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Muscle-sensing Myo Gesture Armband will be Available on Amazon this Quarter

About a year after receiving our first taste of the Myo, Thalmic Labs has announced that it's reaching out to the masses by the use of Amazon this quarter. As with its pre-order on the company's website, this muscle-sensing gesture control armband will retail for $199. Thalmic Labs already sold over 50k pre-orders, with around half of them being shipped to buyers. This is a nice endorsement of some of the use cases Thalmic Labs and its partners have demonstrated.



Gallery: Thalmic Labs Myo armband at CES 2015



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The Myo is an eight-muscle-sensing module that can be affixed to the broadest part of your forearm. The Myo is able to detect hand movements. These gestures include squeezing, spreading your hands or moving your hands left or right, rotating your forearm, or one quick pinch with a second finger (which can be used to activate or stop your Myo). A gyroscope, accelerometer, and magnetometer are available to determine arm movement.



There's no power button on the Myo It wakes up the moment you take it out of your pocket and will automatically go back to sleep if you leave it alone for a long time. A single charge should last between 10 and 14 hours if you use it constantly, which is impressive.



The communication link relies on Bluetooth LE, and there's a Myo Connect application that feeds the motion input back to whichever program or device you're controlling. Thalmic Labs demo room featured the Myo to control video playback as well as volume and race the sun, a thrilling game that focuses on flight-based obstacle avoidance, and an Orbotix Ollie rolling robot. Apart from the connectivity issues with the Ollie and the difficult nature of the game's scenarios, most of these scenarios were quite easy for us.



We've seen Myo demos that included PowerPoint, iTunes and Call Of Duty. Users will be able download app "connectors" from the Myo Market to try out some of these applications and also to control Spotify, Netflix, Sonos as well as popular games like Minecraft and Saints Row IV.



Thalmic Labs had impressive displays just before CES. In November, the company unveiled TedCas' Myo integration, which allows surgeons to manipulate medical images without touching a monitor or a pointing device. Haute Technique shared the story of how it was able to allow Armin van Buuren who is a Dutch DJ, to use the armband as a control device to control the stage lighting at his shows. With many companies betting big on gesture control this year, it'll be interesting to see if the people behind the cameras for gesture control can cook up something just as impressive.



Update The product page is now live on Amazon.

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