Now this is cool. Using a standard electromyograph attached to the forearm, the geeks at Microsoft's Muscle-Computer Interface group set up Guitar Hero to react to the position and pressure of all five fingers.

How badass is this? In all honesty, overpriced toy instruments cluttering up my living room is one of the big reasons I almost never play Rock Band or Guitar Hero games anymore. This looks to solve that problem while also bringing all of my air guitar fantasies to life. [Procrastineering via Make]

http://gizmodo.com/5390838/air-guitar-hero-lets-you-shred-sans-plastic-guitars

Damn, that is awesome and should be intrigated in the next xbox or just make it now.

OH MY GOD...That is badass! Microsoft has some crazy innovative ideas.

What scares me about things like this, is once they start reading people's sensations, how long until they convince people that it's ok for someone else to start controlling those sensations ('only in emergencies' of course).

lol he looks like an idot running down the street throwing up gang signs.

Nice tho, think of RTS.

Stolen from Sony.

Interesting stuff.

For this to be practical, they'll have to build it into some kind of glove or armband that's reliable and durable, and doesn't require regular calibration. I'm a little skeptical that unintentional input will be as easy to filter out as this presentation makes it seem, though it could perhaps be resolved with a simple switch on the input device that toggles it from active to inactive.

But I like holding stuff in my hands!...

Go away troll.

There's no practical way to control these impulses yet, nor even really affect them without causing severe damage. We can read them, sure, but we can also read a lot of things off of the Sun.

Anyway.

This looks.... pretty sweet.