Best of Macworld: GameWheel

February 12, 2010 by Bill Palmer

Editor’s note: Six members of Beatweek’s editorial staff were at Macworld 2010 to report on the newly introduced products for iPhone and iPod users. Here’s one of the twelve best we found. For a full rundown of all the top new products at Macworld 2010, check out Beatweek Magazine’s February 16th issue

iPhone gamers will all tell you the same thing: there are some truly great “gamer’s games” out there for the iPhone, but the device’s shape isn’t exactly ideal for long-term gameplay. We’ve seen various third party solutions ranging from grooved cases to giant enclosures that turn your iPhone into roughly the shape of an Xbox controller, but dreamGEAR may have finally nailed it – at least for racing games – with its GameWheel. 

We’re not sure you’d want to be caught using this in public, but we found it to indeed enhance the racing experience in our on-site tests. What won us over in the end was its $19 price; we had been expecting it to be higher.

Read about all of Beatweek’s “Best of Show at Macworld 2010″ winners and finalists in the February 16th issue of Beatweek Magazine, which will feature a cover story interview with American Idol winner Taylor Hicks and more.