{"id":46480,"date":"2013-02-26T11:02:00","date_gmt":"2013-02-27T07:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/?p=46480"},"modified":"2013-02-26T11:02:55","modified_gmt":"2013-02-27T07:02:55","slug":"pre-order-thalmic-labs-myo-armband","status":"publish","type":"magazine","link":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/magazine\/pre-order-thalmic-labs-myo-armband","title":{"rendered":"Y Combinator Backed Thalmic Labs Introduces MYO, the Motion Tracking Armband"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: right; margin: 15px;\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8513\/8367127112_dbd476a07a.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"71\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Last month <a href=\"http:\/\/www.techvibes.com\/blog\/canadian-startup-y-combinator-winter-2013-cohort-2013-01-10\">Techvibes reported<\/a> that Waterloo&#8217;s Thalmic Labs had been selected for startup accelerator Y Combinator&#8217;s winter 2013 cohort.<\/p>\n<p>At that time Thalmic Labs was being very secretive about what they were working on but yesterday they did the big reveal.<\/p>\n<p><!-- pagebreak --><\/p>\n<p>They&#8217;ve come up with a way to do gesture control without a camera.<\/p>\n<p>Thalmic&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/getmyo.com\/\">MYO device<\/a> is a band that fits around a users&rsquo; forearm, and uses a combination of biometrical signals, as well as data from gyroscopes and accelerometers, to track and interpret movement. Different gestures, such as the snapping of a finger or the turning of an invisible knob, produce different electrical signals that MYO can track.<\/p>\n<p>Check it out in action.<\/p>\n<p><object style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" width=\"599\" height=\"337\" data=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/oWu9TFJjHaM?hl=en_US&amp;version=3&amp;rel=0\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/oWu9TFJjHaM?hl=en_US&amp;version=3&amp;rel=0\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<p>The first batch of 25,000 devices will ship in late 2013, and can be <a href=\"https:\/\/getmyo.com\/\">preordered now for $149<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Founded 8 months ago by three uWaterloo mechatronics grads, Thalmic Labs has raised a seed round totaling $1.1 million which includes angel investments from ATI Technologies co-founder Lee Lau, Dayforce co-founder David Ossip, and Rypple co-founder Dan Debow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last month Techvibes reported that Waterloo&#8217;s Thalmic Labs had been selected for startup accelerator Y Combinator&#8217;s winter 2013 cohort. At that time Thalmic Labs was being very secretive about what they were working on but yesterday they did the big reveal. They&#8217;ve come up with a way to do gesture control without a camera. Thalmic&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1358,"featured_media":46482,"menu_order":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"magazine-region":[],"magazine-series":[],"magazine-topic":[],"class_list":["post-46480","magazine","type-magazine","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine\/46480","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/magazine"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/users\/1358"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine\/46480\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/media\/46482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46480"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-region","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine-region?post=46480"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine-series?post=46480"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine-topic?post=46480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}