I agee - looks more like the Nite Owl from the Watchmen ... or Arthur from the tick.

redfood

THIS GIVES STEAMPUNK A BAD NAME

christophski

i haz podracing goggles. lets go podracing. NOW!

CarrollArion

Yeah, I can imagine some applications to that... but I have no idea where he saw "batman" on that. Like someone already said, looks more like Nite Owl from Watchmen or something...

Bokusatsu_Tenshi

Hey, these would be really useful, if you put them on the back of an SUV, so you know when your about to hit something, oh wait.. they already have those.

graffiksguru

i love the looks of em...but was hoping they would use sound to see objects just like bats do.

jrghoull

'a bit goofy'? Uhm, how about a LOT goofy?

keene

@Evan394: incidentally YOU can pick up a dictionary, dumbass

Evan394

@frigg: incedentally you can pick up a dispenser on my ebay page.

Evan394

@froggy:

I think the goggles are basically acting as a blindfold, so you can only use the echolocation feature for detecting objects.

InsaneGain

Oops -- forgot to say that it was designed to give blind people information about their environment.

GeekChick

A much smaller and more sophisticated device called the Sonic Torch was developed 45 years ago in New Zealand by Dr. Leslie Kay.

GeekChick

Given that his instructables page starts with a tantalizing "Wish you were bat?" and halloween is almost half a year away, I think I'll wait for version 2, which will likely include wings and a guano dispenser.

frigg

Batphones 2.0?

nutbastard

@froggy:

i was concerned - a dozen comments in and no one had said it.

nutbastard

@cmarsh:
Funny comment. A facetious one only a mother could love?

/welcome back.

ANoel

If this doesn't get a hot chick to fall in love with you, nothing will!

russdanger

It takes imagination and class and good manners and self-control to prevent oneself from bursting out loud laughing at someone who puts on these goggles yet takes themselves so seriously.

ANoel

@cmarsh: because nothing says sophisticated and classy like cartoonishly ridiculous looking "ultrasonic batgoggles".

this world you come from... it must be fascinating.

x23

More like, it turns you into a DORK.

Noobs-R-Us

Why even include goggles? I was hoping for something really cool like an ultra sonic sound wave derived image inside those goggles. Instead, we have beeping (i.e. not ultrasonic) and what appear to be redundant antennae and goggles...

fail.

DestroyerMTL

Hang gliding.

At night.

Make this happen.

Kaiser-Machead

THAT IS NOT COOL, SABRE. NO.

MastaFalse

Now THAT'S Podracing!

strider_mt2k

I would've put the ultrasonic stuff backwards, so I can wear the thing while biking and tell when I'm about to get rear-ended by a vehicle

wingbatwu

Wow, some commenters are really unhappy to be back at work. I thought Gizmodo was a place where we celebrated the cool if a bit goofy DIY idea?

92BuickLeSabre

Come on guys, the goggles serve a huge purpose. Now when he's walking down the street, before he smacks face first into a pole, he gets to hear obnoxious beeping (which will get everyone's attention), and look stupid in those goggles as he smacks into it. Two uses in one!

skittlzncombos

This makes him look like Briareos from Appleseed! If you were able to get longer distance range finders, numerical output for them, and add radio receivers to the antennae you'd have yourself a pretty sweet piece of kit.

otomoton

Actually those make him look like Briareos from Appleseed. If you put some more work into those, ie: numerical output range finder, longer distance range finder, and also added radio receivers to the antennae you could have yourself and interesting piece of kit.

otomoton

@thechansen: Damn iPhone and its lack of flash. So what I gather this works with audio? Congrats you just made a head mountable rear collision avoidance system. My parents Ford Edge does the same thing.

thechansen

But they are so sex-ay!

Liz99

the goggles, they do NOTHING!!!

froggy

[www.businessweek.com]

Doesn't seem like a new concept.

rurena

Dang... I was kind of hoping that a device so fugly looking would at LEAST redeem itself by having an stereoscopic viewfinder to show nearby surfaces in some shape...

But hey - maybe he´ll win some art contest somewhere.

JoOngle

if that's a parallax ultrasonic sensor you get about a use-able 2 meters. And I doubt it looks like anything similar to the scene in daredevil where its raining. It probably looks like a string of numbers that are hard to accurately gauge streaming at a rate that would probably give you a seizure.

thechansen

Ehm... what exactly do these goggles do, except bleep like mad when you hold your hand in front 'em?

Based on the description, I thought they would project a 3D image of your environment on the glasses, for like el-cheapo night vision.

Total bummer.

papaguru

great job, amazing, finally a live bumper!

Krystian Sz.

Great job, absolutely amazing. A+ from my side.

literato

we have some angry gizmos on this tuesday morning after a long weekend, but in agreement those glasses do seem a little pointless and goofy

dontforget

kinda on but off topic, would there be some way to take instructables offline like you can wikipedia, this may not be great, butt they have a lot of interesting stuff on instructables and would llke to be able to get it offline.

takemetoyourtoaster

@cmarsh: Oooh, ouch. 'Unimaginative' and 'classless'?

DigitalSciGuy

Suneth rocks.

The rest of you are unimaginative classless assholes.

cmarsh

Cheap. Could have done something more interesting with the ultrasonic range finder. I could see someone at an anime/sci-fi con wearing one of these.

DigitalSciGuy

Hmm it seems more like Nite Owl from The Watchmen to me..

quasimoto

They have arrived, looking like idiots

XxRiXoNxX182

err? u fail :D

Bash_

What a tool.

Stang70Fastback