As demonstrated in the video after the break, Microsoft's connecting EMG sensors to arm muscles and then detecting finger gestures based on the muscle movement picked up by those sensors. It does away for the need of a pesky camera (or Power Glove) to read complicated hand gestures, and can even sense modified versions of the gestures to be performed while your hands are full.
Microsoft Research developing muscle sensors based computer input method
Posted on Monday, January 04 2010 @ 19:21 CET by Thomas De Maesschalck
Engadget reports Microsoft has filed a patent for a controller-free computer input method that uses sensors to pick up muscle movement.