iThrown
by Eric March on November 2, 2008 at 2:03 pm
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App Name: iThrown
Developer: Magnatron
Category: Entertainment
There has been a disturbing rash of “physical” games or toys released to the App Store lately — games that require you to actually swing your iPhone around to accomplish various things. Mostly they’ve all been okay so long as proper safety measures are observed. But then there’s iThrown.
iThrown requires you to physically, and with as much strength as you can muster, hurl your iPhone as far as you can. You aren’t supposed to let it leave your hand of course, but you have to go through the same motions all the same. It will then use some mathematical formula which may or may not be based on real ballistic calculations to calculate how far you’ve “thrown” your device.
Do I really need to explain how mind-numbingly idiotic this is? How potentially disasterous this could be? I’m going to go out on a (short) limb here and bet that there will be at least one smashed iPhone directly resulting from this app — which of course offers up the potential for a juicy lawsuit.
Sorry, Magnatron. Your first release is now the 9th entry into the Hall of FAIL on principle alone. Contratulations! You win a special edition FAIL tag!
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Hi Eric,
I’m excited to have our first release receive a special tag!
Our evil plan is to start selling a iPhone wrist-band pouch next :-)
Next there will be a version in which you can compete with everybody else in the world to see who the boldest (most idiotic as you put it) iPhoner really is, winner will receve tickets to the world championship cell phone throwing in Finland :-)
They’re all disastrous idots over there, so…
Hey — now a wrist lanyard I could get behind. I don’t even think I’ve seen such a case/lanyard combo available for the iPhone. I still wouldn’t play iThrown, but at least I’d feel a bit better about playing iBowl. Y’know, if this could have been sold on CD-ROM with such a bit of hardware I probably wouldn’t have failed it.
However, I did, because you absolutely know that some idiot is going to have too loose a grip or too strong a snap and their poor iPhone is going to take out a window, a curio cabinet, a TV, a family member — not to mention itself in the carnage.
I always say, morons wouldn’t be so obvious if they weren’t given the tools to show it off.
Waaaaait. Now I see your real plan. Niiiice.
Pity though. I’ve always wanted to see Helsinki…
(By the way, thanks for dropping by. I always like seeing developers drop in — even ones bent on destroying the world’s iPhone supply. :))