Wristband Tracks Your Muscle Movements For Super-Precise Gesture Controls

Swipe the air to pause. Wave to fly drone. Most gesture-control systems require some kind of external sensors that "see" you, with optical sensors or depth sensors or cameras. They're on the outside, measuring your movements the same way human eyes do. And that's fine, but a new wristband advertises itself as a system that's more internal--it's directly controlled by you. MYO, from Kitchener, Ontario-based startup Thalmic Labs, is a new gesture-control system that works a bit differently from th...