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New System to Counter Photo and Video Devices
Incongruity writes "News.com is reporting that a team from Georgia Tech has developed and demoed a system that actively searches for and effectively blinds cameras and camcorders within a 10 meter radius." From the article: "In this system, a device bathes the region in front of it with infrared light. When an intense retroreflection indicates the presence of a digital camera lens, the device then fires a localized beam of light directly at that point. Thus, the picture gets washed out."
Paparazzi Shields for famous celebrities. It's like a force field!
Can't wait to see how many people will go blind with this contraption!
She lit a match and felt the warm glow of its meager heat before it burned down to her fingers and she dropped it in the snow. Then she lit another and another until all her matches were gone and she began to feel icy fingers of winter clutching at her tiny frail frame.
She moved along the street looking for an open door, shelter, any shelter. Then she thought, what's this? She felt a deep warmth the likes of which she had not felt since her mother's embrace. It was glorious. She sat down to rest and soon fell asleep.
And thus it came to pass, she was found roast to a golden brown, like a Thanksgiving turkey, before the offices of the Central Intelligence Agency.
A feeling of having made the same mistake before: Deja Foobar
Heck, didn't Alan Bean discover a way to do this in 1969 while on an Apollo 12 EVA? (he says tongue firmly in cheek).
Ignore Alien Orders
Big deal. International Rescue had them already, 30 years ago, to protect strangers from photographing the Thunderbirds.
Are you accusing the editors of duping a story?
I'm gonna get like 10 for every room 'cause I know you're watching and trying to keep me from talking about the Alie^H^H ...mmmmpppph
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now the police can give the beat downs without any fear of being caught
back in the day we didnt have no old school
There's still other details to work out, like the armed guards, the exploding ink in the money packets, etc., but I'm glad those Georgia engineers solved one of my problems.
What about an identical system to flood the sensor with IR light and take the shot ? ;)
Exactly- those are the two choices for defeating this technology. Of course, then you won't get those neat night-vision see-through-clothes pictures....
SJW: a person who perceives an injustice, and while correcting it, commits a greater injustice.
not necessarily, if you simply ringed the area you wanted to "protect" with high output IR LED's you could wash out the photographic opportunity for no more than one quarter metric butt tons of juice by my calculations.
In waiting for your response, I will be tucked away nicely out of sight.
Yeah, that's what you think...
"We returned the General to El Salvador, or maybe Guatemala, it's difficult to tell from 10,000 feet"
Ha :-) They realy didn't think of that, now did they ? Yeah, sure you can prevent people from taking pictures and stuff, but once installed, they render their own surveillance system useless.