About a year after getting our first taste of the Myo, Thalmic Labs has announced that it's reaching out to the masses by way of Amazon this quarter. As with its pre-order on the company's website, ...

Designing wearable devices can be as much about dealing with packaging issues as it is about leveraging cutting-edge silicon, sensors, and developing “secret sauce” software. Such was the case with ...

Yet another motion controller, called MYO, has entered the fray, this time letting you wear the technology on your forearm. Unlike Kinect and Leap Motion, which sit near the computer screen and track ...

Over the last five years, the touchscreen has supplanted the mouse and keyboard as the primary way that many of us interact with computers. But will multitouch enjoy a 30-year reign like its ...

Controlling Call of Duty or flying a drone isn't all the Myo armband can do. Researchers at Johns Hopkins University are employing the muscle-sensing wearable for a different application: prosthetics.

The Myo doesn't look like much: a slender black armband just below the elbow. But the intriguing inaugural product from Canadian startup Thalmic Labs stands to create a whole new way of interacting ...

The promise of virtual reality is true immersion—the idea that we'll be able to step into a whole new digital world and feel like it's actually real. This simply can't be realized if we're holding a ...

Turning thoughts into action only takes a simple armband. Johnny Matheny’s left hand is controlled like yours and mine–by thinking about it. Except Matheny’s left forearm is prosthetic, and the ...

Gesture-based games and controls like those in the Kinect hold a lot of promise, but the complex camera setup isn't always practical. A new device called Myo, however, removes the camera from the ...