{"id":4081,"date":"2010-01-03T20:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-03T20:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/microsoft-emg-research-would-let-users-strong-arm-gadgets-into-submission-science\/"},"modified":"2010-01-03T20:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-01-03T20:00:00","slug":"microsoft-emg-research-would-let-users-strong-arm-gadgets-into-submission-science","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/futurist\/microsoft-emg-research-would-let-users-strong-arm-gadgets-into-submission-science.php","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft EMG Research Would Let Users Strong-Arm Gadgets Into Submission [Science]"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mind control<\/a> is one way to control tomorrow's gadgets. Here's another equally cool, equally complex way: Controllers that involve nothing but the electrical impulses taking place everyday in our muscle tissue.<\/p>

The system, developed as part of a patent filed by Microsoft, uses a series of connectors attached to an armband. The armband leverages Electromyography (EMG). As you can see in the video, this creates a system that translates the electrical activity found in our muscles into instructions for a computer. Or a Guitar Hero air guitar.<\/p>

The system in the video is shown as a forearm version, but further patent reading reveals a completely wearable network of sensors that would adorn a user's head, arms and legs.<\/p>

So air guitar and auto-trunks are only the beginning, although we'd need to be extraordinarily aware of our gestures and arm movements should a system become more mainstream, don't you think? I'd hate to flip a guy off on the highway and have my driver's side door pop open. [Muscle Computer Interfaces<\/a> via Engadget<\/a>]<\/p>

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