We don't know exactly what Electronic Arts, Gameloft and other gaming powerhouses are planning now that Apple has unleashed its iPhone SDK, but a few enterprising folks are giving us an idea of what we *could* be seeing this fall. Tech sites have been drooling over "Raging Thunder," a new, independently made racing game.

More a tech demo than a potentially licensed and sold product, "Raging Thunder" is a traditional arcade racing game - except the car is steered by tilting the iPhone itself. It sounds strange, but, as shown in the video, the controls seem to be intuitive (though we'd have to assume a finished product would use the much easier widescreen mode, not the vertical).

The visuals aren't too shabby, either, which leads us to think that an official version of Need for Speed couldn't look that much different.

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Damon Brown wrote the "Pocket Idiot's Guide to the iPhone" (Alpha/Penguin Books). Available on August 7, you can preorder it at Amazon or your favorite online bookstore. Damon also writes for Playboy, SPIN and The New York Post.