The Myo Gesture Control Armband, being developed by Thalmic Labs, is a wearable device that allows you to control the actions of electronic devices (through Bluetooth) with different hand and arm motions. It feels the movements of your muscles and translates that to what it should do. In a video released about the Myo armband by Thalmic Labs, it showed multiple real-life scenarios where this could be used, including someone who is fixing their bike pausing and rewinding a video that tells him how, someone giving a presentation changing the screen with a twist of their hand, a medical personal changing the view of a patient's scan without having to move away, as well as some uses for toys and in video games, just for fun. There was also another video about the Myo technology being used to make a prosthetic arm, something I found pretty cool. It costs about $200 to buy.
I think that in an ideal world, more people and businesses would work together instead of competing against each other, so that we could further our technology more quickly. Also, that anyone in need of a prosthetic limb would be able to get one without financial difficulty—not by some power forcing them to give their money to help him, but by the simple kindness of others. Actually, scratch that, no one would even be in the circumstances that would make them need a prosthetic limb, though people would still help each other in hard times without the use of government intervention.
First Video
Prosthetic Arm
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