Sabec, the studio that turned Nintendo Switch into a scientific calculator, is back at it with another pretty ridiculous app for the console. Spy Alarm creates an invisible beam using the infrared sensor on the proper Joy-Con.
When someone or something triggers the tripwire, an alarm will sound on your Switch and therefore the app will record the time of the incident. Don’t expect Spy Alarm to exchange a typical home security system, though. Your Switch will got to be running the app for it to figure and you cannot play games on the console simultaneously. It obviously won’t send mobile alerts if it detects an intruder either.
The tripwire, meanwhile, features a range of about one meter. The range will extend a touch further when a white or reflective object crosses the beam’s path, but it isn’t as if intruders typically wear hi-vis clothing. The app is additionally limited by the Joy-Con’s battery life.
While Spy Alarm won’t be a practical thanks to protect your home from infiltrators, it’s another example of Sabec fooling around with the Switch hardware to form something more interesting than tons of the shovelware on the Nintendo eShop. Still, it might be useful if you think somebody else in your household is secretly playing games on your Switch after you attend bed. Spy Alarm will hit the eShop on May 27th. just like the Calculator app, it costs $10.