This Helmet Gives You ECHOLOCATION Powers
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😢 I couldn't hear 19 or 18 kHz. 41yo. Musician. Dang it lol
Excellent idea, project and execution. Thanks for sharing
This could be really cool for blind people. I think if it is not modulated to the audible range, but instead just above and then uses noise canceling headphones, which are in transparent mode and use some software to downshift the signal to the audible range. This way, other people don't get disturbed and there is probably things that can be done to improve the experience, like amplifying low signals.
i've been able to hear bats all my life, and only now i just realized. the sound isn't pointing towards the bat, i hear it more like it knocks inside my brain. i'm not hearing the bat, the fucking bat is looking at me! :D
Apparently there’s some blind guy (I can’t remember his name unfortunately) I believe he’s from England that learned how to echo locate.
"Older viewers may not be able to hear this"
"Ha, sucks for them" *hears nothing* "Oh"
Literally tho 😢
Same, Im only 20 did I mess up my ears or?
Also some, though I am 30
I’m 18 and could not hear either 😢
probably has to due with bad headphones or speakers - If they can't output up to 18k or 19k then you wouldn't be able to hear it. Cheap headphones will say 20hz-20,000hz but not actually output the top end or low end
My takeaway from this video is:
If I want to avoid being detected by a bat, I should dress up as a Lockheed F-117 Nighthawk attack aircraft.
I now identify as a Supercruise capable,All-weather Air Superiority Fighter Lockheed Martin F-22 Raptor.
@@Eis_
And i assume your mortal enemy is bats?
@@artsyscrub3226 no, just commies.
@@Eis_prove it
@@artsyscrub3226 is it a man or a bat?
If you have any friends who are firefighters, give them a whirl on the helmet and see if they get a grasp of it faster. We get extensive training on how to keep our bearings in rooms without any visual input because smoke often manifests a total blackout, and your experiment felt so much like a search drill. It might be interesting to see what it's like when someone uses it that already has an existing framework to build off of
I wonder if the smoke in that situation would make the sound beam scatter eratically? Think turning your brights on in thick fog
@@JudgeConviction the idea isn’t to have them in a smoky situation, just use their training in those situations to see if they can utilize it better than the average joe
@@sariourlecai1561 what would be the point of that experiment, though? Just to prove that people who have decent training in completing blinded tasks will make better use of the echolocation helmet? Isn't that a given? 🤔
At least with testing using blind people, the echolocation helmet can then be used by them, assuming it works well for them. But if firefighters can't use it in their relevant situations (i.e. smokey fire rescues) then what's the point?
@@perpetualleakage "people who have decent training in completing blinded tasks will make better use of the echolocation helmet" exactly the point for the usecase of firefighters
Bats : "look what they have to do to gain a fraction of our power"
the effectiveness is even higher than you think - when you realize that he ran after the cameraman for half the time without being told, so he pretty accurately found the 3 targets
Great point. I didn't even realize that at first because the camera man also moved around which confused him what he was hearing as well as seeing from the cameraman POV has me inherently forgetting there is a person behind the camera.
@@JS10KI found that hilarious, the cameraman was unintentionally gaslighting him into thinking it wasn't working.
This post needs more traction. That was the best piece of evidence it could have been! He was chasing the camera very well without even realizing it.
And that was a moving target as well. Presumably the cameraman made some small sounds with his footsteps, but even so, that is very impressive for what would have only been a few minutes of using the device.
Honestly, I found it hilarious how he was just chasing the cameraman around and no one bothered to let him know...
Hello! I have a Ph.D in psychoacoustics, and my research was in perception of space and the interaction between sound and vision senses. The effect that you studied here is an actual technique used by blind people to echolocate, by emitting click sound with their mouths or other objects, and require extensive training. The most famous case was a boy called Ben Underwood, that was able not only to walk without a cane, but do very extraordinary thing, like actually play basketball (and hit the score easily) or walk with his bicycle without any assistance. An MRI while doing this technique showed that he used to process echolocation the same area in the brain that non blind people use for vision. That means that he actually could see throught sound.
Oh hey, somebody who officially knows what they're talking about, neat.
