Sonic Eye Brings Echolocation to Humans

Feb-10-15 By mimicking the echolocation of bats, the Sonic Eye helmet could offer a new and more nuanced way to help the visually-impaired navigate their environment.

The Sonic Eye helmet is equipped with a speaker that emits ultrasonic chirps, and a pair of 'pinna' on each side embedded with an ultrasonic microphone. As the chirps rebound off objects, the sound waves enter the pinna and a computer program slows the waves by a factor of 20. Slowing the waves allows them to be audible to the human ear, which can in turn enable the user to track their surroundings by sound.

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