Daro Roz’yrn
“150 years of getting shot at for a living”
- Intent: create a special user interface that is tailored for species with sonar capabilities.
- Image Source: ChatGPT
- Canon Link: N/A
- Permissions: N/A
- Primary Source: N/A
- Manufacturer:
- Dornean Braha'ket Fleetworks Conglomerate
- Plenty of other manufacturers
- Affiliation: any and all sonar capable species.
- Market Status: Open-Market
- Model:
- Formal name: Sonar Medium User Interface Device (S.M.U.I.D.)
- Common Slangs:
- Clicker Phone
- Clicker Set
- Ear Clickers
- Modularity: yes
- The earpiece can be fitted with different shaped inserts for different species.
- The fitted inserts also come in a specially designed non-liquid ultrasound foam-gel for species that can normally only hear sonar under water. Otherwise, the fitted inserts would be made of generic plastic for species that normally use sonar in atmospheric conditions.
- Production: Mass-Produced
- Material:
- Ear canal inserts made from specially designed non-liquid ultrasound foam-gel for species that can normally only hear sonar under water.
- Circuitry and wiring
- Surge protection components for military grade models
- Sonar 3D Imaging – Provides sonar capable species’ with a user interface that generates imaging, text documents, or icons using sonar sound waves as a sensory medium.
- Compatibility – Designed to integrate with literally any computerized system. ie: starship computers, armor HUDs, datapads, holonet terminals, etc.
- Unique Control Method – Can interpret sonar clicks from the user as operational commands for controlling the UI.
- Combat Reliability – Military versions are surge protected to reduce the risk of EMP attacks or ION weapons.
- Safety Gear – Industrial and Military versions have sound cancelling and reproduce all sounds artificially to protect the user’s hearing from harmful decibel levels or sonic attacks.
- Aquatically Inclusive – Some sonar capable species are amphibious and can only use their sonar naturally under water. To make these devices usable for amphibious beings in non aquatic environments, a special earpiece insert made from ultrasound foam-gel can be used.
- Anti malware – Many models come with cyber security features to prevent code breaking and slicing efforts from malicious attackers.
- Enhanced resolution – This device uses precisely modulated sonar clicks to convey extremely high resolution images to the user. The clicks that this device produces are much clearer than the natural ones that a sonar capable being can produce for themselves. This is analogous to how corrective vision lenses can improve eyesight.
- Enhanced resolution – the precisely modulated sonar frequencies that this system produces are used to enhance sonar perception acuity.
- Fish out of water – optional features allow aquatic sonar beings to use these devices in non-aquatic environments.
- Hearing protection – noise canceling and sound reproduction make this device a viable form of protection from harmful noise levels and sonic attacks.
- Conspicuous – “ear clickers” are pretty small, but they aren’t exactly hidden either, sticking right in the ear.
- Discriminating – unusable by non-sonar beings such as humans, twi’leks, zeltrons, etc.
- Color Blind – sonar images cannot convey color, simply put.
“Clicker phones”, “clicker sets”, or “ear clickers” are a common, daily, quality of life item produced widely by the Dorneans for sonar capable species. They use sonar clicks as an imaging medium for conveying visual information or text data as opposed to holograms or vid-screens. They also accept sonar clicks as a method for the user to input commands as part of the user interface.
Their usefulness is pretty versatile. Sometimes these devices will be incorporated into helmets as an alternative to holographic HUDs. Fighter pilots will integrate their “clickers” with the ship’s sensors to increase their 360° situational awareness in combat. Or businesspersons will connect their sets to their datapads so they can manage data while they’re on-the-go.
A particularly useful feature they have is noise cancellation. They can totally cancel out ambient noise and reproduce that noise at safe volumes inside the user’s ear. This makes them a common form of PPE (personal protective equipment) for industrial purposes and combat.
This technology isn’t new, and Dorneans aren’t the only producers of these things. But the Dornean brand is very common, and is one of the more reputable options on the market.
Out Of Character Info
Intent:
create a special user interface that is tailored for species with sonar capabilities.
Technical Information
Affiliation:
any and all sonar capable species.
Modular:
Yes
Material:
Ear canal inserts made from specially designed non-liquid ultrasound foam-gel for species that can normally only hear sonar under water. Circuitry and wiring Surge protection components for military grade models
