The scientific term "binaural hearing" defines the micro-second difference from one human ear detecting the sound to the opposite ear-catching the same sound. This "time difference" is calculated by the brain informing the person of the direction of the source. This incredible "directional hearing" ability in animals helps them avoid danger, hear approaching predators, or seek a food source.
Helmeted riders of the past "didn't know what they didn't know" before modern helmets evolved from pith-helmet pudding bowls into the modern starship-designed energy management devices which they are today. Innovations like ventilation, communications, dual-density EPS liners, rotational acceleration suppression technologies, fog-free, and solar-darkening face shields, and moisture-absorbing liners vastly improve comfort and protection, yet the rider's ears remain covered.
Felipe Morales, RESONAR™ inventor of the bat-8D™ systems for helmets, commented, "Now a sound-directionally sensitive helmet technology is available which fills in a rider's "deaf spots"…where his forward-facing eyes cannot see. We are doing for your ears what binoculars do for your eyes, so we will soon be race-testing the bat-8D™ technology to prove an advantage with enhanced directional hearing…like a bat using echolocation to find its prey in a 360-degree sphere of coordinates."
