MYO Gesture Control Armband: Myo Gesture Control Armband

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Previously only available as part of a developer’s kit, the Myo armband is moving into its currently supports five different distinct gestures. Users can use the applications found in Myo Market Beta to control their computers, or they can map Wearable tech’s dynamic duo is here! Thalmic Labs has officially announced the ability to integrate its gesture control armband, Myo, with smartglasses like Google Glass, Epson Moverio BT-200 and Recon Instrument’s upcoming Jet. The combination of At ICRA last year, JPL presented a robotic control system called the BioSleeve, which is a sensor-packed bandage that wraps around your arm and lets you control robots with movements and gestures. It's essentially a gesture recognition system that works One of the hottest areas for tech development in the last few years has been gesture control, which allows users to interact with computers without having to touch any inputs like a keyboard or a mouse. Undoubtedly inspired both by Microsoft Kinect and the But until the device itself gets in the hands of ordinary folks, I think MYO just might steal the Leap’s thunder. MYO is also a gesture-based controller, but instead of using cameras, it senses the electrical activity in your muscles to help detect gestures. Thalmic Labs is a Waterloo-based startup with a very ambitious goal – to change the way we interact with our everyday computing devices. To that end, they’ve developed the Myo armband, a gesture control device that fits around the meaty part of your .

Over the last five years, the touchscreen has supplanted the mouse and keyboard as the primary way that many of us interact with computers. But will multitouch enjoy a 30-year reign like its predecessor? Or will a newcomer swoop in and steal its crown? MYO's gesture control armband promises to let you "unleash your inner Jedi" by offering the ability to wirelessly control your smartphone or computer via gestures. It does this by detecting the electrical activity in your arm muscles as you move and Harnessing muscular activity to provide computer input has many advantages over Kinect-like devices that use cameras or inertial sensors. A new gesture-based wireless input device that works by sensing the electrical signature of forearm contractions is About a year after getting our first taste of the Myo, Thalmic Labs has announced that it's reaching out to the masses by way of Amazon this quarter. As with its pre-order on the company's website, this muscle-sensing gesture control armband will be .