The iLevel 2 costs about $70 as of this writing, but it earns that price with its easy push-knob adjustment and simple, sturdy design.
In the popular imagination digital filmmaking — animated or live action — is a clean, sterile process, a lot of button pushing and knob tweaking.
Once you have AM, you push the knob and sadly use yet another switch to scan through stations.
Operation couldn't be any simpler: Push the knob to turn the speaker on, and turn it to adjust the volume.
Loosen the grip, push the knob.
I was disappointed to discover that pushing a knob back and forth is nothing like shoving a metal stick along a slot until it clicks into place.
You can use your joystick to raise the wing flaps or open the throttle, but looking out a side window involves pushing a knob, which is certainly not what pilots do in a real plane.
The band is designed to offer a snug and secure fit, threading one end through a hole in the other and pushing the knob through a center hole.
And with all those buttons to push and knobs to turn to administrate the frequential flow it makes it possible for everyone to be in the composing business.
It certainly encourages screenwriters to throw in shamelessly unnecessary and flashy visual motifs to justify itself, like those tacky CNN magic touchscreen walls, which have become the 21st Century equivalent to actors unconvincingly pushing clunky knobs and buttons in cheesy 50's science fiction movies.
For example, why can't you just push the volume knob on the radio to turn it off or on (instead, there's a separate power knob)?
