Best Australian inventions: wifi, the black box flight recorder, the cochlear implant, penicillin, our polymer bank notes. Lots of good stuff from a small nation.
stump jump plough! electric gun, ( not taser, rapid firing bullet gun, offered to US army, didn't want it), kangaroo cranes ( an American liked it, but then improved the design a bit, then patented it, etc etc Mostly Aussie inventors can't get govt or enough private investment in their inventions, so smart entrepreneurs overseas buy it.
@@Squashed8Ball It was a Brit Alexander Fleming who discovered penicillin, but it was Australian scientist Howard Florey who converted it to medicinal use in the 1940s. Florey's work earned him the Nobel Prize.
The Melbourne ones have that mechanical sound that seems dominant in this video but pretty much everywhere else has the Dup, Dup, Due Dooka Dooka Dooka Dooka sound like in the song. It’s an outrage that the video presenter chose not to address this. An outrage I tell you
I haven't even heard the one he had in the video, this is despicable and as a representative of the aussie community I pass this man onto the Asian community.
That is exactly what I was thinking when I heard the first crossing sound. Similar, but not right, and then Billie Eilish's one I was like "yeah, that's it." So strange that he chose that sound and not the normal one haha
Yes, I used to have a pug that waited at the crossing, but then went nuts to cross when she heard the change in sound. It was good to watch the drivers and other pedestrians point and laugh at her attempt to cross the road as fast as possible when she reacted to the crossing sound.
The button has a very satisfying "clunk" when pressed and it's design allows for it to be hit hard and rapidly repeatedly without damaging it. It's common to find people at crossings that instead of pressing the button once, they take out their frustration at having to wait for the lights to change by smacking the button several times. Most are positioned at just the right height that an average sized adult can press it with their elbow, knee, or even kick it if they can raise their foot high enough. It's also very slightly concave, so it can be pressed with an umbrella or walking stick, the concave allowing the item to slip to the centre of the button rather than slip off of it when pushed. Singapore uses the same buttons, but they added an extra box with an extra feature that allows people with mobility issues in some selected areas to scan a card that will make the crossing lights stay on longer for them to have more time to cross. Australia doesn't do that, but where roads are wide and more time is needed for such people to cross, there's an island in the middle of the road with another button that they can stop at safely and wait for the next cycle to finish crossing.
Also every single kid will want to "push the button" which is basically hitting it a bunch of times. The ones in Perth city don't make clicks, they make the same sound as Billie's phone ones.
@@jessbellis9510 The older ones make the click, the newer ones make the sound in Billie's phone, we have both in Brisbane, and used to have both in Sydney back in the 90's. The older ones used more power to make the sound because it was an electromechanical device vs the newer ones being a speaker and generated tone.
It's not just the fast beat. There's an initial split second sound for walking before the fast beat that sounds like something like Star Wars laser gun. You hear it on Billie's phone.
One of the best inventions to come out of Australia is the Cochlear Implant. It’s gone worldwide and has helped millions of people hear! Another one that has also gone worldwide but is a minor thing is the word “selfie”, which may have begun on Rottnest Island because of the thousands of photos taken with the Quokkas who live there and many visiting celebrities have taken advantage of the very cute opportunity!
The cochlear implant had interesting launch plan. It wasn’t launched in Australia. Australians could afford the unit cost but the population of the needy was too small to recover ROI. China, back then, had many needy, but the needy couldn’t couldn’t afford the units. So, Cochlear launched, offshore, in the United States, as a Born Global Company.
The one billie eilish sampled is a slightly different design. The one that the guy in the video showed, is the original, and uses a physical hammer and metal bell to make the noise, these are fairly uncommon nowadays, and as far as i know, melbourne is the last place to have them. The one billie eilish uses is the newer one that uses a speaker, and synthesised sound, hence the difference noise. The rest of it is the same though, with there usually being a piece of the tactile arrow vibrating rather strongly. The best part of the sound, that you can hear on Billie's phone, is when it changes from waiting (the slow beeps) to the cross now sound (fast beeps) the transition, of like Beewyoooopp dut dut dut is the best part our crossings IMO. You can hear it on her phone at 6:59 (just after she says I was not prepared for this part)
The indent on the raised/embossed arrow has its own pulse, almost like an electric shock, but not quite (of course). Its handy for deaf people who may not be able to hear the "bups - pew! boo-boop boo-boop booboobooboobooboo" especially during, say, peak hour. Awesome invention!
The ones in Sydney sound like the one on Billie's phone. I think Julian is in Melbourne. You should do more Australian inventions. We're pretty clever down here... ✌️
The buttons for the crossings in Singapore are similar but, they tell you how many seconds are left to complete your crossing, they also have a card reader where senior citizens or people with a disability can scan their seniors or disabled pass and the time to cross is increased by 15 seconds. There are also speed humps when approaching crossings forcing cars to slow down.
