Kinesis - Native macOS controls with Meta Neural Band
Show HN: Kinesis – Control your Mac with the Meta Neural Band
Kinesis lets you control your Mac using the Meta Neural Band, turning subtle muscle signals into native macOS actions. Swipe between desktops, open Mission Control, control music, and pinch + turn for volume or brightness. You can pick your own mappings, practice in setup, then keep it in the menu bar. Built in Swift for macOS 14+, it works on both Apple Silicon and Intel Macs. Download the notarized DMG, connect your band, and enable Bluetooth + Accessibility permissions to start. It's a practical, native way to harness neural band input for everyday Mac use.
I wanted to harness my neural band tinkering to make it do something useful.
- geoah
The neural band always looked more interesting than the glasses tbh.
I've been moving more and more away from terminal and IDEs, and I've been exploring how I could move to a flip phone / table + compact keyboard as most of my development time is now possible to be done via just using TTS.
I'd be interested in exploring if something like this could remove the need for a mouse or touching the screen as well.
Some alternatives that are not bound to the meta glasses: Mudra Link (USD 299), Mudra Band for Apple Watch (USD 350), MindRove Armband (USD 800, wow), SiFi Labs SiFi Band (no price), OYMotion gForce Pro+ (USD 1250, ok this side project is starting to look expensive)
- neoncontrails
This looks like it could potentially be a huge productivity win. The ergonomics seem tantalizingly similar to the infamous scene from Minority Report where Tom Cruise manipulates translucent data streams with his bare hands.
Could I suggest that you shoot a new promotional demo video with enough lighting that viewers can see your hands? Personally I'd be very curious to see and understand the actual gestures that support a real world workflow involving multiple desktops and applications, with the hands transitioning as needed between neural band mode for navigation vs. keyboard/mouse mode for fine-grained motor inputs.
- cisrockandroll
Kinesis is a legendary keyboard brand.
- pluc
Kinesis is already a word and an Amazon product, might have better discoverability naming your project something unique and specific.
- fidotron
The vibe coders have finally discovered their killer interface, and it is kind of cool, especially if integrated with voice inputs.