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Echo Shoes
Spring loaded strikers in the heel make an echoing footsteps effect. | |
Each shoe has a spring loaded metal ball in the heel that
strikes the ground and makes a sound when the person
walks.
Being spring loaded however, it doesn't just hit the
ground
once, it bounces and hits the ground two or three more
times, each strike with less force than the previous as
the
movement imparted to the ball from the step dissipates
giving an echoing footstep effect.
Add to the echo effect a reverb effect by that same
spring
extending into a resonating chamber in the sole of the
shoe
and every room you walk into will sound like a haunted
house, an abandoned tunnel or or a cave.
Cool to wear on Halloween.
Of course an easier way to do it is to just have electronic
sound sample players on each foot. Advantage of that is
you could have it play other sounds
like timpani drums for when you're wearing a dinosaur or
fat guy costume.
DrBob ain't lyin'
https://www.youtube...watch?v=X3bAreqPe3Y
Somebody's done a version of the sound generating footwear idea. [doctorremulac3, May 16 2018]
The "Stayin' Alive" version.
https://www.youtube...watch?v=XfwQ_7xqO7Y
Anybody who says they didn't strut down the street like this in their youth when they got a new outfit is lying. [doctorremulac3, May 17 2018]
[link]
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I know it's not in fashion,
and a trifle uncool,
but I can't help it,
I'm a tympanic fool.
It's a habit of mine,
to walk as sun goes down,
On Echo shoes, I walk as sun goes down.
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From nine till five I have to limp around and lurk,
my stride is so forlorning, I'm a soda jerk.
The only thing that helps to keep the blues at bay
is knowing I will walk my Echo shoes Sunday. |
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On the silent summer pavement
the ground's alive with sound,
rounding in the distance
a surrealistic pound.
My Echo shoes
create sounds which abound.
With Echo shoes
there's not a sole unwound. |
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It's creative moments like that that have kept me
coming to this site for all these years. |
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[doc], I can't help feeling that we could achieve a greater
level of uncanniness. Or perhaps a lesser level of canniness. |
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What's needed is (a) soft-soled, noiseless shoes and (b) an in-
shoe sound system that can generate the sound of a footfall
exactly 150ms before your foot strikes the ground. |
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"Gravel driveway" crunch when walking across carpet ? |
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That would be excellent. I already regret having the driveway
Axminstered. |
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Clearly as suggested, multiple, selectable sound
effects are needed. |
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I think shoe mounted sound generators with 20 or
so different effects would sell. Not sure if it would
make a lot of money but people would buy these. I
would. |
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Make it motion sensitive so harder steps make one
sound, softer make different sounds. So walk into
the room with booming floor crunching sounds
then tip toe which will trigger the squeeky floor
sound. |
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We're getting ahead of ourselves here. We need to walk before we
can fly. |
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Why not start with shoes that make the sound of a footstep as the
wearer's foot hits the ground? |
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Once we've achieved that, we can start getting creative. |
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// the sound of a footstep as the wearer's foot hits the ground? // |
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Could it make the sound of one hand, clapping ? |
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Clip clop horse walking noises too? [+] |
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...that changes to a gallop sound when you run. |
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"You're using coconuts !" |
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Or the possible contender of walking through piles of Lego. |
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I own a pair of giant monster feet slippers. The right foot makes a crashing giant footstep sound when it moves. The left foot is silent so the gap between crashes is unnaturally long, making it sound like you are taking much larger (i.e. giant) footsteps. |
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Yup, looked it up and posted a link. |
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However, I think one of your monster feet might just
be not working. Both of this guy's feet make a
crashing sound. |
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I think these could be improved by sensing when the
person stops walking and letting out a Godzilla roar. |
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// walking through piles of Lego // |
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We will pay top dollar for boots that play the sound of crushing the tiny, fragile dreams of orphans and [xenzag]. |
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What do you mean ‘Top dollar’? |
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Do the sounds actually have to be just ‘simulated’? |
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// one of your monster feet might just be not working//
Nah, they work fine. There is a speaker in one but not the other. They are about 15 years old or more, I think. My nieces bought them for me as a Christmas present one year. They know what their uncle likes & it ain't Chantilly Lace! |
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Is there any possibly of a written reassurance that "Chantilly Lace" isn't a euphemism for some revolting and perverted sexual activity ? |
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A set of gaudy dress shoes playing "Stayin Alive" could
be kind of cool. (See link) |
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//We will pay top dollar for boots that play the
sound of crushing the tiny, fragile dreams of
orphans and [xenzag].//I take it you've finished
crocheting the last batch of toilet seat covers I
sent you. Customers are waiting! You're idle! Get
back to work or you'll be counting sand granules
with your tongue again for another month. |
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// you've finished crocheting the last batch of toilet seat covers // |
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Some ... still got plenty of goat-hair twine, but awaiting the next delivery of itching powder and cactus spines. |
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//Is there any possibly of a written reassurance that "Chantilly Lace" isn't a euphemism for some revolting and perverted sexual activity ?//
I have no idea 8th, but if it is, I am too innocent to understand it. I was going to add a link to The Big Bopper on youtube but, upon review, I didn't think it would do a lot to help my case. |
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