We have the seconds remaining in NSW too, they've become much more common over the last few years, most busy intersections in the city CBD and Wollongong CBD have them.
Some crosswalks now have also a count down timer under the walk figures so you know how much time you have before light goes green. Plus if you start walking after red shows you can get a fine.
This was great during Covid because of the round shape you can use your elbows quite easily and the new ones tend to make beeps from speakers rather then the mechanical clicking
@@esmeraldagreengate4354 right, but not in the context he’s using it, as a greeting: We wouldn’t walk into a friends house and them say to us “good arvo” in the same context as “good morning” or “good evening” We say it in reference to the afternoon to come, or an afternoon so far For example “have a good arvo” or “how’s your arvo been?”
Well, when those automated checkout consoles at the supermarket say "Thank You for shopping at Coles" I always reply "Oh, you're welcome." But you're right, I _)don't_ say afternoon.
The reason the sound is different is that the ones he was recording are older mechanical models, the one Billie Eilish had on her phone is a much newer model. Most places in Sydney use the updated model.
We have the same in New Zealand. Down in a newish subdivision there are blocks of apartments by these crosswalks. When you push the buzzers I swear it's so loud it's like Starwars! The volume they are demonstrating here is quiet.
Coz we Melburnians being the centre of the universe don't need those ridiculous gadgets . lol. These larger pedestrian buttons were originally designed for fear of Aids back in late 80s.
I live in Sydney and our crossings don’t sound like that Melbourne one, ours has more of a tune to it, like the one on Billy’s phone, not just metallic rattling.
Yeah the older ones have the mechanical rapping sound, and those are rare these days. I dont think I have memories with the old type since the mid nineties in Brisbane. Most of them around the country are the revised type with an electronically synthesised beep. Same intonation, just with beeps instead of taps.
The clicking sound for vision impaired helps them not only know WHEN to cross but where to go. The sound deminishes as they walk away from the edge of the road and increases as the approach the opposite side of the road so they have an audioable guide when crossing.
Not sure about the rest of Australia but here in Perth's CBD we have some crossing buttons with sensors so you just need to wave your hand across it sans contact and it will light up as green if it senses your hand.
It's interesting to actually learn other countries have different sounds for it. I'm Australian so this sound is pretty normal. I was actually pretty surprised finding out the US doesn't have any sounds (to my knowledge?) and other countries have different ones.
I'm so addicted to watching your videos for some reason 🤣 But I wanted to say, but every episode I do debate with myself if you are using "arvo" correctly. We do use arvo as a short version of afternoon... But we don't say "Good arvo", it is more used when we are referring to the time of day - This arvo, tomorrow arvo, how was your arvo... Etc. It is funny none the less when you say it. Keep up the great vids, love it!
As we say ‘do yourself a favour!’ You gotta watch Aussie classic ‘The Castle’ classic movie encapsulates the Aussie vernacular plus spirit of mateship and support of the underdog
They sound differently around Australia. In Tassie, they quietly go 'blip' every couple of seconds when it's not safe to cross, then rappidly go 'beep-beep-beep-beep-beep-beep' when it is safe.
I first came across this type of crossing in Hong Kong. It’s very intuitive to use, and even though I’m not visually impaired the clicking sounds for crossing are very helpful.
7:00 Thats the sound in Syndey which is in the state of NSW. The sound being shown in the video is in Melbourne which is in the state of Victoria. Two different sounds so you are right the NSW one is better in my opinion.
You are so nice and kind to us Aussies that when you do come over, I bet people would like to host you and your family in every city. I live in Bundaberg Queensland the home of Bundy Rum. We are mostly a very friendly bunch, and you would understand us right from the start and not be surprised by our dirty mouths etc. You are most welcome here anytime. If I ever went to America, I would love to meet you, but America and Americans scare some of us. Definitely me. I'm not used to all the violence. I would be scared to go anywhere. I mean no offence to you or your country as a whole. Obviously not all of us feel that way.
I live on the sunny coast, and we didn’t do any fancy solutions for avoiding pressing the button during covid times. they just put a sticker on the button saying to press it with your elbow. most people don’t, though.
There are a few different mechanisms in Australia but the PB/5 style are the most popular. The more mechanical which you heard in the first iirc is the first series but the ones with the polyphonic beeping is the second series which made it even more defined.
The need this in Hong Kong! The noise from the crosswalks is soooo loud and grating, jack-hammer like. I think you'll find the crosswalks don't all sound exactly the same in Aust.
