Where is your Guitar

Microsoft team members like Scott Samponas, have been working on a project that may change completely what we know as controls.

The Microsoft research team has been developing a new “muscle-computer interface” which will allow the user to interact with different applications, only by moving their muscles.

How does this work? Well, researchers aided with special imaging devices have been gathering information of the muscles used by a person when performing certain tasks. For example, one application these researchers found was guitar hero. They were able to control what you normally do with the guitar; they controlled it only pressing their fingers against each other, as if they had their guitar…an invisible guitar.

This is only one example of the immense uses this new muscle user interface can bring to technology, but as another example is when you have your hands busy carrying some bags and boxes, opening your car trunk would be as easy as pressing your index finger with your middle finger.

Here is the link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_7BzUED39A&feature=player_embedded

Ignacio Morales