A Billboard That Helps Bats Talk To Humans [Pics]

Designer and bat enthusiast Chris Woebken has collaborated with artist Natalie Jeremijenko to create a billboard concept that can serve as a home to bats, as well as translate their noise into comprehensible language for humans. The ‘Bat Billboard’ is equipped with ‘bat voice’ recognition software that may be able to decipher the patterns of clicks bats create to communicate with each other when compared with ‘bat chatter libraries’ that are being created by biologists.

Woebken explains his concept:

The billboard can become an interactive display and a public face for the bats and can enable them to communicate with us about their needs in the urban environment. This communication can be playful and has the potential to create a previously unseen form of viral advertising, as well as an ongoing attention to fostering, studying, and maintaining the bat population therein.