Also, I did briefly try learning that technique for fun, but didn't practice enough to get good at it. The "blade pop" tongue click is a handy loud noise I can make now, though.
I've learned active imaging echolocation in the Daniel Kish style, i.e. "click sonar", and though it took me a few months I actually managed to link the two senses, sound and sight. When I click my tongue I actually see the world around me; if I really focus I see it sometimes even in ("false") color. Not in the same sense as in normal vision, because there's a lot less and different detail in sound, but I can navigate pretty well in rooms, forests, etc. with only clock sonar.
I think that it's easier for a sighted person to learn active imaging echolocation, because you already know how the world "should" (or could) visually look like. You just have to train your echolocation until the "imagining" you've previously done actively becomes automatic.
@@ooquiThat sounds so crazy it’s almost hard to believe. Why would you want to learn this skill as a sighted person, though, considering how difficult it is supposed to be? Doesn’t seem very practical compared to just seeing. But maybe I’m just narrow minded or I fail to „see“ the usecases of such skill.
@@Erhannis How do you do it?
@@tomy34188walking in the dark or at night without a flashlight?
I have a feeling that the dance studio was actually making things harder than they needed to be. A room with flat walls everywhere will cause a bunch of echos, making it harder to place where the original sound is coming from. Probably an open field (maybe out in the snow, because it absorbs echos) would work even better!
whenever you try to orient by a sound emitting "laser" focused cone of those soundwaves, you could actually just ditch the noises that repeat eachother by distance. Its easier than you might think.
12:09 the cameraman messed up the echolocation. The "bat" knew there is something in front of him but the cameraman kept moving, causing confusion.
Honestly that was a perfect scene as a horror movie.
14:29 goes for a high five, remembers he's blindfolded, pretends to fix hair. Classic.
Passed the "is Human" test
"oh and he also asked who wants to go next and I already had my hand up, so I can pretend that's what I was trying to do the whole time. No one will ever know this dark secret"
We do know.
why you gotta call him out like this 😭
No big deal, Batman's lying all the time, too:)
I’m glad he’s just as awkward as I am.
0:33 a yes, the dark art of physics. Causing suffering and despair in all physics students
taught by professor grape who killed dumbo the dwarf.
Please, that could be a great tool. Especially if the clicks are also inaudible by increasing the frequency further- and the person using it also has a device in ear that can detect that ultrasound.
That’s a great idea! Having something that makes an annoying clicking sound all the time may not be ideal, but if it comes with a way to make the sound only audible to the user, that could work great!
@@jordanthomson1572Then bat, dolphin and the likes. Could hear them, not only the user
@@gabrielaziez202 True, but would that be a problem? Dolphins generally don't inhabit the same habitat as people. Bats sometimes do, but bats are also able to navigate even when there's other bats nearby, so unless this machine is MUCH louder than bats (and bats are very loud), I don't think it should be a problem.
One possible issue could be the other way around, where the person using the device would hear bat clicks too. It might mean that the device can't be used effectively when bats are flying nearby, or it might just need a filter in the software to ensure it only translates the intended signal, and anything else gets ignored.
@@jordanthomson1572 this could be solved easily by making frequency amplifier headphones (or earplugs). Yep, a person with the same frequency would "see" you, but as long as you just switch channels, this might work. Like a portable radio frequences pool from 20000Hz to 21000Hz.
So, for example, emitters would emit different Herz inaudible waves, by amplifier you would hear familiar sound, everyone happy.
15:51
"There's a blind person staring at me..."
"How can you tell?"
"I can FEEL Miley Cyrus in my head..."
I already know the only reason he’s not turning someone into a bat monster is because his lawyer said “no.”
Lawyers are also immune to the echolocation
@@3mileshiDaredevil would be able to tell you were echolocating him, not sure about all lawyers.
CRISPR that carries genetically is illegal in canada without a permit.
@@memejeff What if you neuter your test subjects?
No doubt about that.
