Well known accessory manufacturer Dexim has released a remote controlled monster truck with an iOS twist. This particular monster truck is controlled solely with your iPhone, iPad or iPod touch. The RF controlled monster truck comes with a small transmitter that connects to the 30 pin dock connector on your device. You can then control the truck using two methods. The first is a traditional on screen touch control panel. The second option is where the fun really starts; it uses the inbuilt gyroscope allowing you to tilt a compatible device and the truck responds to the direction of the tilt. The truck is even rechargeable via USB and has three inbuilt preset stations allow you to automatically ZigZag, Spin or Dance your vehicle to music.

The Monster Truck is available to order now for $69 and the companion AppSpeed app is a free download from the App Store. You can check out a video showing the Monster Truck via the link below. It looks like a lot of fun and the price doesn't seem to high either. I could fancy one of these for Christmas!

[Dexim]

This cool piece of video came to us from a email tip from 18 year old Josef Průša. Have some time to spare? Have a old remote control car laying around? Well that's what Josef had and he and his brother took "only one afternoon" to get this up and running!

As for controlling the car, you simply have five buttons. Four of which can be used to drive and the fifth button is used to toggle control via the accelerometer on and off, similar to any of the current racing games in the App Store. Pretty cool trick indeed...

If you want to try and give this a shot be sure to head on over to Josef's blog for the full how to guide, which can be found here (Note, you will need to have a PC around to act as an intermediary between the iPhone and the RC car).

Now I'm off to see if I can find any old R/C cars laying around...

[Thanks to Josef for the tip!]