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Myo is a consumer product marketed for use as a natural user interface input device. The typical consumer wears Myo on his or her arm to seamlessly control applications by way of orientation and kinematic information along with the detection of hand gestures. These outputs are enabled by eight surface electromyography (sEMG) sensors and an inertial measurement unit containing at least a three axis gyroscope and a three axis accelerometer (existence of a magnetometer is ambiguous). With this combination of technology packaged in a relatively inexpensive consumer product, this device is a wonderful treat for experimentation by students, researchers, scientists, and engineers!
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Just over one year ago, an undergraduate researching student in my lab set out to harness the capabilities of Myo as a real time interactive data acquisition system to be accessed in the MATLAB environment. 
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