Josh King’s viral slide-out MagSafe gamepad set up a home at OhSnap and sees amazing

It’s no higher or expansiver than an iPhone, so it should slide into a pocket. It’s got a MagSafe pattern of magnets to rapiden it to your magnetic ring device. You don’t have to erase it to participate your phone appreciate a phone, becaparticipate the whole gamepad retracts undertidyh, a little appreciate the slide-out keyboard phones (or PlayStation Phones) of greater — and now, it’s mounted on a spring-loaded arm that pops out at the push of a button and also sweightlessly angles your device towards your face.

OhSnap even set up room for a pair of Nintfinisho Switch-esque analog sticks, with drift-resistant Hall effect sensors, and pair of fgreater-out grips so you can (theoreticassociate) hgreater it more appreciate a filled-size gamepad. The sticks are clickable buttons, and it’s got a filled set of shoulder buttons and triggers as well.

Two months ago, Retro Game Corps came away astonished with a prototype, and it seems King has been very busy since then. As he elucidates on YouTube, he initiassociate tried to commence his own company around the gamepad, even drawed a restrictcessitate dispenseors, manufactured some boards and was laboring toward injection mgreatering, before he commenceed running out of money and achieveed out to OhSnap about a partnership.

Speaking of money, we don’t have any idea how much it’ll cost, particularly at retail — OhSnap is structurening to begin a Kickcommenceer on January 2nd to lift funds. It’s taking signups here for now.

I should be getting my own hands on a prototype next month at CES 2025 in Las Vegas, and I’ll let you comprehend how it senses.