Sperm whales CAN if they try kill someone with sound alone. They're apparently known to be more careful when divers are nearby
aww
aw. they whiper for their lil friends. Whales are too smart, i would love a source for this
@@thepizzaguy8477 I can look into it. I heard it somewhere, hence the "apparently"
apparent means clearly visible or obvious. you are looking for "reportedly"
@@huehuehuehuehuehuehuehuehuehue don't get smart with me when you're so clearly wrong. Apparently: adverb. As far as one knows or can see.
this channel always comes out with the most batshit thumbnails and then completely deliver
I see what you did there
Stealth aircraft’s do bounce radio waves to avoid detection, which does account for their strange look, but complex curves could do this as well… the reason why older ones are faceted is because computer simulations were not advanced enough during their development. You’re looking at a low poly render irl!
I'm still waiting for neurons playing doom...
It'll take a while. That is a very complex thing to do. Even a much more well-funded lab would probably still take years to get that working.
Go play doom then. You have neurons
@@Rippertear no I dont
@@HalfAsleepSam Oh ok sorry
@@RippertearThat is a very bold assumption to make
15:46 Yes! It might also be interesting to compare a person who has had blindness from birth, versus a person who became blind later in life.
oh i'd love to see how they respond to it - and how their exp differs
I've always had good ears, so about 20 years ago I thought-up the idea of using a high-pitch sound emitter that blind people can use to echo-locate. A few years later, I saw that a human was doing it, but using clicks he made himself.
Yeah, for the person blind since birth, you should Collab with Tommy Edison.
duh
Oh also, there's a blind guy (don't remember his name) who taught himself to echolocate using mouth clicks and is known for a relatively popular (perhaps even viral) video where he rides a bike at normal speeds using echolocation. Y'all should have him try the helmet out and see if he finds it helpful or whatnot.
We built up this device in 1996 as a project for high school graduation in Venezuela. It was amazing. I remember that we did a live demo in front of an audience. We used the same principle of echolocation and thus we named our electronic device "Ecolocador", or Ecolocator in English. Our device was very simple with only a couple of ultrasound transducers mounted on glasses, no stereo capabilities, The blind people that were willing to test it were amazed and asked us if we were going to manufacture it in mass, unfortunately we didn't go forward and it was just a high school project However, we gain a science recognition award in a regional high school contest for our invention
14:10 made me so happy for some reason 🎉😂.
You nailed this, dudes!
There are a few blind people who have "echo location" abilities by using vocal clicks, and actually see pictures in their head. The human brain is such an amazing organ.
They are bullshitting
@@Jon-cw8bbMost likely.. I think they can probably detect something when it's near them but not perceive it as a 'picture'.
@@Jon-cw8bbyea as far as I know it’s like if they are standing a foot away from a door, they could tell if it’s opened or closed
Or they could reach out and touch it….
It’s neat that it could be done in the vaguest sense but it’s not very useful for them beyond the novelty
When I first learned about this i closed my eyes and tried to navigate my house with clicks lol
@@jocaleb0236I’ve seen a video of this blind dude being able to skateboard around his suburban neighborhood (navigating around cars parked on the curb), people differentiating stuffed animals vs inflatable animals, and other cool stuff all with clicking. I’m sure there’s varying levels to it.
Calling an ultrasound transducer "not a speaker" just feels mean. An IR flashlight is still a flashlight.
But for the light to ‘flash’ a human has to perceive it. So calling it an IR emitter would be more accurate don’t you think?
We're all recievers of everything... but our bodies can't use most of that energy in a meaningfull way...
Not speech, perhaps a dogwhistler?
I mean it's not doing much speaking, it has a fear of crowds.
Speech is perceivable by humans. Ultrasound entire definition is that it's not. Therefore, it's a not-speaker.
13:14 echolocated the cameraman
12:30 - How has nobody mentioned that he almost immediately found a person?
He kept chasing the camera person. (Who kept moving!!!!)
Echolocation worked + he could hear footsteps but it was distorted by the echolocation Sound so he probably heard it and thought that was the echolocation Sound
1:32 Decibels in water are not same as Decibels in air. I think you should have clarified that. A different reference is used in water
That's very useful remark, I didn't know it and was a little bit sceptical/surprised by 230db
also the air inside our bodies makes it worse
Technically true, but there are a lot of air pockets in your body which make his statements mostly correct
Decidivingbels?
To convert It, you Subtract 26 From the Underwater measurement.
