Camden, Maine (CNN) -- Follow Daniel Kish out onto a dock and ask him about the view.
"There's this pylon here and there's an object about 20 feet away -- here -- and another one, about 50 feet away," says Kish, overlooking a bay in coastal Maine during the recent PopTech conference, where he was a featured speaker. "I guess those are boats. I can't tell from this distance, really, but they're solid and we're on the water -- so it stands to reason." Kish is completely blind -- he lost sight in both eyes by age 13 months. He says he's trained his brain to turn these sounds into an image of sorts -- an auditory map he follows with the help of a cane. "When you send out a sonar call ... you're interrogating the environment," he said. "You're asking, 'Where are you?' and 'What are you?' And the environment answers back." If you saw Kish walking down the street you'd hear him make repeated clicking sounds with his tongue -- click! click! click! -- as he weaves through traffic or ducks to miss tree branches. The clicks usually aren't terribly loud, but they come at a continuous clip.
First thought, guys full of shit. But that can't be, I'm going to give him the benefit of the doubt and assume CNN did their homework on this one. All ya gotta do is try to slap him in the face during the interview, that should take care of it. So...
Second thought, "Dear god this guy scares the shit out of me." I mean, he's Spiderman, or real life Batman, right? Is there even a question. The guy sees using sonar ability. Thats fucking nuts. Like this isn't just a normal thing, I get that he's been practicing this for years, but I just closed my eyes and tried to click myself across my bedroom, walked smack into my bureau...my foot is killing me right now. So don't try and sell me that normal human beings can spot things the size of a softball by flicking your tongue...you've got super powers and I know it. You may not wear a mask and cape, or shoot spider webs out of your wrists (that we know of) but you're a plain as day a non-conventional Super Hero, like Quailman or something.
