The Karate Copycat Challenge game is a kind of Simon Says meets Theremin combo, which makes you repeat impossibly long strings of movements in faultless sequence or perish. It’s all very motion sensing and Jedi training, but we can’t help feeling there’s more to life than waving your hands around like a demented traffic cop at a New Delhi intersection. $39.95.
Four semi-circular rings each have a curved light bar that illuminates according to one of seven possible games. Players must wave a hand into the open space within a certain interval after a light flashes and a musical note plays to score; a motion detector in each space measures a player’s response time to ensure the sequence is followed. Players attempt to repeat an accelerating pattern of lights, keep a song going by waving hands through loops as they illuminate…
