Thalmic Labs (YC W13) Raises $14.5M

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I am also a pre-orderer but I believe that the MYO guys have a very interesting take on gestures and gesture control. There is still a long way for the product to become mainstream and the fact that the new Kinect has a camera that can do everything the MYO does without an armband on your hand will definitely make the competition very interesting.

Agreed. I preordered one the day they announced it on HN, but they've been awfully silent since. After watching the Xbox announcement, the new kinect definitely seems more usable and interesting.

The primary appeal of the Myo, in my opinion, is the fact that you don't need to be within a 20 ft, perfectly unobstructed, line of sight vision cone of any sensors. You just put it on your arm and start using it anywhere.

MYO is one of those products that, if executed right, can be the harbinger of a new age of computing. Neuro is still at least a few years away, voice is dorky, vision is flaky.

Now if only they had come up with a cooler name than MYO!

'Band'.

As a pre-orderer of the MYO, I am happy to hear that some reputable people think the product worthwhile.

"Myo" is actually a fairly common prefix in biology, and (I think) is roughly equivalent to "muscle".

You are correct. Myosins are proteins used in muscle movement. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myosin

Wish I could have been in on this :) This is the perfect interface for wearables like Google Glass.

Really excited to see where they take this product. Congrats to the Thalmic team!

Congratulations!

There's a race on now — who will ship pre-orders first, Myo or Leap Motion?

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