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Got an iPad? Like games and wish you could use a real joystick to play games instead of a virtual touch screen controller? I have a potential solution for you. It’s the JOYSTICK-IT from ThinkGeek. It’s a small stick on joystick that has been designed to work with any device that features a capacitive touchscreen. Let’s take a closer look.
The JOYSTICK-IT is made of solid milled-aluminum with a laser etched crosshair design on top. It is a little less than 2 inches tall, with a 1.25 inch diameter base.
Attached to the base is a spongy pad with a small suction cup in the center. The pad is made of conductive material so that when it makes contact with the capacitive display, the iPad will think you’ve touched it with your finger. In a way, the JOYSTICK-IT is like a large capacitive stylus.
The JOYSTICK-IT is designed to work with games that feature a virtual on-screen control pad of some kind. If the game uses swiping or multi-touch gestures, the JOYSTICK-IT will not be able to control it.
To use the JOYSTICK-IT, you just stick it directly over the on-screen controller and press down to activate the suction cup. At that point, you can play the name as you normally would, only now with a real joystick.
While touchscreen tablets such as the iPad have proven themselves to be extremely popular gaming devices, games that require a directional input suffer from difficult to use and easy to lose track of onscreen touch control pads. The JOYSTICK-IT iPad Arcade Stick is a simple accessory that solves this problem by sticking over the top of the onscreen control pad to provide a physical joystick when needed.
Featuring solid milled-aluminum construction, the JOYSTICK-IT from ThinkGeek doesn’t require any wires or batteries. The device itself has no moving parts with a spherical surface on the bottom of the device allowing the joystick to be rolled around which causes the outer edge of the base to contact the screen and register input on any capacitive touchscreen. Although the JOYSTICK-IT sticks to the screen, it is easily removable and repositionable.
Although ThinkGeek says the JOYSTICK-IT will work with any device with a capacitive touchscreen, its size will make it less than ideal for mobile phones, but it looks just the thing for adding some extra precision to tablet-based gaming.
