Ah, the Japanese. Always good for a crazy invention. This time, they’ve come up with infrared-LED-equipped glasses that help to circumvent face detection. When (knowingly or unkowingly) photographed, the near-infrared light that the glasses’ built-in LEDs emit will be registered by most cameras’ sensors and cause the eyes-and-nose-part of the face to appear washed out, while the light is invisible to the human eye. While privacy is indeed a concern now that CCTV cameras are recording every movement especially in crowded public places, these particular glasses do make you look a bit of a dork, to be honest. But then again, that will probably go mostly unnoticed on the streets of Tokyo … (or those of New York, for that matter.)
Via Akihabara News
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