GUI Galaxy

Pinball Magic, from New Potato, is both a G.I. JOE-sized pinball machine cabinet and free iPhone app. The accessory connects via your iPhone’s 30-pin dock connector, and features side flippers, a ball-launching plunger, an animated LED backbox display, and foldable legs. Combined with the iPhone 4′s ultra-sexy display and the pinball app itself, you’ve got yourself a fun little blast from the past right on your desk.

I loves me some iPhone cases … and I loves me some sweet, sweet Mario ass. Stands to reason why the iPhone Game Pad from Australian-based CP Design is such an arousing concept. The case slides over an iPhone, interfaces with the 30 pin connector, and provides the gamepad-type layout we all know and love. All we need now are some iPhone-specific console game ports to rock ‘n roll.

Continuing the trend of iconic realism from earlier in the week, behold the icon battery pack from essential tpe. While it does add an additional 3 hours of talk time to your iPhone, the icon‘s cool factor comes from the EL lighting film on its front panel. The film presents the battery pack’s charge level via Apple’s battery icon display method.

This afternoon at the WWDC, Steve demonstrated the brand-new iPhone 4, which is the awesomest awesome to ever awesome. Some of the key bits of awesome include a stainless steel and glass frame, a front-facing camera for video calling, a 5MP camera that records HD video at 720p, a 960 x 640 Retina Display, and loads of other things to geek out about. Available for pre-order June 15th, shipping June 24th.

Ever wish your iPhone dock could also double as a corded phone facilitator? Who hasn’t, right!? Well today’s your lucky day, Chachi, because here comes Desk Phone Dock. Features include: turning your sleek, portable iPhone into a clunky behemoth, two stereo speakers, speaker phone and handset call, and instant muting.

Yo Nexus One, I’m really happy for you, I’mma let you finish making headlines, but the iPhone is busy SAVING LIVES. Dan Woolley, trapped beneath the Hotel Montana in Port-au-Prince for over 60 hours, used the iPhone app “Pocket First Aid & CPR” from Jive Media to treat his own wounds and stay alive. The above before-and-after Google Earth images reveal how the hotel was reduced to rubble after the massive Haitian earthquake.

With the RedEye system (hardware + app), your iPhone or iPod touch becomes a godlike universal remote for your AV devices. The iPhone communicates with the RedEye hardware via Wi-Fi, which then talks to your home entertainment center over infrared.

The OWLE Bubo is an iPhone camera mount that helps you record stable video with crisper and better color-balanced images. It also allows you to attach standard lenses, mics and lighting. Plus, you’ll look super cool answering a call with all that shit attached to your iPhone!

If you’re a creative designer, you’ve probably had more than a few ideas for a sweet new iPhone app?  Unfortunately, any development skills beyond HTML are pretty much over your head.  VixML claims that with their software, “if you can write a web page, then you can write VixML.”  You won’t be creating anything terribly useful, but it looks like a great tool for building those fun interactive gadgets.  Now you can finally make that interactive glow-stick!

The most current iPhone 3GS units that ship with a new bootrom are still quite able to be jailbroken, apparently. The iPhone Dev-Team reports the only inconvenience that would come into play would be upon device boot; tethering would be required, should you run out of power.

Via Wired.