Break Your Neck! Air Guitar Neck, That Is...

No, I'm definitely not into the Air Guitar, Guitar Hero, Rock Band and any other similar stuff that may come into the future. And no one can convince me to say an "oh, how cool is the way you're airguitarring! You're the man, man!"; no, never, whatsoever, simply because I have been playing guitar in rock bands for so many years now and I know what really working your hand and head out means.


I really can't sit, watch and enjoy the frenzy of the Air Guitar madness, especially as each week brings a new controller with sillier commands for lazier and more ridiculous people.

It's the case of this day, whose morning brought on my screen the new controller from Takara Tomy, an Air Guitar Pro. I really can't understand how anyone could call such a silly piece of ridicule-technology a "pro"; pro-what? Professional ridiculous, professionally silly, professionally dumb geeks that are rockstar-wannabes?

The Pro is a guitar neck with some buttons on it: seven for the notes/chords and some other four on the upper back of the neck that will control the type of the chord (major, minor, augmented or diminished). The rest of the guitar has disappeared and was replaced by air (it's an Air Guitar after all, isn't it?).

This air is the place where you (convulsively yet incoherently) move your hand and mock the playing: the built in infrared sensor detects the hand movements and translates the data in something that sometimes can resemble to music. Well, it looks like the silliness race is growing faster and faster and reaches a truly pro level indeed. I can hardly wait for the Air Vocalist, the even-more-geeky game where you pretend to sing and you'll still sound like Pavarotti or Dio.

The pro neck will drain around $22 from your pocket; you go buy this crap - I'll spend my $22 on a couple of sets of good guitar strings.

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