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AVG Announces Invisibility Glasses
BrianFagioli writes So what do these glasses from AVG Innovation Labs actually do? The security firm claims it can protect your identity in this new era of cameras everywhere. From the article: "'Through a mixture of technology and specialist materials, privacy wearables such as invisibility glasses can make it difficult for cameras or other facial recognition technologies to get a clear view of your identity', AVG claims. This is still in the prototype phase of testing, though it has been officially announced at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. There's a lot of science behind this -- a series of infrared lights surrounding the eyes and nose is not visible to other people, but cameras will pick it up making recognition difficult at best. There's also reflective materials involved, which aids in the blocking, or so it's claimed."
You should go everywhere accompanied by a young, nubile swimsuit model in a revealing costume.
No matter how many cameras there are, any cameras directed by a male surveillance team won't be looking at you....
... remove hats and sunglasses for more than a year.
I hope you sue them when you get skin cancer or cataracts after going all summer without protection from the sun.
Take a regular TV IR remote control and point it at your smartphone camera. You'll notice on your phone's screen that the LED lights up quite brightly.
You will be walking around a town with several of these things attached to your face, shining away happily. Do you not think anybody will notice?
This is the tech equivalent of Peter Griffin dressing in the clown costume while in the jungle, stating that "they're going to be looking for Army guys."
You can already buy identity concealing glasses. They work by projecting a false set of the facial landmarks used by facial recognition software while obscuring your own.
Best of all, you can get them at the dollar store.
When our name is on the back of your car, we're behind you all the way!