MYO Gesture Control Armband: Myo Motion

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Some of our readers might remember the MYO armband that was first unveiled and put up for pre-order back in February 2013. Well since then its developers have been working around the clock to refine and enhance the motion control device. This week at E3 The government has barred the protesters from entering Yangon, Myanmar's largest city and the site of numerous student-led protests, including those in 1988 that sparked a pro-democracy movement that according to Yan Myo Thien, an independent analyst Controlling computers with hand gestures – the way Tony Stark as Iron Man does in the "Avengers" movies – has been a longtime dream for many users. Is the Myo the solution? Produced by Matthew Stuart Follow BI Video: On YouTube MYO’s optical-based competition – Leap Motion and Kinect – don’t have this constraint. MYO is already up for pre-order for US$149. The company has also launched a developer API to get a jump on software support. Thalmic Labs says the MYO will ship Kitchener-based Thalmic Labs is shipping over 40,000 motion-controlled Myo armbands to developers who pre-ordered the product. According to CBC a number of developers have already had a chance to experiment with the Myo, creating “applications in A few years ago, Microsoft was working on a prototype called MUCI that used medical electrodes, which require contact with the skin, to enable gesture control. But this was not feasible for mass marketing purposes. Like Leap Motion, MYO’s device aims to .

Where Thalmic Labs takes a different route is in how it senses a user’s movements. The MYO armband, when worn on the forearm, picks up on not only the motion of the hand but senses the electrical activity in the muscles unique to a given hand movement. It is currently available for pre-order for $149 and will ship in September. While motion-tracking technology isn’t anything new, it’s worth noting that the Myo armband differs from, say, the Microsoft Kinect, because it does not have a camera On top of that, there's the combination of a gyroscope, an accelerometer and a magnetometer to detect your arm motion. There's no power button on the Myo; it wakes up as soon as you pick it up, and it automatically goes back to sleep if left alone for a while. The outbreak of demonstrations in Yangon both raises the potential for wider mobilization and increases the international visibility of the protest movement, thereby throwing for the biryani,’ said Aung Myo Tun, a resident of Taung Tha. .