Australian inventors also created the cochlear implant - or bionic ear, and the Gardasil and Cervarix vaccinations that protect against certain types of cancer-causing HPV. Australian scientist David Warren is best know for inventing the flight data recorder and cockpit voice recorder, also known as "the black box", other Australian inventions; Google maps, The Ultrasound, Wi-Fi, The pacemaker. Just to name some of the great things Aussie's have given the world.
Those raised dots are mostly for blind people using a cane to feel where the crossing is without getting too close to the road. We have them on train platforms too. But they do benefit people on their phones. It really shows how inclusive society can be when the right people come together to ensure inclusivity. I hope the design is adopted in many other places 😊
This crossing system is really amazing. Go Aussie Go. I must say, you were really negative about this at the beginning. I am really happy that you realised near the end that it is really outstanding. I have travelled to many countries and this really needs to be adopted everywhere in the world. You MUST admit, you were finally impressed. It is excellent.
An Australian would never say “good arvo Mates”. G’day mate to one person but never mates to more than one Arvo refers to afternoon as in this arvo or tomorrow arvo but not good arvo.
Yeah, my thoughts exactly. The way you are saying it is just weird. We would say ' have a good arvo , mate'. Mates is never plural the way you are using it. You would be better off saying 'Gidday'. Or ' Mates, have I got an arvo for you!'
RYAN!!! I have commented on SO many of your videos to tell you that we don't say aRvo, we say aHvo.. the R is silent. It just drills into my spine every time you say aRvo like an AMERICAN. Come ooon, you can DO iitt!! Haapy ahvo mate! :)
Personally, I did enjoy the crossings (think it was in Moscow) where you get a large timer that tells how long before the light turns green, and then how long before it turns back to red. That way you can immediately know if you need to hurry to the crossing or not. And if you can slowly stroll across or have to hustle.
I love hook turns 😎 And modern day power board invention I still have a kambrook load centre. Commonly known as a power board. It’s a 5 plug power board Australian made way back in the early 80s from father. It’s serial model is Cat P.B.5 Still going strong 💪 Hasn’t burned out at all Been through many cheaply made others over the years
Had no idea that the bumps on the ground for the blind flash in Melbourne! I'm from Brisbane (3rd biggest city in Australia), and I've never seen that, EVER! What a shock!
The one Billie played is the original sound, it’s a beep not a percussive sound, trust me I’ve used them enough and they scared me as a kid 😂 I don’t know where they got the other recoding from 🤷🏼♀️
In different places in Australia i believe they have different crosswalk sounds, cause where i live the cross walk is the same except it sounds more beepier, like a beep instead of like a broken shopping trolley...More like the Billie Eilish sound through her phone.
There’s a better version of the sound that uses more beeping over the clanking. Exceptionally iconic and I miss it when visiting other countries. Just search for “Sydney pedestrian crossing sound”
Yeah the Sydney buttons sound so much better. It has a loud POW! Which sort of sounds like “go!” I read somewhere that the actual sensor only works on Sundays
The only trap is if there are two sets of crossings near each other. I've seen people hear the beeping and head off to cross the street not realising/paying attention to the fact it was the other nearby crossing that is sounding off.
Amazingly, the sounds in this case will be syncopated so that no resonance amplification or sound bleed will occur. You can *always* tell which pedestrian button is making what sound even when surrounded by several.
The button is just a placebo . It's all connected to the traffic light program. The sound and the green walk icon tell you it is safe to cross ( if you're fast enough ) , pushing the button does nothing other than to give you a sense of control .
The ones in Queensland work very similarly but sound very different. It's more like beeps or mini siren whoops at the same rates as the clicks of these ones (slow and low for stop, fast and higher pitched for go). Edit: Should've finished the video :P the one Billy Eilish recorded was the same as Queensland's.
You know what's the diff between ozzie crosswalks and usa one? Usa one give us time to walk, it counts down to how much time we have left, china and i think taiwan (can't remember) also have this feature. In Australia it goes red when you're halfway across and you pretty much have to scramble to get off the road lest you annoy the drivers and one of them decide to run you over. Like whyM
We also invented WI-Fi, the half flush toilet system and the hills hoist clothesline I believe- both of which are cool for their own reasons!🤷♀️ Edit: apparently the first full length feature film AND the precursor to the television!🤷♀️👍🏻
Sort of. Not wifi persey but they Invented a method of sorting multiple radio data packets and parity checked recombination. The dual flush toilets seem great. But over time will often leak, causing higher water use over a 5 year span. This is the reason many other countries haven't adopted the dual flush system. Hills hoist are great, but it's just a metal tree with four regular clotheslines attached perpendicular to one another.. Fun to swing on, not that impressive as an invention. The best thing Australia "invented" was arriving at a large continent being an island. No land borders = no riff raff. Bwahahahah
@@itadaku23according to a quick search it was many people who were working on wifi but it was the Australian team that was the quickest and had the best idea apparently. So all in all it was a combined effort with Australia taking the lead
Yer the crossing sounds in Melbourne are like the sound in Julian’s video - and the rest of Australia sounds like the recording Billie has non her phone.
