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Muscle-Bound Computer Interface

Forearm electrodes could enable new forms of hands-free computer interaction.

The new muscle-sensing project is "going after healthy consumers who want richer input modalities," says Desney Tan, a researcher at Microsoft. As a result, he and his colleagues had to come up with a system that was inexpensive and unobtrusive and that reliably sensed a range of gestures.

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Muscle-Computer Interfaces Muscle-computer interfaces directly sense and decode human muscular activity rather than relying on physical actuation or perceptible user actions. Using a wireless EMG armband, we have shown relatively high accuracies decoding simple finger gestures both when the arm is rested on a surface, but also when the gestures are performed in free space. More info...

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Geeks play Guitar Hero without guitars

The muscle computer interface does away with all that unnecessary button bashing