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"Jon Kuniholm playing guitar hero at Duke using skin surface EMG electrodes hooked up to the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab Virtual Integration Environment, configured by Bob Armiger and Jacob Vogelstein at APL. This setup used traditional strumming with fretting completed solely by Jon using residual muscles in his arm. The skin surface muscle electrical signals are collected by a DAQ board, processed in a Matlab/Simulink XPC environment using pattern recognition developed at the University of New Brunswick in Canada. The research is sponsored by DARPA and is part of the Revolutionizing Prosthetics 2009 program. We hope that this software will be available as open source by next year, and can help get this technology used usefully for prosthetic control. Check out openprosthetics.org to see our ideas for how using technology like this for video games might help transform prosthetics."

pretty badass

10/13/2008 7:31:44 PM

i won't take it seriously until he can play on hard

10/13/2008 7:34:52 PM

That guy fucking sucks at guitar hero.

10/13/2008 8:11:13 PM

that dude sucks

10/13/2008 8:22:27 PM

^,^^,^^^

10/13/2008 8:23:41 PM

i wasnt impressed, Im glad they wasted their money on that

10/13/2008 8:33:45 PM

^,^^,^^^,^^^^,^^^^^

10/13/2008 8:39:50 PM

are "^^" spelled karats or carrots?

10/13/2008 8:41:09 PM

carets

10/13/2008 8:41:47 PM

^ no seriously

10/13/2008 8:42:06 PM

carets, seriously

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caret

[Edited on October 13, 2008 at 8:48 PM. Reason : link]

10/13/2008 8:48:14 PM

i guess thats cool but i wouldn't cut off my arm for guitar hero

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10/13/2008 8:51:14 PM

you don't have to, the second guy does it with two arms

you could use the free hand to like, finger your girlfriend or something

[Edited on October 13, 2008 at 8:53 PM. Reason : lkj]

10/13/2008 8:52:42 PM

those videos are pretty high resolution for youtube.

you can do some cool stuff with xpctarget. wish i still had a job that used it.

10/13/2008 8:58:02 PM

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"Im glad they wasted their money on that"

its just a start... upper extremity prosthetics are extremely limited due to their interface with the residual limb. plus these guys are working on their phds, so they aren't exactly wasting their money. they're wasting duke's money (or their sponsor's money)

10/13/2008 9:13:15 PM

I'm not seeing as waste at all, if they're developing fine control using "residual muscles."

10/13/2008 10:11:32 PM

This might pave the way for "Theremin Hero".

10/13/2008 10:16:33 PM