Boat-loving seagulls will have to poop elsewhere if a team of high school students have anything to say about it. The team, named Vanish Productions, recently won the top regional prize in New Zealand’s Young Enterprise contest for their Ultrasonic Bird Repeller.

Look At All The Seagulls

 The Repeller uses high-pitched sounds to keep seagulls from landing on boats and painting them white. It operates off of a 12V boat battery and emits a sound that drives birds crazy, even though humans can’t hear it. The inventors hope the noise will do for seagulls what an AC/DC concert does for senior citizens – drive them far, far away.

According to Nadine Ansler, one of Vanish Production’s team members, the idea came during a physics class. “We were talking about sound frequencies and how there are some sounds that only animals can hear,” she said. “Somehow, we got on the subject of how it would be good to scare the seagulls away from the boats.”

Vanish Productions entered their invention into the Young Enterprise contest, which asks high schoolers to develop and market an idea that can make over $2 million a year. They now get to pitch their idea to a panel of judges along with four other teams. The winner earns “company of the year” honors and could even get funding for their product from a New Zealand investment company, Movac.

I hope the Vanish Productions wins, if only because they just might come up with a similar invention to keep those rotten pigeons off my car.

Via: inventorspot