Mine in rural nsw has a different sound, a slow regular bip, a little trill then the thing turns green and it gives a fast beep, beep, beep then a slower beep on the red and back to the routine beep
Hi.. People very regularly cross roads with their heads looking down at their mobile phones... A smile and oo ooh( or similar) has them look up before they walk into the person walking in the opposite direction... No...I am not joking... :-) Semi disabled ones,older ones etc can't dodge them fast enough and so let them know to look up..
Useless Fact: The sounds are actually in three stages. Wait, transition and cross. There is also no physical buttons or springs in the housing. The button floats on a sliding shaft and magnets offer the button an initial resistance when pressed before sliding in on its shaft. A change in magnetism of this action triggers an electronic reed switch initiating the request to cross.
Best Australian inventions: wifi, the black box flight recorder, the cochlear implant, penicillin, our polymer bank notes. Lots of good stuff from a small nation.
I know the person who’s great-grandpa invented the black box and yep I live in Australia
stump jump plough! electric gun, ( not taser, rapid firing bullet gun, offered to US army, didn't want it), kangaroo cranes ( an American liked it, but then improved the design a bit, then patented it, etc etc
Mostly Aussie inventors can't get govt or enough private investment in their inventions, so smart entrepreneurs overseas buy it.
Penicillin? Are you sure that was an Australian’s invention?
@@Squashed8Ball yes it was look it up
@@Squashed8Ball It was a Brit Alexander Fleming who discovered penicillin, but it was Australian scientist Howard Florey who converted it to medicinal use in the 1940s. Florey's work earned him the Nobel Prize.
The Melbourne ones have that mechanical sound that seems dominant in this video but pretty much everywhere else has the Dup, Dup, Due Dooka Dooka Dooka Dooka sound like in the song. It’s an outrage that the video presenter chose not to address this. An outrage I tell you
Yeah, that's what I'm more familiar with.
Agreed!
I haven't even heard the one he had in the video, this is despicable and as a representative of the aussie community I pass this man onto the Asian community.
Was looking for someone to mention this
That is exactly what I was thinking when I heard the first crossing sound. Similar, but not right, and then Billie Eilish's one I was like "yeah, that's it." So strange that he chose that sound and not the normal one haha
My dog taught himself the sounds. He sits on the slow beeps and then crosses the road when the sound quickens.
has he figured out how to press the button as well? I guess it depends how big a dog he is?
Yes, I used to have a pug that waited at the crossing, but then went nuts to cross when she heard the change in sound. It was good to watch the drivers and other pedestrians point and laugh at her attempt to cross the road as fast as possible when she reacted to the crossing sound.
As an Australian I think our polymer bank notes and the Black Box Recorder used on aeroplanes are the best.
and Wifi lol
@@michaelshort2388 Nah, ethernet works
Umm... The Hills Hoist? Yep, that's THE best invention of all time! Goon-bag comes second!
Everyone beats the crap outta those buttons. Never seen a broken lol. Strong AF.
Definitely not made in China
The button has a very satisfying "clunk" when pressed and it's design allows for it to be hit hard and rapidly repeatedly without damaging it. It's common to find people at crossings that instead of pressing the button once, they take out their frustration at having to wait for the lights to change by smacking the button several times. Most are positioned at just the right height that an average sized adult can press it with their elbow, knee, or even kick it if they can raise their foot high enough. It's also very slightly concave, so it can be pressed with an umbrella or walking stick, the concave allowing the item to slip to the centre of the button rather than slip off of it when pushed. Singapore uses the same buttons, but they added an extra box with an extra feature that allows people with mobility issues in some selected areas to scan a card that will make the crossing lights stay on longer for them to have more time to cross. Australia doesn't do that, but where roads are wide and more time is needed for such people to cross, there's an island in the middle of the road with another button that they can stop at safely and wait for the next cycle to finish crossing.
I always roll my eyes when I see people pressing it repeatedly.
I'm sorry but if you haven't given that button a decent couple of slaps are you even trying to cross the street?
In Holland they added bikes as well
Also every single kid will want to "push the button" which is basically hitting it a bunch of times. The ones in Perth city don't make clicks, they make the same sound as Billie's phone ones.
@@jessbellis9510 The older ones make the click, the newer ones make the sound in Billie's phone, we have both in Brisbane, and used to have both in Sydney back in the 90's. The older ones used more power to make the sound because it was an electromechanical device vs the newer ones being a speaker and generated tone.
