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Bat Hanger: Does Alfred Do Laundry?

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It’s just another weekday here at Wayne Manor, chilling out in the Batcave, watching some Bat TV from the ol’ Bat Couch while sipping on a Bat Beer. The chores have been done, the floors scrubbed, Robin is tucked safely into his crib, and the laundry is all done and hanging on the Bat Hangers. Designed by Veronika Paluchova, these hangers fold up their “wings” just like real bats when not in use. Which makes it a space saver, which is the only reason I want these- not because it’s the freakin’ coolest hangers ever- for the space.

Bat Hanger: Does Alfred Do Laundry?

Your Flashlight, Now With 100% More Bat

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Strange noise in the middle of the night got you scared? There’s a bunch of things you could do. If you’re not the shoot first and ask questions later kind of person, these might include grabbing a baseball bat and exploring. How about a baseball bat with an integrated flashlight? It makes sense to think that if it’s the middle of the night and you’re terrified, you may not think to turn the lights on. Or maybe there’s a power outage. Or whatever… We can conceive of a bunch of situations where you’d want something like this. It has a light output of 200 lumens, and even a strobe function that could disorientate someone whose eyes have accustomed to the dark. And at $30, it’s a bargain.

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‘Sonar Vision’ system touted by researchers to help the blind hear what they can’t see

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Scientists from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem have developed a prototype system that could one day aid the congenitally blind by converting video into auditory cues. The "Sonar Vision" works in a similar way to a bat's echolocation system, but instead of chirping, uses a video camera embedded in a pair of glasses. A laptop or smartphone then converts the images into sound, which is transmitted to a headset. After 70 hours or so of training, that allowed users to identify objects like faces or houses, position objects in space and even identify individual letters. Surprisingly, researchers also found that after only several hours using the device, regions of the cerebral cortex dedicated to sight became activated for the first time in the congenitally sightless. That could possibly let doctors "wake up" regions of the brain never before used, according to the team, "even after a lifetime of blindness."

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