Thalmic Labs has announced a $149 armband known as MYO that detects motion and muscle actions to allow keep watch over of a Mac, computer, or different software the usage of gestures (via the following internet).
The demo video shows any person scrolling through waving two fingers in the air (mimicking the usual OS X trackpad gesture), snapping fingers to start iTunes playing, rotating a fist to increase the amount, holding up a hand in a ‘cease’ motion to pause a video, gesturing backwards to rewind a video and snapping fingers to play the video. The demo additionally illustrates a variety of other makes use of for the software, from handing over a presentation to controlling a remotely-operated vehicle.
in contrast to Microsoft Kinect, no camera is required, but the armband approach method it is going to work only with gestures made with one hand moderately than detecting complete-body actions.
Very cool and bold. i hope this finds its method into our future quickly – Steve Wozniak
MYO, which connects by way of Bluetooth, claims to see of the box with Mac and home windows machines with APIs promised for iOS and Android developers.
The MYO is on hand to pre-order with restricted portions to be had for a late 2013 launch.
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