The basic idea is intriguing: take a conventional guitar design and replace the fretboard with a rotating pillar. Perhaps even stick a motor in there to rotate it on command. Each of the strings ...

This is hugely desirable for a guitar neck ... less easy to navigate up and down the fretboard, particularly if you have clammy hands, as they can stick to the gloss finish.

Besides its unique look, this controller comes with a five-fret guitar grip attachment that ... Deadzone Mode," which allows even the slightest stick movements to be tracked.