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Headband Gives Wearer "Sixth-Sense"
An anonymous reader writes "New Scientist reports on a headband developed at the University of Tokyo that allows the wearer to feel their surroundings at a distance — as if they had cats whiskers. Infrared sensors positioned around the headband vibrate to signal when and where an object is close. There are also a few great videos of people using it to dodge stuff while blindfolded."
How do I go about http://www.k2.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp/perception/HapticRadar/index-e.htmldodging stuff?
My grandmother used anecdotal evidence all the time, and she lived to be 120 years old.
This will prove invaluable on construction sites. I can't count the number of times I've had to duck a board being swung wildly by my co-worker Curly, only to have the board hit me on the back of the head on the return trip when he turns to face the other direction. This device would completely prevent this type of common construction accident.
I once thought I had a sixth sense while wearing a headband. It turns out it was just on too tight.
Now shrink it, and implant it in my cranium. I'll also take my embedded GPS and compass, accelerometer, laser rangefinder, light spectrometer, infrared/thermal vision, visual magnification, cochlear implant that records everything I hear/say, wireless Internet connection, and optical nerve tie-in for the interface. And hardened ceramic teeth that can be polished clean with fine-grit polishing compound. You have your mission, scientists. Go.
Not to mention, that thing seems like a barrel of fun :-) I want one.
It would also go a long way to debunking the claims of the so-called "Jedi Knights", whose powers on closer inspection, always turn out to be parlor tricks. For example, the captain of a small, private interstellar cruiser has been circulating a video where some kids puts on a blast shield helmet -- the kind that makes it so you can't see anything, and he's none the less able to block a few randomly fired shots from a floating probe.
Now, it's not very impressive to begin with (he fails to block the first two shots!), but this device can help explain why he was able to sense the shots even while he was blinded.
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OK cool, but... how fashionable a headband are we talking?
You can have my cynical agnosticism when you pry it from my cold, dead logic.
Does it let you see dead people?
This device doesn't allow you to see any dead people. Not even a little bit.
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A sixth sense, that is. It's called the sense of balance.
No, the sixth sense is when you think you're alive, but you've really been dead the whole time.
The theory of relativity doesn't work right in Arkansas.
XML is the answer.
I won't call you when this is ready, I'll wurzle you. You don't know what that means yet, but you will, trust me.
I find your lack of faith... disturbing.
If my call is important, why am I talking to a recording?
Why are you even here? If giving yourself spidey sense isn't cool to you you must not be a nerd. :P
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