Barn owls' hearing inspires new electronic devices for wayfinding

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We have an owl living on the property in Joshua Tree, he eats a lot of rodents / ground squirrels. He’s ok in my book.

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Any cell phone has more than enough horsepower to do this without special circuits. Seems like something for people who like listening to phonographs through vacuum tubes.

A few years ago I saw a article about nano directional microphones and how a array of those in the future could be used to create a sound “camera”.

I’m still waiting, this could be really useful in troubleshooting that annoying noise my refrigerator makes.

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