Star Trek Magazine, and its successor, Star Trek Explorer, and more. He also edited the comics anthology STRIP Magazine and edited several audio comics for ROK Comics; and has edited several comic collections and graphic novels, including volumes of “Charley’s War” and “Dan Dare”, and Hancock: The Lad Himself, by Stephen Walsh and Keith Page.

He’s the writer of comics such as Pilgrim: Secrets and Lies for B7 Comics; “Crucible”, a creator-owned project with 2000AD artist Smuzz; and “Death Duty” and “Skow Dogs”, with Dave Hailwood.