[haneefmubarak]

I do wonder what the impediment to continuing sales is. Was the armband a loss leader of some sort? Were the sales not high enough? Were there widespread product failures?

It always seemed like a rather neat concept, but I generally noticed that even out of all the people I know who love playing with cutting edge prosumer tech like this, none of them had a Myo armband. I do wonder if perhaps they found no real market for the technology and are intent on actually pivoting to something else...

[janoc]

It was much simpler - the device simply didn't work.

Certainly nowhere near what has been advertised. We have two at work and after testing them when they arrived they remained in the box ever since. It is a solution looking for a problem that doesn't even work properly most of the time.

[woodruffw]

I own one of these (I went to a lot of hackathons in college, and Myo armbands were one of the prizes that were given out like candy).

Unfortunately, it's just not good enough. Whether it's their choice of EMG sensor or that EMG technology just isn't there yet, the Myo's gesture detection is both incredibly limited (five or six simple finger-and-hand gestures, when I used it last) and not very accurate. It's a neat little device and I had a lot of playing using it for the first 30 minutes, but it's firmly in the "curious toy" category.

[haneefmubarak]

Hmm, so the product doesn't have much potential in its current state. I suppose it would be difficult to improve far beyond that using the same technology - perhaps they'll try and move to some sort of AR based solution?

The concept seems really neat and it'd be a shame if it all ended up not working out.

[akozak]

Seems like vision based detection would be both easier and better.