[georgewfraser]

I was in the same YC batch as Thalmic, and 2 years before that I did a PhD in neuroscience at a lab where one of the projects involved recording from forearm muscles using implanted electrodes. Even when you have the electrodes inside the arm you see a ton of signal from other muscles and it’s quite hard to unscramble useful information in a single trial. After demo day I was kinda surprised they raised so much money, anyone who had done forearm EMG work would have told you that you just can’t get good enough signals at the surface to do what they’re proposing. But I’ve since learned that a lot of VCs just don’t do scientific diligence, they invest based on people and markets. And in spite of my skepticism I too was hoping that Thalmic had figured out some killer special case of blind source separation and the Myo would work beautifully.

[mattigames]

Yep; I bought a Myo arm band and it's completely useless; I spend a few hours trying to change its location over my arm guessing there was something wrong about how I was using it and unable to do even trigger the most basic demo gestures.