Machine will let people read “dolphin language” |
An acoustics engineer named John Stuart Reid from the UK, is creating a machine that does the unthinkable. He claims it will enable people to “read” the “dolphin language.” The device is called the Cymascope, and it converts the sounds dolphins make when communicating into images, which can then be mapped into a sort of dictionary, then later “read” by people trying to understand what that dolphin is going on about.
I’m guessing half of the chatter is LOL and OMG or how they totally owned that human. The Cymascope uses a pool of water monitored by a video camera, along with some sand, brass plates and a violin bow. It sounds pretty wacky.
“What we’re going to do is excite the water by introducing the whale song, then look at what happens on the TV monitor,” Reid said, speaking to The Sun. “What you see is the image of the sound.”
It’s a great endeavor. Hopefully it will yield some clues as to what they are talking about.
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