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notice anything missing from this PowerPoint presentation maybe the clicker and this video game is being played without a controller the tech that makes that possible Myo an arm BAM that understands how your arm hand and fingers move thanks to a built in processor and eight muscle sensors we pick up these tiny signals that come from your muscles you know when I'm gonna make a fist my brain is sending these impulses down my nerves made by filmic Labs the one hundred and fifty dollar Mayo lets you control computers and devices with your motions and then all those signals are sent into a little processor on here that's been trained using machine learning to recognize which different muscles correspond to different gestures gesture recognition technology isn't new there's the popular Kinect from Microsoft and the leap motion controller precisely tracks all fingers but unlike those devices Myo doesn't use cameras so users aren't limited to a specific area there's this like old problem with gesture control they call it the gorilla arm syndrome and that's because the camera has to see me I have to be out like this to do it and so with this technology you know I can be sitting here armed my side and go ahead and take control over the device the armband connects to devices via low-energy bluetooth and has a range of 50 feet so you could turn up your favorite track streaming on your laptop from across the room the model thalmic labs expects to sell to the public later this year will be thinner and lighter than this developers version but our consumers willing to wear an arm bit maybe not while they're replying to email but you might be able to tempt them with a drone in San Francisco I'm Sumi das scenic for CBS News