iThrown

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.

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