230-26= 204
230 decibels In water,
Is 204 decibels In Air.
Dude... you can sell this experience as some sort of attraction in malls or something
"Wanna be a bat?"
Can you find the moth? Wanna bat?
8:57 noooo freaking goodness I lost my ability to hear these kinds of high frequencies. I knew it would happen eventually...
Edit - I decided to finally try and make the sounds in audacity myself to try and see if its the video compression and such. I can hear 18khz, but barely hear 19khz.
i think youtube compression might be doing some shenanigans. check with a frequency generator
Audio compression is going to take out sounds people barely hear.
Some devices can't play high frequency sounds
please rest assured. most devices can't play above 17kHz. I tested with my speakers, headphones, and phone. I can hear 16990 but not 17000 because of the device limitations. my ears also kinda hurt now lol
14:29 awkward high five is awesome 😂
I know this has probably already been commented by now, but the whole "blind people using sound to echolocate" is already a thing
There was a news story that made the rounds a few years ago about people learning to navigate with clicking sounds of some sort
if I recall correctly, some people use like, a handheld clicker to provide the ping, but I was curious if anyone could learn how to do it, and from my experience I recommend just using your own mouth to generate the click. the fact your voice sounds different to you is useful for letting your instincts tell the outgoing and incoming sound apart, and it also means the sound source is always in the same place relative to your ears, so your brain doesn't have to account for the ping being in a different place each time or figure out how to tell two very similar sounds happening nearly simultaneously apart from each other.
also you can just do it whenever, which makes it easier to practice, and once you start being able to get signal returns you understand, you can easily adjust the pitch and even angle the sound a bit to adapt to different weather or noise conditions.
The biggest advantage of learning how to do it is that your passive ability to tell where noise is coming from practically *doubles* once you've got the trick down.
But this device creates a narrow "search cone", while human clicks I pressume have a wider "search cone", so it's a bit different.
It should still be interesting how well a blind person uses this device.
I'd argue that wider is better if you have the processing power to sift through the information, and it seems like we do since people can seemingly navigate with those clicks
His name is Daniel Kish. He had to have his eyes removed at 13 months due to cancer, and completely on his own, he developed human echolocation. He is the first totally blind person to be a legally Certified Orientation and Mobility Specialist (COMS) and to hold a National Blindness Professional Certification (NOMC). He also holds master's degrees in developmental psychology and special education from University of California Riverside. He now teaches blind people how to develop their own form of echolocation. The..."resolution"...that he is able to achieve is truly astounding.
@@IonOtter
That's very cool! I wondered what happened to him....
Similar reason Navy divers and other personnel have to be out of the water before SONAR can be used, the sweep of sonar acoustics will kill you in an awful way.
And yes, it has also caused marine wildlife to die.
I am a retired submarine sonar tech and I can still recite the divers working over the side warning that topside would have to say over the 1mc every half hour 😂
I got to read one of the released like death information? About some of the people who had been killed by the sonar. It is very gruesome. I won't even bother trying to describe it because it feels kind of disrespectful to do anything other than to warn people away from swimming anywhere underwater near Wales and military stuff. Not that you could really ever get that far normally, but still
There have been incidents with people literally hundreds of miles away being injured by sonar. That stuff is LOUD.
Did they find out before or after awfully killing their collegeas testing the first SONAR?
9:30 a correction here. mixing pure tones perfectly linearly does not create new harmonics. however, nonlinear behavior either in the mixing stage or after they are mixed, will cause them to create intermodulation distortion, which makes subharmonics in addition to harmonics (which in a digital context would also alias and make it more audible, but in the real world or with pure math, would not be audible). the nonlinearity in this use case is the air itself, which acts to demodulate an amplitude modulated ultrasonic frequency.
Well said, this is the fundamental of a parametric system. The Audacity example confuses because mixing and adding is not the same in this case. An audio mixing desk is just adding signals. Parametric mixing multiplies signals by one means or another, as you said, air non-linearity does it here.
It looks like he's clipping the audio in his audacity example? (since all inputs being added are individually already close to 0 dBFS), which would also provide the non-linearity needed to produce intermodulation products
@@MatthijsvanDuin yes that is almost certainly why it became audible
Really hoped someone would point this out!
