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Echolocation for Humans
anoopsinha writes "An article in New Scientist reports that bat echos can be used as virtual reality guide. People wearing headphones could easily hunt down a 'virtual insect', using only the echolocation sounds. The report says that it is a 'very intuitive process.' The researchers behind the project hope that a similar system in the cockpit of fighter planes could allow pilots to track some controls using their hearing, freeing up their eyes for other tasks."
When you drive, you can't look at the speedometer and the road at the same time,
That's what I tried to tell him...
The coolest voice ever.
I heard about something on a TV show a few years ago. It talked about some guy who was training deaf people to "echolocate" using clicks. Supposedly, they were able to walk, tell the diff between walls and shrubs, and even skateboard. Does anyone know about this?
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and they still havent helped me pick up the perfect who-likes-short-shorts bat woman.
Holy smoke! The penguin thinks he can escape us into that smokescreen! Quick, Robin, give me the bat-sonar-headphones!
What you hear in Star Wars isn't sound in space, it's echolocation technology.
I'm pretty sure this is the same technique I use to find my porn movies in the dark......
...welcome our new bat overlords.
So you mean all this time I've been getting banned from game servers for using mods to see everyone, it was a power all humans can develop?! Unfair!
SAILING MISHAP
wow you didn't just go there.
I bet I could get a blind-deaf person to navigate using only taste! Strap two solar cells to their forehead and run the wires to opposite sides of their tongue! Hey, it's only 1-pixel stereo vision, but better than nothing.
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For as long as I can remember, I've been able to echolocate people moving around me while I'm near a CRT -- especially when I'm sitting at a computer. I can...shall we say, "feel" the movements of people behind me. (It's a spatial sense. Not sure how else to describe it.) It's not as if I can tell what they're doing with their hands or anything detailed like that (you know, dodging projectiles and such), but I'm aware of their general position.
So now, of course, my primary machine has an LCD. No more echolocation. (Luckily, it's a laptop, so I can keep my back to the wall.) I don't have the 15.7 KHz whine of an electron tube to bounce off things around me. Ye gods, that infernal CRT whine...most people can't hear it, but it drives me bats.
Oh dear. In all honesty, I wasn't trying to pun.
just make sure you don't get accused of wallhacking and then banned from life...
Who do I sue about my broken nose?
Sure, no problem.
They already do this. Its called "hearing". There's really nothing extrordinary about this. All he's doing is converting an ultra-sonic echo to a sonic echo.
As a practical usage of this, some of the cross walks in Boston have auditory chirps which guide blind people across the street. As you cross the street, you can hear one sound just before another and you know when you're across based on which sound you hear first.
Taht's cool as hlel.
I'm sorry officer I was trying to drive by echolocation but I forgot to take the headphones off...
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Thanks, now I have a big huge bruise on my head!
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That's old news, Slashdot editors have been on that from day one! ;-)
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At one time this amazed scientists - blind people could walk through a room without hitting objects. So, they covered their bodies in thick felt, and the blind still had their obstacle sense. Then, they filled their ears with wax, and the blind bumped into things.
And then they published their results, in a brightly coloured book called "21 Fun Things to do with Blind People."
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