The iPhone and iPod Touch come equipped with a sensor called the Accelerometer which senses when the device itself is being moved. This is what allows it to switch from a portrait view to a landscape view automatically when you simply turn the phone sideways. Free Art & Technology (F.A.T.) have created an iPhone App that taps into this sensor to allow the iPhone to simulate a vinyl record player. The idea is that you load in a virtual record and then physically spin your phone on a table or flat surface. The speed with which your phone spins determines the speed of it's virtual turntable and the speed the record plays at. As the phone's spinning winds down, the music itself winds down, distorting the same as it would on a record player. I would love to see this become an official App offered through the iTunes store, but the trick will be finding a way to offer virtual records to play. If they can get away with using the iPhone/iPod Touch's own music library, that would be fun. The song featured in the clip below is Full Clip by Gang Star.