p>About a year after getting our first taste of Myo, Thalmic Labs has announced that it will be reaching to the masses through using Amazon this quarter. Similar to its pre-order available on the company's website the muscle-sensing, armband for controlling gestures will be available for $199. Thalmic Labs already sold over 50,000 pre-orders, with about half of them shipped to buyers. This is a nice confirmation of the applications Thalmic Labs and its partners have demonstrated.
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p>Gallery: Thalmic Labs' Myo armband at CES 2015. 5 Photos
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p>The Myo is an eight-muscle-sensing module that you can attach to the broadest point of your forearm. It allows the device to detect hand gestures. These gestures include squeezing, spreading your hands or moving your hands left or right, turning your forearm, and even a quick pinch with another finger (which can be used to activate or stop your Myo). Additionally there's the addition of a gyroscope, an accelerometer and a magnetometer to track your arm's movement.
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p>There's no power button on the Myo It wakes up when you pick it up and then instantly goes to sleep if it is left for a while. If used for a long time for a long period of time, a single charge will last between 10 to 14 hours. This is quite impressive.
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p>The communication link is based on Bluetooth LE, and there's a Myo Connect application which feeds the motion information back to whichever device or program you're using to control. At Thalmic Labs' demo room, we got to utilize the Myo to control the volume and playback of video on a PC, and an Orbotix Ollie rolling robot and Race The Sun, an thrilling flight-based obstacle avoidance game. With the exception of connectivity issues with the Ollie, and the challenging nature of the game's scenarios, most of these scenarios were quite easy for us.
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p>We've seen Myo demos involving PowerPoint?, iTunes, Call Of Duty, Parrot AR.Drone and several smart glassess. Users can download app "connectors" from the Myo Market to try out the various use cases, as well as to control Spotify, Netflix, Sonos and other popular games such as Minecraft and Saints Row IV.
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p>Thalmic Labs had impressive displays just prior to CES. https://postheaven.net/crysea88/minecraft-book-recipe-random-block-minecraft-mod-recipe-web-v1 In November, the company unveiled TedCas?' Myo integration, which allows surgeons to manipulate medical images without touching a screen or a pointing device. Haute Technique shared the story of how it was able to allow Armin van Buuren the Dutch DJ using the armband as a control device for the stage lighting during his shows. With major companies betting on gesture control this year, it will be interesting to see if the people behind the cameras for gesture control can come up with something as impressive.
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p>Update: The product page is now active on Amazon.
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