One test of SpiderSense involved library navigation.
(Credit: Lance Long, EVL)
If Peter Parker’s spider-sense ranks high on your list of coveted superpowers, you may experience a strange tingling sensation at news of a suit that alerts the wearer to the presence of nearby objects.
Victor Mateevitsi, a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Illinois’ Electronic Visualization Laboratory in Chicago, is the main man behind SpiderSense, a “wearable device that projects the wearer’s near environment on the skin and allows for directional awareness of objects around him” in much the same way Spider-Man can detect danger without the benefit of sight.
SpiderSense from the front and the back. Hopefully future versions will be slightly more fashionable.
(Credit: Lance Long, EVL)
The suit — which is for better or worse far less pec-revealing than Spidey’s getup — consists of 11 sensor modules positioned for 360-degree coverage. Each sensor module houses an ultrasonic range finder and a … [Read more]
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