He handled it like a guitar, strimming up and down, thwock-thwocking to get a beat going then reverting to banjo-style motion, not just for effect but as a new mode of expression.
Newell admits to missing out on trends like mobile, Wii-style motion games and Facebook games.
It's a device with three wheels that works by leaning side-to-side and driving in an "S-style" motion.
Skate-skiing, a faster but harder-to-master skate-style motion that originated in Europe in the 1980s, is growing in popularity across North America, and the Methow has plenty of dedicated followers.
The startup tells me it could envisage various alternative use-cases for the hardware, such as enhanced patient care monitoring or chronic care monitoring, or — tapping up the Wii-style motion sensors inside Amiigo — even gaming scenarios.
These obviously aren't going to be tackling console gaming anytime soon but the new remote has some Wiimote-style motion controls (thanks to a gyroscope and accelerometer) that look to add a new dynamic to iOS gaming.
Using Hollywood-style motion capture technology, it places the users in a virtual environment and pits them against virtual enemies that come from behind walls and under desks—essentially, just like playing Time Crisis but without the annoying pedal system.
The production design is violently ugly: the sweeping CGI scenes of ark embarkation look garish, unconvincing and poorly cobbled together; the landscapes are rendered in an oversaturated, kitsch colour palette; the stop-motion style movement of evolution (yes, they chuck that in) and the Watchers is pretentious and distracting.
At every Lib Dem conference since 2006, the party has passed Orange Book-style motions: on tax, Europe, Trident, nuclear power.
On Tuesday, City turned up at St James' Park and performed like a group of movie-set stunt doubles running through some Manchester City-style motions for lighting and camera angles as a prelude to an actual Manchester City Premier League performance.
We used 80s-style motion-controlled cameras, and what we did have from the 21st century was the pre-imaging.
