Myo Action Augmentation Tech Forces Your Muscles to React More Quickly
Have you ever played one of those games in an arcade where a ring of lights illuminate in sequence and you have to press the button at the exact moment the target light brightens? Like all arcade games, those cheat a little. But even without the cheat, the task is difficult because it takes a fraction of a second for you to twitch your finger. Developed by researchers at the University of Chicago's Human Computer Integration Lab, Myo Action is augmentation technology that reduces that time between thinking and moving.
There is nothing controversial or mysterious about the delay between intention and physical muscle movement. That is a very well-understood symptom of physiology — your brain has to tell your muscle to move and that takes time.
There also isn’t anything controversial or mysterious about EMS (electrical muscle stimulation), in which an electric current passes through a muscle to...
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