Last year at CES, IK Multimedia unveiled its iRig Stomp as a foot switch controller for wrangling the outfit's Amplitube software for iOS. Here at NAMM though, the company has cast off the wired connection for the Bluetooth-sporting iRig BlueBoard MIDI foot pedal.

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The software upgrade turns up the throttle response to 11 and so, if you bury your foot, the car will take a deep breath and then lunge forward (and a little sideways) on gusts of turbo boost and a blizzard of revs.

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