‘Engineering student Stephen Lake, 23, and his 15-employee startup, Thalmic Labs, has since developed a plastic armband called Myo (Greek for “muscleâ€) that allows wearers to control electronic devices with gestures without holding a gadget. The band detects electrical impulses traveling from the brain to hand and arm muscles. Software translates these signals in a way that a PC, tablet, or remote-controlled helicopter can interpret. (Thalmic is awaiting patent approvals.) “We already use our hands for everything,†Lake says, after demonstrating how Myo can replace a keyboard and mouse…While Thalmic hasn’t yet released apps for Myo, it has presold more than 25,000 of the armbands on its website at $149 a pop and raised over $1 million from angel investors and Canadian government and university grants.’
No product on the market, yet he has all this going for him. Do you respect this young innovator’s techno-business-gangsta yet? What if I told you that the Businessweek writeup has the market for this gadget at about a half BILLION dollars??!! Yeah, who do you know who had it going like this at 23?
– @ojones1
READ THE FULL BUSINESSWEEK ARTICLE HERE.
April 15, 2013
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