At some point in our lives, we’ve all sat on a patio with a beer in our hands at 2 am in the morning, enjoying a deep conversation with our friends. But as the night goes on (or morning?), the subjects of discussion become progressively stranger (unbeknownst to us). Once you hit 3 am, you start muttering gibberish about the faked moon landing, the existence of an all-powerful gerbil god, and of course: ‘seeing sound’. Whatever that means. But with a quick Google search, you’ll quickly find that seeing sound waves is an incredibly realistic idea. Meet the SOUNDCAM, a robust camera that is specially designed to visualize sound. This acoustic camera shows the behavior of sonic waves in real time and is as easy to use as a traditional DSLR. It displays all of its findings through an intuitive and user-friendly screen, allowing even a toddler to conduct complex audio experiments. The SOUNDCAM uses 64 individual microphones to map out audio data and has a wide range of uses such as:

• Making sound art
• Finding the source of that incredibly annoying buzzing sound in your house
• Scientific research
• Spy stuff
• Pranking your friends into believing that your house is haunted by a malevolent ‘sound ghost’