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Posted: 12/14/2013 11:13:31 AM EDT

We pass under surveillance cameras every day, appearing on perhaps
hundreds of minutes of film. We rarely notice them. London-based artist
James Bridle would like to remind us.



Bridle has created
a wearable device he calls the "surveillance spaulder.” Inspired by the
original spaulder—a piece of medieval plate armor that protected "the
wearer from unexpected and unseen blows from above”—the surveillance
spaulder alerts the wearer to similarly unseen, if electronic, attacks.
Whenever its sensor detects the the type of infrared lighting commonly
used with surveillance cameras, it sends an electric signal to two
"transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation” pads, which causes the
wearer to twitch.



The surveillance spaulder provides a "a tap on the shoulder,” Bridle writes, "every time one comes under the gaze of power.”



http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/12/the-new-armor-that-lets-you-sense-surveillance-cameras/282335/

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Well that's kind of cool. - TS
Link Posted: 12/14/2013 11:14:06 AM EDT
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this will allow me to be even creepier in public.
Link Posted: 12/14/2013 11:17:03 AM EDT
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in before alex jones installs it in t-shirts
Link Posted: 12/14/2013 11:18:31 AM EDT
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So you can walk around involuntarily twitching? No thank you.
Link Posted: 12/14/2013 11:20:08 AM EDT
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I'd like it better if it also located the camera and sent a blinding pulse of light to destroy the camera. Or maybe a small EMP.

Heck, a simple burst from a 7.62 Minigun would suffice.
Link Posted: 12/14/2013 11:22:49 AM EDT
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I'd like it better if it also located the camera and sent a blinding pulse of light to destroy the camera. Or maybe a small EMP.

Heck, a simple burst from a 7.62 Minigun would suffice.
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Little box on your shoulder housing a green laser... think Predator.  
Link Posted: 12/14/2013 11:25:11 AM EDT
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Orwell and Huxley were wrong.  It was Gibson, Dick and Stephenson we should have heeded.
Link Posted: 12/14/2013 11:25:21 AM EDT
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IR on cameras is not on in daytime. I would imagine a fair amount of false alarms from IR sources all around us.

Doubts about an immature tech.

Link Posted: 12/14/2013 11:31:58 AM EDT
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Heck, a simple burst from a 7.62 Minigun would suffice.
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Better to use the devices on the camera operators. They're more expensive and replacements will quickly become impossible to find...  
Link Posted: 12/14/2013 12:12:32 PM EDT
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Yes, because who wouldn't want a device that makes you involuntarily twitch as you pass one of the hundreds of surveillance cameras on your daily route?
Link Posted: 12/14/2013 12:14:28 PM EDT
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Needs an infrared strobe to "blind" the camera at night, or lowlight situations
Link Posted: 12/14/2013 1:38:10 PM EDT
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Strobes won't work because you'll have frames when the light is off and you can easily be seen.  But a few common IR LEDs mounted near your face will blind most cameras -

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jOH9XhsP3iI

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eaIIswjQ8OA
Link Posted: 12/14/2013 1:41:14 PM EDT
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Yeah, like you don't already.
Link Posted: 12/14/2013 2:51:23 PM EDT
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I am not sure that is possible.
Link Posted: 12/14/2013 3:44:18 PM EDT
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Yeah, like you don't already.
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Yeah, like you don't already.


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I am not sure that is possible.


ZING!

Link Posted: 12/14/2013 3:49:54 PM EDT
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Stick those patches on your taint.
Link Posted: 12/14/2013 3:58:45 PM EDT
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He most likely had a prototype installed in his ass already.
Link Posted: 12/14/2013 4:00:33 PM EDT
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wake me up when I can evade thermal
Link Posted: 12/14/2013 4:09:30 PM EDT
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If it detected the IR, haven't you already been seen?
Link Posted: 12/15/2013 10:02:40 AM EDT
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He most likely had a prototype installed in his ass already.
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He most likely had a prototype installed in his ass already.



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