DIYer constructs Ultrasonic Batgoggles, doles out instructions
By Darren Murph 
posted May 29th 2008 5:17AM
posted May 29th 2008 5:17AM
Read - Ultrasonic Batgoggles project page
Read - Ultrasonic Batgoggles How-to guide
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Holy nerd-no-girlfriend batman!
More like a tai looking big ass cockroach
Bat-senses initiated...no women within five hundred kilometre radius...commence penile echostimulation and cry self to sleep...again.
The time, talent, and creativity that went into making this was sorely wasted. Seriously, what's the point?!
Did you try reading the product page? That would explain "the point" to you very well. Everyone else making "stupid-looking geek" jokes has also not bothered to read the article (for example, it deliberately looks more stupid than it needs to, cos the kids they love it).
For what it's worth, I think what he's done is admirable. I'd have loved to have played with something like this when I visited science museums as a kid. As the guy says, it would have demonstrated the echolocation concept in an easy and memorable (and fun) way.
But you wouldn't see me wearing bat-ear goggles these days. I'm too old and sensible now. Um.
Uh, "project page". Silly me.
It's a very poor effort, and the site's fancy wording doesn't even begin to hide that.
i dont like bats
Not even Ace Ventura does!
Ultrasonic proximity sensor, wheee! I guess the "ears" are just a visual "blind geek approaching" indicator to warn the innocent.
He should have warned my that the vid contains extremly annyoing high pitched beeps....my ears...
Goddamit! Even bats think I look like a loser! Next step - ant vision...
Even ants think I look like a loser!
the goggles, they do nothing!
Yeah... those antenna look like. Well, what SIlent bob made into a cd player and won a science fair.
it would be great if somehow, with processing power of some small cpu,
instead of black glasses of these goggles on tiny LSDs or OLEDs we can see an actual picture generated by the echolocators, like the surface of the bottom of the sea . get it?
Im sure putting these on while on LSD would not be advisable.
@ Goldy
I don't get it, actually. Care to explain?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonar
in 3D on lcds
I know it may be difficult to understand but maybe this guy is trying to create something for blind people to use to get around. Instead of using a stick or a dog to get around they could use echolocation. Sounds like a good idea to me.
What you saying actually sounds very realistic. Could be!
I'm pretty certain that already exists.
Yeah they already got that for years, except the sounder is not displayed in such a silly way.
I was watching a news show, I think 20/20, and they had a few people on that made like clicking noises themselves and could Echo Locate themselves. Completely blind, and yet could tell what was a bush, a fence, people, riding around on a bike without any problem, etc. Pretty amazing how they do it. Really, almost like a bat. The experts say it's not as high pitched and as fast as a bat so the resolution isn't as good. Then again a bat is trying to find a small little bug in a mass of bats!
Looks like goggles a Star Wars podracer would wear.
Or the driver of said podracer.
Ratchet and Clank anyone?
That video had me on the floor checking why my UPS was crying.
At first I was scratching my head trying to understand why he would build something so dorky, but when I read that it was built as a way to teach kids about echolocation it makes total sense and is actually pretty cool.
As a digital expression of an analogue process, it follows this gizmo would be great for (echo)locating, er, code 'bugs'.... [Note: when pointed at a Vista equipped Dimension desktop it squeals like a bat out of, er, Dell....]
It looks like an anthropomorphic Riddick rabbit or something.
call george lucas, warn him of impending break in at skywalker ranch by deranged fan wearing welding goggles and sporting "sick poker face"
GO GO GADGET Ultrasonic Batgoggles!