Nerd Nirvana: Controlling an iPhone With a Magic Mouse [VIDEO]
Let’s be honest here: There’s absolutely no real need to control your iPhone with a mouse. The device is tailored to be used with your fingers, and — thanks to the ingenuity of Apple’s engineers — it works quite well.
However, the iPhone (
) is actually a small computer, and as such, one should be able to control it with peripherals such as a mouse and keyboard. And the nerd/hacker in you simply has to see it.
That moment has arrived. In the video below, you’ll see the BTstack project in action, showing a Magic Mouse and a Celluon CL800BT virtual keyboard happily interacting with a (jailbroken) iPhone. The day is drawing near, my friends, when we’ll be able to control the iPhone with a bunch of peripherals that a). Are at least as big as than the iPhone itself, and b). Make you look like a complete dork.
