Mar 11 2009Race Car Controlled With Blackberry Storm
So apparently some guys programmed a Blackberry Storm to control a little toy race car using its accelerometers. Then they posted the video on Youtube. Then McLaren saw the video and contacted them about using the device to control a real race car. And that's what they did (second half of the video). Pretty neat. Sure, not as neat as controlling a race car with your mind, but hey, we'd have to go to the aliens for that technology. Which would probably require a few sacrificial probings. Just saying, I'm friends with them. Ladies? No? Okay, plan B. Effeminate gentlemen?
Thanks to Curtis and Troy, who both know race car is the same spelled forward and backwards. It's palindromic!
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Reader Comments
1. Leonidas - March 11, 2009 2:04 PM
Ahh, sweet memories of ReVolt...
2. Leonidas - March 11, 2009 2:04 PM
And, while we're on the subject, you should never say "FIRST" - especially in bed.
3. paineel - March 11, 2009 2:06 PM
lol if you arent first then you lose the race
because it is a race
and if you dont finish you need to work on your time
its not my fault it takes you forever and a day
side note, i always take care of her first and then me keeps em happy you should try it and then scream first its funnier like that
4. Leonidas - March 11, 2009 2:10 PM
I pray you're speaking about the bedroom, and not ReVolt.
5. paineel - March 11, 2009 2:14 PM
if revolt is a lady then yeah , because i like the ladies if Revolt is a dude well then if he is a hot post op then sure why not no no no i couldnt do it.
wait what if there were no females left and it was you and a ton of Post ops?? would you bang em??? huh what would you do??
dont judge me pervs you know you would bang the geekologie writer you know s/he is post op
6. naas - March 11, 2009 2:17 PM
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7. jared - March 11, 2009 2:17 PM
lol
8. jaredj - March 11, 2009 2:23 PM
............................................................................................................................................................................WOW!
9. Dinosaur Rex - March 11, 2009 2:24 PM
Wat, they won a trip to that racing track just for uploading a video starring a racing car?
Wtf, i'll upload one with naked barbies, just to see if a supermodel agency contacts me.
10. Gordon "Fücking" Shumway - March 11, 2009 2:25 PM
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11. jared - March 11, 2009 2:25 PM
GREAT VIDEO! I just wish i could control my car like that
12. Zoid Elpertclam - March 11, 2009 2:28 PM
Suuuuuuuuuuwwwwwwwweeeeeeeeetttt!
God, I really wanna try it out on a real Panzer. To see if it would work on a
f'uckin' tank. Boom Boom beetchiz!
13. $.02 and a pocket full of FAH-Q - March 11, 2009 2:28 PM
WTF paineel? Lay off the crack...
14. NTF (NOT TH3 F1RST) - March 11, 2009 2:29 PM
Leonidas WTF!!!! (Was The F1rst)
15. jared - March 11, 2009 2:29 PM
just got 2 watch out 4 them panzer shreks zoid :P
16. jared - March 11, 2009 2:41 PM
it would be cooler if they controled a monster truck or a jet or a tank or a boat.itwould be awsome if two people controled corvets and they had a street race that would be sick!
17. John - March 11, 2009 2:53 PM
Dude... that has to be the coolest thing I seen this year!
18. jared - March 11, 2009 2:57 PM
yup its awsome
19. Jake Lymes - March 11, 2009 2:58 PM
PRETTY GREAT
20. jared - March 11, 2009 2:58 PM
yup its great
21. Pew³ - March 11, 2009 3:00 PM
i saw this on Crackberry. I have the Blackberry storm. I'm going to hook this up to my car and drive from the back seat. I really feel like I need to be chauffeured around.
¡ʍəd ʍəd ʍəd
22. E.T. - March 11, 2009 3:06 PM
I vote we sacrifice #'s 1-5
23. jared - March 11, 2009 3:08 PM
sacrifice??
24. JJtoob - March 11, 2009 3:24 PM
If this isn't rad to the power of sick I don't know what is.
25. hunter087 - March 11, 2009 3:41 PM
iPhone can do it better
26. Rob - March 11, 2009 3:42 PM
I could smell the stench of viral marketing as soon as this loaded.
27. E.T. - March 11, 2009 3:45 PM
Sacrificial probings that the aliens will require for the technology of controlling a race car with your mind.
Don't you read the articles?
28. jared - March 11, 2009 3:56 PM
ya but i think they would need more then 2 people
29. :P - March 11, 2009 4:38 PM
@25
"iPhone can do it better"
No, as a matter of fact it can't dumbsh*t. The iPhone's Bluetooth doesn't do data transfer. Some claim to have made it possible by hacking the life out of it, but it was buggy as sh*t and eventually didn't work. They are supposedly "working on it" now but yeah...we'll see.
30. ZenoZTankof - March 11, 2009 6:30 PM
@25
Iphone fanboism Fail
31. n8d - March 11, 2009 6:37 PM
LOL @ #29 & #30.
32. formerly SPELLINGNAZI© - March 11, 2009 11:35 PM
Finally able to see the vid...oh yeah, viral marketing all the way.
And crApple can eat a dick.
33. Yopoleo - March 12, 2009 1:06 AM
@22 Don't forget the virgin.
34. Kingitsu - March 12, 2009 2:34 AM
Hell Yea ReVolt. Panga FTW.
35. Leon - March 12, 2009 3:31 AM
Wow, that is the best thing i have ever seen all year on Geekology "SO SO Cool"
36. Watch - March 12, 2009 10:46 AM
WOW! That's cool! This is like that one scene in the 007 movies where James was sitting in the back seat using a cell phone to steer the car.
SICK TO THE POWER OF BATMAN RIDING AN AT-AT!!!
37. n8d - March 12, 2009 12:21 PM
HEY....
AM I OUT OF THE LOOP?
WHERE IS DAISY?
38. Arda - March 13, 2009 4:53 AM
thought it was really cool too!...until:
http://www.wirelessandmobilenews.com/2009/03/blackberry_storm_controls_race_car_web_surfers_punked_by_viral_video.html
boo :(
39. dave - March 13, 2009 5:07 PM
Fake, when people try tooooo hard and the production is toooo good, then sorry but its fake
40. z4x0r - May 31, 2009 10:03 PM
Sorry it's old, but why is " mcnuuuuuggets!" one of the tags on this article?