Thank you all!
Man being hit with the “older listeners won’t be able to hear these sounds” and then not hearing 18khz and 19khz at 25 hits like a rock 😭😭
Same bro, and im only 20
CZcams might be capping the really high frequencies to save some audio bandwidth. I'm not sure if they do it as I haven't downloaded and checked the video, but it at least used to be fairly common practice to put a low-pass filter of about -3dB above 16kHz on uploaded videos.
12:25 broo the gaslighting 😂 when you swear you found something, but bro just moves out of the way without saying anything
15:39 XD You know: Some bugs scream back when targetet by a bat to communicate, that they taste very very bad and pursuit isn't worth it.
@@POTATOEMPN It was a joke.
@@mizu_retawnot a joke. "Acoustic Aposematism and Evasive Action in Select Chemically Defended Arctiine (Lepidoptera: Erebidae) Species" Bats actively avoid toxic moths that produce certain sounds.
@@POTATOEMPN LMAO
@@mizu_retaw Well, actually that was a serious hypothesis in a research paper I read many years ago. Guess it was an april fools joke and I only got it know.
@@POTATOEMPN Thanks for the clarification.
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12:09
TARGET ACQUIRED
Scream at your food until you find it? So like a toddler?
I'm just here to see a cool gadget, didn't expect to get shot with the "You're Old" 😓
Learned some cool stuff in the process, so worth it in the end. Thanks for the video!
Your speakers might not reproduce higher frequencies, particularly phone speakers.
Don't feel bad. I'm only 32 and I couldn't hear 18k or 19k. I can only hear up to about 16500 reliably. Too many loud noises in my 20s.
Yeah 👍🏻 Imma blame the speakers ! Not that I usually have them cranked 😅 😂. I dunno mate, hit thirty, now I guess I'm just old!
Was in my office and I was listening to this, "Hmm guess my headphones can't make that sound", from across the cubicles a younger tech, "Does anyone hear that noise?" fml
oh It's fine and natural to grow older,doesn't mean much ....besides the fact you're more likely to die before those of us who are younger.
not helping?..it's just more likely, if it makes you feel better I'll probably die before you.
Ben about to high-five a blind person was gold!
Really interesting the idea of using this technology for the blind. Reminds me of a documentary about a kid called Ben Underwood who lost his eyes as a child. He taught himself how to 'see' by making clicks with his mouth and thus being able to tell apart his surrounding, but to an astonishing degree. There is a clip where he's skating around on his street navigating between cars, another where he is playing basketball.
I think the documentary was called 'The boy who see's without eyes'.
0:14 " A power we want for ourselves"
_Using echolocation to find weed in a grass field_
Yooo eagle eye!! I Didnt spot it!
Nice easter egg
FYI 18 and 19 kHz might be above the low-pass filter used in the audio encoder by CZcams. I have not downloaded and checked it, but it is common practice to improve low bitrate audio quality by low-passing with a -3dB knee at 17-20 kHZ
I don't think so, I only say this because my cat freaked out when they were played hahaha
I hope you are right. Otherwise I apparently have the hearing of an old person already
You are right, I just checked with Audacity, the sound is a flatline at those moments.
Edit: It seems like CZcams frequency cutoff is 16kHz
@@BirdbrainEngineer lol, I could hear both. 18kHz very clearly, 19kHz faded out after a while and became this sort of sensation somewhere in the background. But I could 100% hear the 18kHz, and 19 at the beginning
yeah they didn't sound like 18/19kHz at all and i've tested those in the past and I also remember youtube cutting everything above 16kHz
I love this channel. I truly appreciate the time and care you take to put into each of your videos.
I am a retired submarine sonar tech and I've heard all these ocean creatures and more, sperm whale calls are no joke 😅BTW your explanation for beam forming was great! I remember in sonar A school nearly everyone flunking the test on beamforming 😂(not me I hit 100%)
My farts smell the nicest too
In your opinion what’s the weirdest sound you’ve heard underwater that you could recognize
@@blakemcmillan5680 oh man, the loudness of snapping shrimp was a surprise, it sounds like thousands of people chewing on carrots 😂but to me the weirdest sounds are those made by walruses, it sounds like someone ringing a bell!
is there anywhere we can listen to recordings of these kinds of things? that would be neat
@@eaudesolero5631 There's probably videos on YT of animal sounds recorded by sonar, be it military or commercial sonar.