It's not just the fast beat. There's an initial split second sound for walking before the fast beat that sounds like something like Star Wars laser gun. You hear it on Billie's phone.
Yes, I love the screech
Yep sounds like a laser blast
We have that in Canberra.
One of the best inventions to come out of Australia is the Cochlear Implant. It’s gone worldwide and has helped millions of people hear! Another one that has also gone worldwide but is a minor thing is the word “selfie”, which may have begun on Rottnest Island because of the thousands of photos taken with the Quokkas who live there and many visiting celebrities have taken advantage of the very cute opportunity!
The cochlear implant had interesting launch plan. It wasn’t launched in Australia. Australians could afford the unit cost but the population of the needy was too small to recover ROI. China, back then, had many needy, but the needy couldn’t couldn’t afford the units. So, Cochlear launched, offshore, in the United States, as a Born Global Company.
Personally I like Wi-Fi.
And the Hills Hoist lol
I was taught to hit the button with my bag or my elbow. Even pre-covid Mum was a germaphobe.
A told my children to do that too
I use my foot. It's something I started doing for fun as a teenager, and it's now force of habit.
The one billie eilish sampled is a slightly different design. The one that the guy in the video showed, is the original, and uses a physical hammer and metal bell to make the noise, these are fairly uncommon nowadays, and as far as i know, melbourne is the last place to have them. The one billie eilish uses is the newer one that uses a speaker, and synthesised sound, hence the difference noise. The rest of it is the same though, with there usually being a piece of the tactile arrow vibrating rather strongly.
The best part of the sound, that you can hear on Billie's phone, is when it changes from waiting (the slow beeps) to the cross now sound (fast beeps) the transition, of like Beewyoooopp dut dut dut is the best part our crossings IMO. You can hear it on her phone at 6:59 (just after she says I was not prepared for this part)
@@llamatronique
Full on mate, that is brilliant ! Thanks for sharing.
I’m in Adelaide and they sound exactly how Billie heard them. But the ones in Melbourne are as you say, mechanical sounding”
Adelaide here too :)
I live in nsw and they are like Billie heard them here too
The indent on the raised/embossed arrow has its own pulse, almost like an electric shock, but not quite (of course).
Its handy for deaf people who may not be able to hear the "bups - pew! boo-boop boo-boop booboobooboobooboo" especially during, say, peak hour.
Awesome invention!
The ones in Sydney sound like the one on Billie's phone. I think Julian is in Melbourne. You should do more Australian inventions. We're pretty clever down here... ✌️
The ones in Adelaide sound the same as Billie's phone too.
don't give him too much false hope XD
The first time I went to Melbourne I thought all the crossing buttons were broken 🤦♀️
The sound has changed over time in. Melbourne, the newer ones should like the song…
The buttons for the crossings in Singapore are similar but, they tell you how many seconds are left to complete your crossing, they also have a card reader where senior citizens or people with a disability can scan their seniors or disabled pass and the time to cross is increased by 15 seconds. There are also speed humps when approaching crossings forcing cars to slow down.
Signapore's ones actually sound better then.
We have the seconds remaining in NSW too, they've become much more common over the last few years, most busy intersections in the city CBD and Wollongong CBD have them.
Some crosswalks now have also a count down timer under the walk figures so you know how much time you have before light goes green. Plus if you start walking after red shows you can get a fine.
I love Julian O'Shea. He has a bunch of interesting and informative videos about Australia, and Melbourne in particular.
This was great during Covid because of the round shape you can use your elbows quite easily and the new ones tend to make beeps from speakers rather then the mechanical clicking
Lol saying “good afternoon” is about the only time an Aussie WONT use arvo instead of afternoon
We say have a good arvo in the country.
@@esmeraldagreengate4354 yeh but never good arvo by itself.
@@esmeraldagreengate4354 right, but not in the context he’s using it, as a greeting:
We wouldn’t walk into a friends house and them say to us “good arvo” in the same context as “good morning” or “good evening”
We say it in reference to the afternoon to come, or an afternoon so far
For example “have a good arvo” or “how’s your arvo been?”
Well, when those automated checkout consoles at the supermarket say "Thank You for shopping at Coles" I always reply "Oh, you're welcome." But you're right, I _)don't_ say afternoon.
@@itadaku23
You talk to checkout registers?
What's your secret, Iwant to get friendly with my local ATM!
I’m from Adelaide ours sound like Sydney. I touch the box just for the feeling & I’m not blind.
Ryan, I love your reactions.
The Sydney ones sound so much better than Melbourne ones.
The reason the sound is different is that the ones he was recording are older mechanical models, the one Billie Eilish had on her phone is a much newer model.
Most places in Sydney use the updated model.
