T. Scott Saponas has devised a system that uses biometric sensors that pick up your arm’s electrical signals to…(get this) play Guitar Hero. I love the use of awesome technology for trivial pursuits. So does Procrastineering, which reported:
One of my favorite projects this year was a muscle sensing system that (among other things) allows you to play Guitar Hero without a guitar. It directly senses the electrical signals in your arms and maps those to the appropriate button presses. This was done by Scott Saponas, a Phd student at the University of Washington exploring a variety of biometric sensing techniques for input.
Be sure to check out the video of Saponas’s system and let me know what you think (please)!
Maybe then I could hit that pesky orange button.
@Arguello I call it the "no fun" button.
That's genius. The car door was what impressed me.
This could replace the mouse on a PC, be used for automated wheelchairs, all kinds of household applications… there's a long list for what this system is capable of.
there are soooo many applications for this product. i want it. tell me where to sign my life away to get that because it will cost more than i can afford when this is released years from now.
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