p>About a year after receiving our first taste of Myo, Thalmic Labs has announced that it will be reaching out to the masses by the use of Amazon this quarter. As with its pre-order on the company's website the muscle-sensing, hand-held device will be available for $199. Thalmic Labs already sold over the 50,000 pre-orders with nearly half of them being shipped to buyers. This is a good confirmation of the use cases Thalmic Labs and its partners have shown.
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p>The Myo is an eight-muscle-sensing module that you attach to the broadest part of your forearm. The Myo is able to detect hand movements. These gestures include squeezing, spreading your hands or waving your hands left and right, turning your forearm and even one quick pinch with a second finger (which can be used to turn on or pause your Myo). In addition there's the addition of a gyroscope, an accelerometer and a magnetometer that can detect your arm motion. https://minecraftservers.buzz/ </p>
p>There's no power button on the Myo; it wakes up the moment you touch it and automatically goes back to sleep if you leave it alone for a period of time. A single charge should last between 10 and 14 hours when used regularly, which is impressive.
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p>The communication link relies on Bluetooth LE, and there's an Myo Connect application that feeds the motion input back to whatever device or program you're using to control. In Thalmic Labs' demo room we were able to use the Myo to control the volume and playback of video on a computer, an Orbotix Ollie rolling robot and Race The Sun, an addictive game of obstacle avoidance based on flight. Except for the connectivity issues with the Ollie and the difficult nature of the game's scenario, most of these scenarios were easy for us.
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p>We've seen Myo demos involving PowerPoint?, iTunes, Call Of Duty, Parrot AR.Drone and various smart glasses. Users will be able download app "connectors" from the Myo Market to try out some of these use cases and also to control Spotify, Netflix, Sonos as well as popular games like Minecraft and Saints Row IV.
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p>Thalmic Labs also had some impressive displays just prior to CES. In November, the company unveiled TedCas?' Myo integration, which allows surgeons to manipulate medical images without touching a screen or a pointed device. Haute Technique shared the story of how it was able to allow Armin van Buuren, a Dutch DJ, to use the armband as a control device to control the stage lighting at his shows. With companies betting big on gesture control this year, it will be interesting to see if people behind the gesture cameras can cook up something just as impressive.
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p>Update: The product page on Amazon is now active.
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