Thank you for taking the time to react to things Australian!
We have the same in New Zealand. Down in a newish subdivision there are blocks of apartments by these crosswalks. When you push the buzzers I swear it's so loud it's like Starwars! The volume they are demonstrating here is quiet.
The reason the one on billies phone sounded different is because it’s Sydney’s crosswalk not Melbourne’s, as per usual Sydney is better :))
Better at playing throw ball
Eye roll from Brisbane :)
Coz we Melburnians being the centre of the universe don't need those ridiculous gadgets . lol. These larger pedestrian buttons were originally designed for fear of Aids back in late 80s.
Yep lol
Melbourne has the digital ones too 🙄
I live in Sydney and our crossings don’t sound like that Melbourne one, ours has more of a tune to it, like the one on Billy’s phone, not just metallic rattling.
Yep they are different
Perth's are also more like "doot doot doot doot..." and some of the newer panels have contactless sensors next to the button.
Yeah the older ones have the mechanical rapping sound, and those are rare these days. I dont think I have memories with the old type since the mid nineties in Brisbane. Most of them around the country are the revised type with an electronically synthesised beep. Same intonation, just with beeps instead of taps.
The clicking sound for vision impaired helps them not only know WHEN to cross but where to go. The sound deminishes as they walk away from the edge of the road and increases as the approach the opposite side of the road so they have an audioable guide when crossing.
Not sure about the rest of Australia but here in Perth's CBD we have some crossing buttons with sensors so you just need to wave your hand across it sans contact and it will light up as green if it senses your hand.
Yeah Melbourne has the same, I think I've seen them most at tram crossings.
What you hear on Billie's phone is the exact sound of a crossing. I never noticed it in the song before, but now I can hear it clearly!
It's interesting to actually learn other countries have different sounds for it. I'm Australian so this sound is pretty normal. I was actually pretty surprised finding out the US doesn't have any sounds (to my knowledge?) and other countries have different ones.
I'm so addicted to watching your videos for some reason 🤣
But I wanted to say, but every episode I do debate with myself if you are using "arvo" correctly. We do use arvo as a short version of afternoon... But we don't say "Good arvo", it is more used when we are referring to the time of day - This arvo, tomorrow arvo, how was your arvo... Etc. It is funny none the less when you say it. Keep up the great vids, love it!
As we say ‘do yourself a favour!’ You gotta watch Aussie classic ‘The Castle’ classic movie encapsulates the Aussie vernacular plus spirit of mateship and support of the underdog
They sound differently around Australia. In Tassie, they quietly go 'blip' every couple of seconds when it's not safe to cross, then rappidly go 'beep-beep-beep-beep-beep-beep' when it is safe.
I first came across this type of crossing in Hong Kong. It’s very intuitive to use, and even though I’m not visually impaired the clicking sounds for crossing are very helpful.
7:00 Thats the sound in Syndey which is in the state of NSW. The sound being shown in the video is in Melbourne which is in the state of Victoria.
Two different sounds so you are right the NSW one is better in my opinion.
One thing not mentioned is the fast pinging sound bounces between both sides of the street so the blind can hear the exact location of the other side.
You are so nice and kind to us Aussies that when you do come over, I bet people would like to host you and your family in every city. I live in Bundaberg Queensland the home of Bundy Rum. We are mostly a very friendly bunch, and you would understand us right from the start and not be surprised by our dirty mouths etc. You are most welcome here anytime. If I ever went to America, I would love to meet you, but America and Americans scare some of us. Definitely me. I'm not used to all the violence. I would be scared to go anywhere. I mean no offence to you or your country as a whole. Obviously not all of us feel that way.
I live on the sunny coast, and we didn’t do any fancy solutions for avoiding pressing the button during covid times. they just put a sticker on the button saying to press it with your elbow. most people don’t, though.
We also have a lot of traffic light crosswalks where you can cross a street diagonally. Instead of crossing twice to get the opposite corner
In Perth (and probably elsewhere) we now have ones you can just wave your hand in front of so you don't need to be touching the button.
There are a few different mechanisms in Australia but the PB/5 style are the most popular. The more mechanical which you heard in the first iirc is the first series but the ones with the polyphonic beeping is the second series which made it even more defined.
The need this in Hong Kong! The noise from the crosswalks is soooo loud and grating, jack-hammer like. I think you'll find the crosswalks don't all sound exactly the same in Aust.
👏👏👏Finally you said
Good Avo
instead of happy arvo.
No one says happy arvo in Australia.
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Australian inventors also created the cochlear implant - or bionic ear, and the Gardasil and Cervarix vaccinations that protect against certain types of cancer-causing HPV. Australian scientist David Warren is best know for inventing the flight data recorder and cockpit voice recorder, also known as "the black box", other Australian inventions; Google maps, The Ultrasound, Wi-Fi, The pacemaker. Just to name some of the great things Aussie's have given the world.
