Protection from paparazzi and big brother: glasses for invisibility and jacket from flash flashes

In our time, the difficult question of protection against the invasion of privacy is becoming more common. The streets are full of surveillance cameras, almost everyone carries a smartphone with a camera in their pockets, and the algorithms recognize the faces in the photographs better and better every day. And although first of all various celebrities, who suffer from excessive attention of photographers, are taken, ordinary people are also not always ready to be captured unexpectedly.

Several ways to escape from the annoying lens have already been written on the GT , and here are two new methods. The first is that it is almost a finished product. This is a jacket with a hood, the material of which contains thousands of glass nanospheres. As a result, when photographing a person with a flash, the material of the jacket reflects most of the world, and the photo turns out to be illuminated - a bright jacket is visible on it, everything else is beyond the sensitivity of the photomatrix.


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You can support the Flashback Photobomber Hoodie project on the Betabrand website , which specializes in crowdfunding clothing. Jacket cost is $ 205. The campaign has already received the required finances, but it will last another week. Delivery of jackets promise to start in August.



The second is still in the concept stage. The research company AVG Innovation Labs offers special glasses that have two functions at once. First, they are covered with reflective material that sends light from the flash back toward the lens. Secondly, they have built-in infrared emitters - their light is not visible to the ordinary eye, but it is recognized by the cameras. According to the authors of the project, this greatly complicates the process of face recognition, for example, Facebook technologies.




A kind of "battle of armor and projectile" in the field of privacy and unwanted photographs and video surveillance has just begun - and time will tell where it takes us.