Though the iPad is a very useful productivity tool, it is used even more for leisure activities and as a toy. Playing games is the obvious way of playing with your iPad and millions of people play on their iPad everyday. Did you know however that the iPad is a great remote control for toys? Young at heart people of all ages love to play with their iPad and being able to play with it in different ways is always good! A pretty cool toy is the Parrot AR Drone Aircraft. You have 100 % control of this drone from you iPad through an app and the drone not only let you fly it from the iPad you may take cool photos and video from it as well. It´s quite a pricy toy at about $ 300, but it´s getting more and more popular with the kids.

If you are more into cars you can get a Ferrari Enzo too and it can be controlled by any iOS device not only and iPad. Driving and playing with toys using your iPad as the control is a really great experience.

Toys aren´t the only thing you can control from your iPad or iOS device! It can be a remote for you entire home. Roomie is an app that gives you the possibility to control lightening, temperature, kitchen, bathroom, bedroom, TV, refrigerator etc., actually anything that you can put a sensor on. This really gives possibilities, for everyone to remote almost anything. It is great for disabled people, but others might get a bit passive when everything in your house can be arranged with a touch on your iPad.

Griffin also have a very powerful remote control for your iOS devices that allows you to control as many as 200 000 components, so it´s not likely that you´ll run out of available options soon.

No matter what you´ll like to control from your iPad there´s sure to be an app for it. People want to use their iPads for fun and anything that makes them do cool stuff people loves. The combination of taking pictures while you are flying your aircraft or helicopter may also be used for business purposes. In many situations to get a bird’s view of a building area can be important in order for engineers and architects to make the right decision. What some consider being toys, other might find to be useful tools. So basically there´s no end to what iPad is used for even when it comes to toys and remote control.