Lewis Hamilton controls F1 car with a cellphone
Posted by Simpur | Posted in Concepts, News, Others, Toys | Posted on Thursday, March 12, 2009
Remote-controlled cars are cool to play around with, but only F1 World Champion Lewis Hamilton will ever get the chance to control a $4 million McLaren F1 racing car with a mobile phone!
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Here's how the story goes - Two developers created an application on their BlackBerry Storm that could remotely-control their toy F1 car by simply tilting and moving the phone from side to side.
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After posting a video of them playing around with it on Youtube, they surprisingly received a comment from the McLaren team who then went on to develop a similar application that could control an actual, real-life F1 car.
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You really need to watch the video to see just how cool this really is..
Spoiler: Too bad the video is actually just part of a new viral advertising campaign from McLaren's title sponsor Vodafone, but nonetheless, the whole idea is just so cool!
Articles: DVICE, ITV Sport
![](http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_kV7tW6b7CkM/SbiHF6IzIQI/AAAAAAAAELs/7XX29a7t3t8/s400/rc3.jpg)
Here's how the story goes - Two developers created an application on their BlackBerry Storm that could remotely-control their toy F1 car by simply tilting and moving the phone from side to side.
![](http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_kV7tW6b7CkM/SbiHWWykhzI/AAAAAAAAEL8/oILMJO9nGlQ/s400/rc2.jpg)
After posting a video of them playing around with it on Youtube, they surprisingly received a comment from the McLaren team who then went on to develop a similar application that could control an actual, real-life F1 car.
![](http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_kV7tW6b7CkM/SbiHO-yLpDI/AAAAAAAAEL0/5lzFKxEW5LU/s400/rc1.jpg)
You really need to watch the video to see just how cool this really is..
Spoiler: Too bad the video is actually just part of a new viral advertising campaign from McLaren's title sponsor Vodafone, but nonetheless, the whole idea is just so cool!
Articles: DVICE, ITV Sport
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