I remember seeing something like this on "Project Cyborg", where Kevin Warwick did a series of experiments where he implanted himself with an array of electrodes to the nerves in his arm and then made an interface for it. One of the things he tested was having an ultra sound emitter/receiver and then being able to move around blindfolded in his lab after a bit of training. This was back in 1998, and I remember being so fascinated by this. I think there are still interview available here on youtube.
The sentance at 7:55 made me chuckle:
This way, we have to "manually" use our head.
Why not "neckly" use our head
Great video, as always.
You guys are the closes thing there is to Rick and Morty IRL.
Idea for the next attempt! Using ultrasound microphones on each side of the head, and using a software to interpret them into recognizable sounds (walls can be warmer, and spiky things high pitched). Also, increasing the rhythm of the pulses will give the software more 'resolution'.
This is amazing! I'm wondering why we don't have commercial solutions like that for blind people (maybe it exists and I don't know)
Ah yes, ths infamous Japanese directional speaker kit from 2010
I still have two of them I use to make house to house solicitors think they are hearing demonic voices.
"I am Batman"
*fiep fiep fiep*
More like Daredevil, if I'm not mistaken.
how did you comment 6 hours ago this video came out 14 minutes ago
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Stunning content! Yes definitely you should try this on some vison impaired people. I remember seeing a clip of a blind man who learned how to ride a bike and navigate by listening to the echo of the click sound he made with his mouth, this can work like on steroids, vision impaired people can take a big advantage of this highly directional sound, this would add a lots of resolution. Looking forward to the next one!
9:50 Nagareteku toki no naka de demo kedarusa ga hora guruguru mawatte~~~ what? ah yeh uhh sounds off the walls yes, head very much
It might also be interesting to compare a person who has had blindness from birth, versus a person who became blind later in life.
Echolocating bats also have one of the most specialized cochleae. They have a disproportionately large swathe of their basilar membrane dedicated to their call frequency, which is not a typical adaptation in mammals, who normally have a fairly constant logarithmic(ish) frequency map along their organ of Corti. The distribution adds a lot of temporal information to the call, and means a lot of the signal processing for echolocation occurs at a mechanical level inside the inner ear.
sincerely, a hearing researcher.
Favorite part of the video was the fact that the dude with the helmet pointed at the camera man and went to where they were standing 3 separate times
Fun fact: Daniel Kish is a blind man who uses a form of echolocation to navigate. Theres a video of him describing a park he's never been in just using his echolocation.
10:57 reject humanity, return to möth
That phased array is also how the fancy targeting and jamming radar works in the nose cone of our most modern fighter jets. Just more meta material lensing. Great video. Also, might be time for a haircut 😉
I watched a documentary years ago about people who were blind and they were able to make a clicking sound with their mouth (at first they used a clicker) and successfully used it as echolocation and used it everyday to get around, most of them still used a stick as well, but still it was really cool to see how the body and brain could adapt for such a thing.
Well done boys!
Very cool. Also appreciate the info on those transducer arrays. Answered some of my questions
This is awesome! Would love to see how well you could find a moth in a room filled with obstacles. Having a blind person using rick roll to get around town would be hilarious!
0:09 - When you mentioned a super power expected you to mention the weight class that one bat is flying dear lord
This is also a really good explanation of how radar works, and would be a good training aid for avionics students.
using never gonna give you up to echolocate yourself is one of the most internet thing i've ever heard
How the surface structures on a bat's face can end up focusing and defocusing sound sounds cool enough for biomimetics
“A power, which we need; A power, we need for ourselves.”
- Every large company ever
If I remember correctly, there is already at least one blind guy who echolocates to navigate, and is pretty successful at it. But I wonder if others would be able to do it with the assistance of the helmet.
ill be honest... i read echolocation as "echocolation" and became really intrigued for a second
5:13 hey just a heads up that there should be a warning on these for photosensitive people, the strobing patterns can set off an epileptic episode or migraine in some.