Those raised dots are mostly for blind people using a cane to feel where the crossing is without getting too close to the road. We have them on train platforms too. But they do benefit people on their phones. It really shows how inclusive society can be when the right people come together to ensure inclusivity. I hope the design is adopted in many other places 😊
This crossing system is really amazing. Go Aussie Go. I must say, you were really negative about this at the beginning. I am really happy that you realised near the end that it is really outstanding. I have travelled to many countries and this really needs to be adopted everywhere in the world. You MUST admit, you were finally impressed. It is excellent.
I don’t about elsewhere but Victorian ped crossing sounds are more of a beep and have a nice sound when the light goes from red to green
An Australian would never say “good arvo Mates”. G’day mate to one person but never mates to more than one Arvo refers to afternoon as in this arvo or tomorrow arvo but not good arvo.
Yeah, my thoughts exactly. The way you are saying it is just weird. We would say ' have a good arvo , mate'. Mates is never plural the way you are using it. You would be better off saying 'Gidday'. Or ' Mates, have I got an arvo for you!'
Big props for “ giving it a go mate”. But nah yeah, it’s “g’day mate. I’m here for the arvo sesh. “
So cute hearing Americans try Aussie❣️
@@TheFinnola not cute just cringe worthy
It's a complicated language we have . Simplicity is best a simple G,Day
I think it cool! I'm using it! Good arvo to you👍
RYAN!!! I have commented on SO many of your videos to tell you that we don't say aRvo, we say aHvo.. the R is silent. It just drills into my spine every time you say aRvo like an AMERICAN. Come ooon, you can DO iitt!! Haapy ahvo mate! :)
The bit coming through Billie’s phone was what it normally sounds like.
Best design to come out of Australia is our bank notes, especially the new ones. Absolutely state of the art.
We're pretty country. I always considered it a help to show me what to do when in a big city
One is Victoria, the one the singer used was Sydney
Personally, I did enjoy the crossings (think it was in Moscow) where you get a large timer that tells how long before the light turns green, and then how long before it turns back to red. That way you can immediately know if you need to hurry to the crossing or not. And if you can slowly stroll across or have to hustle.
I love hook turns 😎
And modern day power board invention
I still have a kambrook load centre. Commonly known as a power board.
It’s a 5 plug power board Australian made way back in the early 80s from father.
It’s serial model is
Cat P.B.5
Still going strong 💪
Hasn’t burned out at all
Been through many cheaply made others over the years
I’ve never heard one sound like that clicking. It has a very pleasant sound.
Yes, the one Billy played is the one 👍🏻
The ones in Perth do a loud beep and a soft beep in repeat when waiting the goes "PEW! boo-boo boo-boo boo-boo boo-boo" when ready to cross
Imagine living next to a pedestrian cross walk and you hear that all the time.
This was fantastic during Covid, you could press it with your keys instead of touching it with your fingers where others have touched! 👍
The glide scope, ILS, used at every airport for safe landings.
Australian design Nirvana, mounting the crossing button on a Hills Hoist thats drying your freshy laundered bank notes 😂
Yeah the fast ticking noise makes you walk fast when that noise stops means get the fu k of the road
It's an odd sound so that it can't be confused for other things
The sound that the woman showed on her phone is the noise that I'm used to but other states and territories could be different.
Jaws of life is an Aussie invention
You were quick Ryan, clever.
Had no idea that the bumps on the ground for the blind flash in Melbourne! I'm from Brisbane (3rd biggest city in Australia), and I've never seen that, EVER! What a shock!
The Ute and the fridge is the best thing to come out of Australia I think
Not the goon bag and the hills hoist? 🤣
The one Billie played is the original sound, it’s a beep not a percussive sound, trust me I’ve used them enough and they scared me as a kid 😂 I don’t know where they got the other recoding from 🤷🏼♀️
Around me (in Adelaide), there are some that have senses that detect your hand if it's 3-5cm away from the button, hence not making you touch it.
The sound from billies phone is the one mostly used ive never heard the other one lmao
We don’t say good arvo. Sorry. You made me smile saying that.
I never realised it was so special 😆
We have the same pedestrian crossing buttons in ireland for many years
In different places in Australia i believe they have different crosswalk sounds, cause where i live the cross walk is the same except it sounds more beepier, like a beep instead of like a broken shopping trolley...More like the Billie Eilish sound through her phone.
There’s a better version of the sound that uses more beeping over the clanking. Exceptionally iconic and I miss it when visiting other countries.
