You place one of your Joy-Cons on a flat, stable surface and point it “towards the area you want to protect.” If someone breaks the invisible beam emitted by the Joy-Con, the app will sound an ...

Your Joy-Con can be used to keep intruders at bay, with a new Spy Alarm app from Nintendo. The app will be released on May 27.

Spy Alarm The Spy Alarm app for the Nintendo Switch will set you back $2 (at the time of writing) and uses the infrared beams emitted by the right-hand Joy-Con on your Switch as invisible tripwires.

Fortunately, app developer DeepBlue Labs has come up with a way to turn your Android phone into a makeshift Nintendo Joy-Con or Switch Pro Controller, complete with motion controls using the phone ...

Tap it, and your Android will begin to pair with the Joy-Con automatically. If connecting both Joy-Con, repeat this process again for the second. Open up your smartphone's camera.

But, it does sound like a clever little app that could keep spy-loving kids entertained for a while. Spy Alarm, from publisher Sabec, uses the infrared sensor on the right Joy-Con to create an ...

But it turns out that’s not all the Joy-Con system is good for. You can also use the controllers with Mac, Windows, or Android devices.

The gamepad has all the requisite controls -- left and right thumbsticks, D-pad and Xbox-like ABXY buttons, right and left buttons and triggers -- but they're arranged in a nonstandard way, with ...

Nintendo confirms the Nintendo Switch 2 Joy-Con controllers have been 'designed from the ground up' and I couldn't be happier Nintendo's new app gave us another look at the Switch 2, and there's ...