MYO Gesture Control Armband: Myo Bracelet

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Gesture controls are clearly the next step toward the futuristic computing interfaces of tomorrow, but in their current state, they’re a bit lacking. We’re not quite at that Minority Report level we’ve been chasing since 2002 – but we’re getting A dramatic Myo Gesture Control Bracelet that operates by detecting motion and muscle contraction was used to control the Glass display with Wearscript. A little less dramatic but equally effective input demonstration was a magnetic ring that controlled the Hot on their heels—or forearms, I should say—is the Myo controller pictured above, an arm bracelet that you wear well above your wrist but below the elbow. Why the weird position? The Myo actually reads the electrical activity in your muscles Velocity’s various programs have given birth to over 100 startups, including Kik, the Pebble watch and Thalmic Labs, creators of the myo bracelet. The Foundry space can house approximately 20 startups in a large, open space with enormous windows. Unlike most other wrist-worn devices, including fitness bracelets such as the Nike Fuelband or the Pebble smart watch, MYO is made to be an input device set to compete against other perceptual computing alternatives. It syncs with your devices to let you Now you can move not just left and right, but also above and below a plane. So far, the myo bracelets will ship at the end of the year for the first 25,000 people who pre-ordered the armbands, with another batch coming in 2014. They cost $149, which is .

With Skylight and Myo, the folks at APX and Thalmic think they have fixed but future iterations of this same setup could be something as simple as a bracelet paired with regular looking glasses and a few shakes of the wrist for input. PointGrab unveiled its camera-based gesture solution PointSwitch at CES in January, which allows you to turn off your lights with gestures, while the Myo armband allows you which communicates with both the bracelet and the objects its connected to. The MYO prototype resembles a clunky bracelet of the type Wilma Flintstone might wear. The final product—the first batch ships out at the end of the year—will resemble a sweatband, Lake says. The prototype is fashioned out of 3-D–printed black Those who payed close attention to Armin may have noticed the usual black bracelets he was sporting on both of his forearms. The device, called the Myo armband, is a revolutionary interactive bracelet designed by Thalmic Labs in Canada that enables Van .