Tactile feedback DIY-style for iPhone gaming




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Here's an irony: take a beautiful, modern iPhone touchscreen, add a NES emulator (to play games decades old) and then lament the lack of old-skool buttons to whack away at.  So Gizmodo have got together with the creator of iBrickr to put together a clever little tutorial showing you exactly how to a) install the emulator, and b) create your very own NES control screen-overlay.

 iPhone NES hardware mod

iPhone NES hardware mod

That's right, with a neatly trimmed piece of sticky acetate you can trick your stupid digits into thinking they're battering real buttons (or at least let them know where the controls are without having to look directly at them).

iPhone NES hardware mod 

How long, do you think, before someone starts selling these pre-cut?

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