Chop­per 2

Scrab­ble

In this arti­cle I spec­u­lated that the iPad might be a gam­ing con­sole in dis­guise. It wasn’t imme­di­ately clear to me that this was true on launch day, but slowly the games have been emerg­ing. The impor­tant point, you can use the iPhone and iPod Touch as a con­troller. The only ques­tion remain­ing is whether there will be a way to out­put the dis­play from the iPad to an HDTV.

The obvi­ous down­side to this is cost, but since you’re going to have an iPod Touch or iPhone any­ways (at least if you’re one of my friends), this is just an added use. The advan­tage to this kind of sys­tem is that it’s mod­u­lar, and you’re already car­ry­ing the con­troller around in your pocket.

UPDATE: Here it is. The iPad con­nected to an HDTV while simul­ta­ne­ously being con­trolled by an iPhone. All of a sud­den Apple is in the con­sole business.

Chop­per 2 for iPad on HDTV