Elderly? Russian Spy? Double Agent? Medical Experiment?
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Fave Comment: The iPod earbuds before the Japanese got into manufacturing them. – Reed
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maybe it;s to hide his big ears…
also, first.
The original prototype Mickey Mouse ears were too hard to dance in.
This is why the British invented radar.
See, just a few more tweaks and Verizon will soon be the best cellular network anywhere!!
Elizabethan Collar – so he stops licking his ears
FIRST
dangit Sqwirk!
This will definitely work.
True,
This was used by the english during WWII
“Can you hear me now?”
“It’s an Obama Wanabee”
Headphones 0.1
a young Daniel Craig?
Naaaaa, na na na na naaa naaa naaa naaa Katamari Damacy!
Must be a member of the royal family.
what?
Heightens one sense, but at the expense of another- think of what this does to his peripheral vision. So long as you’re very, very quiet it would actually be easier to sneak up on him than before…
He’s totally concentrating on how he’ll kill his commander tonight for this XD
Nope, nope … this doesn’t make Lady Gaga’s music sound any better either.
He looks like he’s about to cry.
Of course, I’d cry too if I had been forced to wear that thing.
I want one.
The iPod earbuds before the Japanese got into manufacturing them
its called acoustic locator…google it…or acousitic radar
This is the human version of the cones that they make wounded dog’s wear. Don’t want him chewing on those head stitches.
and on that fateful day he heard the most beautiful voice singing in the wind. three months later he and miss keller were married.
He’s quite handsome..
I like his hair.
Huh? I didn’t hear you.
The six-million dollar man, circa 1880.
Big Friendly Giant wannabe?
Well that’s what Mickey Mouse would look like if Walt Disney had become a communist in the GDR.
He was sick of hearing that everything just goes in one ear and out the other.
This is definitely a whale stethoscope.
Where’s my airhorn when I need it? I’d love to watch his head explode.
People are close. When the British first developed radar, they wanted to keep it a secret. After all, the ability to detect planes miles away, through the clouds was damn impressive. They credited their amazing ability to down enemy planes on their ‘listening crews’ like this guy.
Ah, no , sorry. “People” are closer than you. Acoustic detection of aircraft was a serious business before radar was invented. The first experiments actually pre-date World War 1, and it was widely used in WWI, when this picture was probably taken. Systems ranged in size from this head-mounted version to huge arrays of horns mounted on vehicles.
By the mid-1920s, aircraft were getting so fast and high-flying that to get adequate detection range, the British had started to experiment with the gigantic concrete versions whose remains are still found along the Channel coast. Those huge acoustic lenses fed into electronic amplifiers and electronic engine-frequency detectors. But by the 1930s — before the system was actually deployed — they were already obsolete as the best acoustic detection technology was inadequate for the latest planes. A lot of effort went into exploring alternatives (including infra-red thermal detection, which couldn’t be made to work properly at the time but was in service by then end of WW2) and radar was invented.
There was no reason for the British to pretend that their detection system wasn’t radio based. The Germans also had radar, and knew perfectly well that the British had it too. However the British did manage to continuously fool the Germans about their exact radar capabilities, which for most of the war stayed a couple of years ahead of the Germans in most respects. (And, indeed, a decade ahead of the rest of the world until the Churchill sent Sir Henry Tizard to share advanced British technology with America.) The deception games they played are fascinating, but a lot more complicated than just pretending they didn’t have radar. If interested, you can read about it in “Most Secret War”, the memoirs of Dr. R. V. Jones, one of the scientists involved.
Sorry to double post, but if anyone is interested in more wacky pictures of real military acoustic aircraft locators, here is an excellent page:
http://www.dself.dsl.pipex.com/museum/COMMS/ear/ear.htm
As you can see, by the time they were becoming obsolete in the 1930s, they were looking like they were designed by H.R.Giger. However my previous comment was wrong in one respect: in WW2, they did continue to be used for a short time for one specific role: aiming searchlights (for this, it obviously doesn’t matter that the detection range is not very far.) However by not too far into the war radar sets were being made cheap enough and small enough to mount on searchlights.
A quickly scrapped project in the early days of SETI.
I’m shocked nobody recognizes the young Prince Charles.
I really want to try a firecracker on this guy…hahahaha!
So accurate is the pickup, that you can even hear the grass growing.
CAN YOU HEAR ME NOW?
I hear the Internets being invented in the future
I think i hear The Internets being invented in the future