You've been looking for WiFi every day, have you heard it?

Earlier this year, Frank Swin (Frank Swain), who had had a slow hearing degradation of 10 years, had to wear a pair of Starkey Halo hearing aids. The hearing aids can receive audio streaming from the IPhone via Bluetooth, the most advanced product in the market. Swain, a New Scientist author, wonders: Hearing aids are always considered a Band-Aid for hearing loss, but what if hearing aids not only improves listening, but also makes people hear voices that other people can't hear?

Daniel Jones, Usse's moderate voice artist, launched the Phantom terrains project, with two people revamping his hearing aids and turning Wi-Fi signals into sound. Walking down the street, Swain can hear the melody of the wireless network change and improve the understanding of the surroundings through voices that others cannot hear. Swain through Phantom to turn disability into a super power.

The sound of each wireless network is based on many standards. For example, a background sound consisting of a burst sound and a click sound shows the network density of a particular area. The more wireless networks, the more intensive the clicks. These data are based on geographic location, the closer the wearer is to the router, the faster the sound is clicked; If the router is to the left of the wearer, the wearer hears the sound in the ear and the right ear hears the sound. The foreground sound is a vague melody, like a song drifting from afar. This converts the network ID to a note. Each letter and number represents a single note. So while BT's routers may all start with the same pitch, the melody changes quickly because each router has a different ID.

On the surface alone, Phantom is also a very clever idea. As with light painting, visualizing invisible data streams can achieve beautiful results. But Phantom is more than just spectacular, it embodies the way we interact with and understand information. Listening and watching is the way we deal with the world around us, and it's a very efficient way.

Our ears can quickly and easily collect and understand a large amount of complex data. Google glasses failed because of too much demand. Turning hard data into sound is a clever way to do it, as Phantom do with WiFi. The project also hints at the rise of the Sound interface, and Swain that we are only just beginning to explore the benefits of sound through Siri, Cortana and Amazon's Echo, and with the rise of high-bandwidth, low-power devices, we will be able to make it easier for visible and invisible Digital life--wifi signals, satellites, Email or any data stream--turn to sound.