In one of the dumbest inventions I've ever seen, the musical soccer ball takes the checkered flag.
"Musician and inventor Aleksei R. Stevens has created a concept product called the SoundBall. The SoundBall is a soccer ball that is filled with motion sensors that detect when the ball is being rolled, dropped, kicked, or spun. The motion data is then transmitted over Bluetooth to a local computer that bleeps out corresponding electronic noises."
I don't even want to know how it works!
Leap for the details, if you care. [Crave]
4 comments:
I hate to have a different opinion; but don't you thing the ball making particular sounds depending if it's being brought down the pitch, or being kicked hard, or left or right along with ball rotation might help people who are blind?
Many other sports are made possible for blind players like Baseball and softball. It's amazing how they can adapt thier hearing so well as to actually be able to use different sounds to be able to play!
The only problem with that theory is that the sound is coming from a near by computer, not the ball.
If you don't mind the blind people running and kicking the computer, then it's a brilliant idea.
Well now; that will teach me to pay more attention!!!
Though I would pay to see blind people running around kicking computers. Especially some of my past computers!
It's one more step beyond the Wii, and maybe the last hope for getting kids to exercise - or something designed along these lines.
So it won't help blind people - but I think it might be interesting to see it adapted for helping deaf or hearing impaired folks navigate around or something.
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