Just search for “Sydney pedestrian crossing sound”
Brisbane also has how many seconds left to walk beside the flashing red and green man. That was interesting 👍
"Is this the best designed thing to ever come out of Australia?"
No, but as a civil engineer, to me it's the coolest for sure
No like just moved to Victoria from the states and I noticed this right off the bat 😂
Yeah the Sydney buttons sound so much better. It has a loud POW! Which sort of sounds like “go!”
I read somewhere that the actual sensor only works on Sundays
The only trap is if there are two sets of crossings near each other. I've seen people hear the beeping and head off to cross the street not realising/paying attention to the fact it was the other nearby crossing that is sounding off.
Amazingly, the sounds in this case will be syncopated so that no resonance amplification or sound bleed will occur. You can *always* tell which pedestrian button is making what sound even when surrounded by several.
The button is just a placebo . It's all connected to the traffic light program. The sound and the green walk icon tell you it is safe to cross ( if you're fast enough ) , pushing the button does nothing other than to give you a sense of control .
Of course, it only turns green if you *do* press it, saying this from personal experience.
Ryan, Good arvo mates isn’t something we say. G’day mate.
One of our best inventions -the goon bag.
We Aussies are an innovative bunch! ;-)
The ones in Queensland work very similarly but sound very different. It's more like beeps or mini siren whoops at the same rates as the clicks of these ones (slow and low for stop, fast and higher pitched for go).
Edit: Should've finished the video :P the one Billy Eilish recorded was the same as Queensland's.
I always thought all traffic lights around the world were like this lol
You know what's the diff between ozzie crosswalks and usa one? Usa one give us time to walk, it counts down to how much time we have left, china and i think taiwan (can't remember) also have this feature. In Australia it goes red when you're halfway across and you pretty much have to scramble to get off the road lest you annoy the drivers and one of them decide to run you over. Like whyM
You can hit that button hard and often. It's nice and big. We take them for granted.
When I first heard a cross walk button in Australia I was looking around for a wood pecker 😂
I’ve literally never thought of it at all..? I’m Australian..,who’s ever thought about our crosswalk button?
I remember when these buttons replaces the old black plastic ones that were often broken, these were a huge upgrade (yeah I'm old I know)
zchoom tututututututututu is how it sounds in brisbane. exactly what Billie played on her phone.
We also invented WI-Fi, the half flush toilet system and the hills hoist clothesline I believe- both of which are cool for their own reasons!🤷♀️
Edit: apparently the first full length feature film AND the precursor to the television!🤷♀️👍🏻
Sort of. Not wifi persey but they Invented a method of sorting multiple radio data packets and parity checked recombination.
The dual flush toilets seem great. But over time will often leak, causing higher water use over a 5 year span. This is the reason many other countries haven't adopted the dual flush system.
Hills hoist are great, but it's just a metal tree with four regular clotheslines attached perpendicular to one another.. Fun to swing on, not that impressive as an invention.
The best thing Australia "invented" was arriving at a large continent being an island. No land borders = no riff raff. Bwahahahah
The reason a lot of people don't know Australia invented these things is other countries like to steal our ideas and claim they thought it up lol
Goon bags!
@@itadaku23according to a quick search it was many people who were working on wifi but it was the Australian team that was the quickest and had the best idea apparently. So all in all it was a combined effort with Australia taking the lead
Yer the crossing sounds in Melbourne are like the sound in Julian’s video - and the rest of Australia sounds like the recording Billie has non her phone.
i am also talking about the pb/ 5 pedestran button in crosswork in australia rah was
Mine in rural nsw has a different sound, a slow regular bip, a little trill then the thing turns green and it gives a fast beep, beep, beep then a slower beep on the red and back to the routine beep
czcams.com/video/B0cz1XW9QvE/video.html more like this
we have a slight variation of this in New Zealand with a different sound and no light on the button side.
sound difference could just be due to recording in this video and other environment stuff
The clicks sound different in each city, in canberra its like boop boop boop
WTH! :D 2 of my fav CZcamsrs in the same vid and looking at my fav city Melbourne ... Nicesssssssssss!
Things I didnt know take 4 granted 🤙🇦🇺
Hi..
People very regularly cross roads with their heads looking down at their mobile phones...
A smile and oo ooh( or similar) has them look up before they walk into the person walking in the opposite direction...
No...I am not joking...
:-)
Semi disabled ones,older ones etc can't dodge them fast enough and so let them know to look up..
Useless Fact: The sounds are actually in three stages. Wait, transition and cross. There is also no physical buttons or springs in the housing. The button floats on a sliding shaft and magnets offer the button an initial resistance when pressed before sliding in on its shaft. A change in magnetism of this action triggers an electronic reed switch initiating the request to cross.
His version sounds like a bloody jackhammer when it sounds more like a drum machine