(I suffer from photosensitive migraines that make me temporarily blind and in extreme pain, and this segment unfortunately set off an episode for me)
Doubt
@@benGman69 Nobody asked
You’re being really chill for the fact he just set you on an episode unintentionally. Thanks for being a chill Human being!
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Phased arrays and beamforming are some of my favorite physics things. So naturally I loved this video!
Great project. It reminded me of my friend, who was full time inventor, I mean he had been living of his patents and products. And once he got an idea to try to make glasses for his blind friend to help him "see" the objects. Because it was more than 40 years ago, instead of just picking an ultrasound distance sensor, he used the focusing element from video camera and installed it a the front of the glasses, and converted its signal to the vibrations in the temples (arms). I wasn't present when they were testing it, but my friend said that the blind guy after two days could pick up a needle from the table. So I totally agree we're capable of much more than we know, one just needs to stumble upon the right idea. Yours might probably also help blind people finding they way around, with some modifications, or miniaturization at least. Their senses are more honed than in average people anyway.
Oh, and thanks for the 18 and 19 kHz samples. I also have Audacity installed, but it never crossed my mind to test my hearing. Now I know I can sell my speakers which are occupying almost half of my room and buy a much more compact hearing aid:) Maybe they also have a 12kHz version of FL studio LOL.
Kinda interesting how when you went first, you kept noticing the camera guy who kept moving… and then it seemingly threw off your calibration because you knew something was there, but he kept moving away, so it seems like you just ignored that and wrote it off… but you were right.
Should’ve told the camera guy to just announce themselves and let you keep going instead of potentially messing you up lol
Babe wake up
We can now speak with bats and dolphins
Is this a new meme format? I don't remember anyone using this before like two days ago and now I've seen several.
@@TheJohtunnBandit idk i saw it in nile red's channel. im just bored
@@TheJohtunnBandit It's well over 5 years old at this point.
bats will only say "moth? moth? moth? moth! moth!"
Easy there, don't want to raise Posadas from his grave do we?
9:01 well, maybe I’m already going deaf at 20
from what I remember, around 17/18 KHz is what people stop hearing around the age of 18. This is actually very wild for me because I remember watching a video on high frequency sounds when I was 16 and I could hear them very clearly. And yeah now I'm 21 and I didn't hear a thing. I'm getting old, man.
this has nothing to with deaf in that sense. It's like how people wearing glasses aren't technically blind.
However, if you have been subjected to loud sounds over prolonged periouds of times this can happen quite early. (Think of loud bassy sounds, in cars or festival speakers on concerts and yes, even driving fast with windows down.... Especially that)
The tiny hair "sensors" in your ear get damaged and result in less detectable audible range.
Personally speaking... You did not miss much. I can't really hear the sound as much anymore but it's evoking a really screeching sensation, similar to what people feel like when someone scratches on a chalkboard.
I'm 23 and can't hear the sounds either. I also sometimes notice my peers hearing a very high pitched sound that I have to really tune in to barely hear. It is what it is.
Damn my car stereo
most speakers don''t play that high, like phone speaker can only get to likw 12.5KHz (or maybe it's from the high pitches not being setnt over the internet)
incredible video ! just to clarify, other means are available than parametric speakers to obtain such directivities, whether by having sources that are huge relative to wavelength (say 4 to 16 λ, which yields coverage angles of 18 to 4.5 degrees between -6 db points) or by using beam forming in the pass band of the speaker. that being said, controlling directivity is easier with small wavelengths
0:02 best introduction to a video ever 😂
1:07 melon🍈
The use of an ultrasonic beat freq to a detector on helmet and use a phase discriminator to provide some binaural audio to headphone may provide a more useful signal than the audible chirp.
Arguably, the ear-brain capabilities of frequency and direction detection from the incoming sound are much superior to the binaural processed signal. But it is a thing to find out.
@@umbrelit could at least be used to eliminate the need for audible sound, allowing it to be used around other people without them having to hear it
@@yorkleroy5605 it can be very useful, but if the interface is to be a processed binaural signal, there is no need to limit the detector to sound, you could use microwave and hear through walls. Though a sound based interface is very limited for people who are not blind, an AR overlay would be more interesting then.
