Gesture control without a camera. Does it involve hacking a theramin? From the Wikipedia article:
It is named after the westernized-name of its Russian
inventor, Léon Theremin, who patented the device in 1928.
The controlling section usually consists of two metal
antennas which sense the position of the player's hands
and control oscillators for frequency with one hand, and
amplitude (volume) with the other, so it can be played
without being touched.
This is (at least) the 3rd Velocity startup; BufferBox (S12) recently exited to Google (not a talent acquisition from reliable sources) and Pebble (W11) just announced general production yesterday. Congrats to Thalmic, you're in good company!
As a UW Elec 08 alumni, it's fantastic to see fellow alumni following through on their ideas. Moreover, this is yet another win for UW VeloCity, since it's yet another startup that has made it into YC. I can't wait until I get myself into the Garage.
This is great for the Greater Toronto Area in general. I can hardly wait until I return to Toronto from the Bay Area to try and bring back some of this startup culture.
There are a lot of bright people in the GTA that are lacking the motivation or are unaware of what steps they need to take in actually getting a startup moving off the ground.
YC W13 seems like it was difficult to get into. Congratulations to the team!
Two thirds of this article including the first 3 paragraphs are about something else.
Why would you waste your time on a journalist who thinks your startup is the least interesting part of your startup? Even AOL gives better treatment than that.
Sounds interesting. I'm really interested in the YC W13 startups -- if there are half as many, maybe twice as good? And maybe a leading indicator of other startup trends (b2b vs. b2c split, which technologies, etc.)
