![]() To the laymen, it’s a glorified volume knob. It came out in 2001, initially begging the question, “What the hell is this for?” A beautiful, rounded chunk of polished aluminum with a blue light on the bottom yearning for a Miami Beach DJ booth. The PowerMate ($30) has somehow managed to fly under my radar for quite some time. Luckily, there is a pretty great (and relatively inexpensive) wired version available now. ![]() This year, at CES 2014, Griffin announced an updated version of their PowerMate - an all-purpose, aluminum knob that will be wireless and wonderful and not out for a few more months. It’s no secret that I have an unquenchable, near fetish-like lust for buttons and sliders or anything really that makes image processing akin to playing some freaky, incongruous musical instrument one might find in the Mos Eisley Cantina.
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