Life & fun · February 13, 2012
Turn iPhone into Toy for Long-Distance Lovers
App Turns Smartphone Into Remote-Control Toy for Long-Distance Lovers
Turn iPhone into Toy for Long-Distance Lovers launched on February 13, 2012 with 13 votes, #98 of 360 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 14 years on.
In plain words
This app allows long-distance couples to remotely control vibration on each other's iPhones. Created by Justin Wilcox, a former Microsoft developer, the app lets one partner send vibrations to the other's phone. The concept was inspired by Wilcox's earlier experimentation with force feedback technology. The app is designed for couples maintaining intimate connections across distances.
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From the sources
The app 's proposed solution: a feature that allows Rob to control the vibration function on Sara's phone. Justin Wilcox, who wrote the code, says the idea was partially inspired by an Xbox hack he created when he worked for Microsoft. He took the force feedback motor that makes the controller shake when, say, a car rams into a wall at full-speed. Instead, for adult purposes, he made the Xbox controller motor respond to music. Microsoft's patent office, not surprisingly, denied his request to take that product to market. But the idea of a remote-controlled adult toy resurfaced when Wilcox started a long-distance relationship. In addition to controlling the phone's movement from far away,…from mashable.com
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