For blind people a normal camera could be processed into a binaural signal for multiple objects at the same time.
For the rest of us, I suppose that the most useful use would be to hear where the eyes can't reach, like placing a camera in the back of your head and hearing what's behind you.
Two down-converting receivers fed from the same oscillator should be enough. Some radio amateurs use a binaural radio receiver and say the sensation is very interesting; different signals appear to be in different spatial locations.
The way this was presented is hilarious as hell. Good job guys.
i love the casual explanation off additive synthesis 9:18
Bats can be both the cutest and startlingly peculiar little things 😂
This is ridiculous and I love it. How is this not an assistance device for the blind?
Money... probably, though some people who are blind can do it without devices.
He just made it.
@@mythzel898bet2 And that is, what I find amazing. Saw a documentary about a boy who taught himself echolocation, when cancer took his eyesight. The resolution he could achive was mindblowing. He could even ride the bicycle and detect objects of the size of a lipstick. Sadly his cancer returned in his teens.
@@mythzel898bet2 Ben Underwood. He did it with amazing resolution and precision.
Edit: Don't know, why my comment was censored.
it is already
An excellent application is for VR helmets, get an audible proximity warning through an accessory, instead of cameras, which are computationally expensive to use and you have to define a fence and so on. Standalone VR helmets which run on batteries can benefit from this and you can turn off the cameras and the whole fencing subsystem. Great project!
this was super awesome. I always thought it would be impossible for us to do what bats do to process the return signals, but in retrospect I shouldn't have been surprised. We already have a good sense of where sounds are coming from and how far away they are, but it's just so natural that I don't really think about it
I love this channel. You guys feel like the scientists of old, combining knowledge from so many domains to do cool shit.
Thanks now I have "YOU SPIN ME RIGHT ROUND BABY RIGHT ROUND LIKE A RECORD BABY RIGHT ROUND RIGHT ROUND" stuck in my head 😭
8:50 sound interacts with other sound so if you cant detect because its out of the range, like old and young, you can use the sound you have to see the alterations from the other sound. Like laying a blanket down and seeing the alterations/deformations through your own blankets outlines.
19kh: can't hear.
18kh: vibrates my brain.
Your merch is not what I expected! Love the art and thought put into each item. 🤘
At 2:45, nice touch with the Zoidberg scuttle sound.
as someone with a background in radar and antennas, I commend you on how well you explained the concepts.
2:43 is amazing. Great costume design. 5 stars.
I have seen a blind person make sounds with their mouth and use the return to orientate them self. Still impressive to see how easy this skill was to pick up for you. I guess having the narrow beam of the speaker makes it a lot easier.
7:28 not really, the shown F-117 was so angular because of software limitations for calculating the reflection at the time. Newer stealth aircraft like F-22 are nice and rounded, because computers (and software) got powerful enough to simulate the reflections. I recommend learning the story of how they developed it at Skunk Works. Funniest part is that the plane was really unstable, but they just decided to use a computer system to basically force it to behave by constant microadjusting of the steering surfaces.
Try modifying the shape of the folds and hollows in your ear with putty. The pinna folds allow you pinpoint sounds. Also test up and down locating with and without ear pinna modification.
I think you will have some great results with a visually impaired and blind using the Manbat 9000. There are a few people who use echo location already to be able to ride bicycles without sight.
I saw something similar tested in the early 80s.
A blind man was able to use it to successfully echolocate his way around a room and find people without running into walls.
The experiment should've been done with just mounted Cameras for bonus angles. Having a moving Cameraman ruined a lot of your hard work getting results...he just kept walkign towards the moving Camera-man completely distracting him from potentially finding a moth much sooner.
Some blind people make a clicking sound with the tongue to help navigating. Pretty fascinating stuff!
The constructive and destructive interference patterns that you talked about with starlink and what not is also how the F-35 radar scans specific points allowing it to stay stealthy while the radar is doing its radar things
i would absolutely love to see this developed into a visual aid for the blind! years ago i was experimenting with this concept, but lost track and momentum, but it still lingers in my mind as a truly good aid!