Re:The Third Thumb Project
by ampdepolymerase on Saturday May 22, 2021 @01:59AM
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I am surprised they didn't use electromyography bands which are a perfect fit for this particular application (like those by Ctrl Labs and Thalmic labs). Perhaps their budget didn't allow for making custom amplifier chips.
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She mentions this in her Tedx talk [0]. She wanted something more orthogonal to the existing hand muscles.
The easier and cheaper method is probably better for her scope as well.
I believe she made a mistake here: neural signal latency to toes would be nearly double that of latency to fingers.
I disagree: I find that she makes an excellent point about the choice she made in the video linked above. She is a designer, exploring ideas about body augmentation. She is not (and nor is anyone else) at the stage of perfecting a design so that it become the most performant. "Premature optimization..." and all that.