Sure this is peripheral to B_A. Please forgive me. Some, especially bicycle
riders or people who like to identify bird calls they don't know, may think
this amusing.
New inventors program on ABC TV had a device that instead of a bicycle bell
emit a birdy sound when sensors in the hand grip are squeezed. I sent this
message below to the New inventors website:
The Hi tech bicycle bell featured on new inventors yesterday may be
technically clever but sorry, what a dopey idea that is. Hard to believe that
the panel didn't even mention this. The advantage of a bicycle bell is that
people recognise it for what it is. A bell that sounds like a bird can only
have two outcomes from the two types of people in the world. Bird observers
will have trouble identifying the species and look around for a bird they don't
recognise. Non bird observers will think it is a bird and just ignore it.
Nobody will think "beware - bike".
Philip
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