Comments on: Anti-paparazzi sunglasses

By: SimpleText

SimpleText — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 01:24:05 +0000

By: simpletext

simpletext — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 11:00:27 +0000

wtf lol

By: Solenoidclock

Solenoidclock — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 07:08:33 +0000

I did something similar to this about a month ago. I used twelve IR LEDs in throwie form to blot out the identities of myself and five friends during a mostly harmless prank on my high school. The viewing angle must’ve been very broad, because nobody got any flack for it and no security pictures were used to fuel the subsequent manhunt.

For those interested, we were bonding traffic cones to the middles of a row of desirable parking spaces that the student council had greedily reserved for themselves.

By: Chris R

Chris R — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 04:52:01 +0000

Apparently my embed code was disabled (I assumed it would be). Here.

http://www.vodwizard.com/video/462/anti-paparazzi-sunglasses.html

By: K1ngfunK

K1ngfunK — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 04:27:43 +0000

Since this really only works with low-light cameras, what about using the same idea, but with a different (perhaps illegal, but that’s not the point :P ) implementation: installing several inside your car’s license plate holder (around the license plate). You could power them off the car’s 12v signal, and I’m thinking it would effectively white your license plate for any type of traffic monitoring camera.

The problem I see is knowing how a person could test this without knowing exactly what type of cameras are being used.

By: Night Ninja

Night Ninja — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 03:38:41 +0000

Tried to make this,even with four IR LEDS, didn’t work. Am I using IR leds not powerful enough? or is this video a fake?

Can someone tell me if this is possible and where I can find the correct LED’s?

By: Chris R

Chris R — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 03:38:30 +0000

Good Idea. I think I’d make it just because it’s interesting. I have a camera that I removed the IR filter from, so this might be interesting to test it against that a normal camera with filer. Anyway, the video you embedded has been removed from Medacafe so here’s another one.

By: TheKhakinator

TheKhakinator — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 16:46:04 +0000

Ignoring IR filters, the LEDs would only show up as small white dots – just as high brightness white LEDs would.

This could /possibly/ work on a security cam set up for night vision with IR, but you’d need a fuckton of LEDs, and at night, you’d just make yourself MORE visible, not less, probably.

The hack is fake, as previously stated. Why hasn’t this post been edited to say that? The whole Pentium drink warmer post was corrected pretty quick.

As for autofocus – some cameras use IR rangefinding for autofocus. That’s why it would mess with the autofocus. The IR autofocuses don’t like windows either, cause of reflection.

By: kmangwing

kmangwing — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 11:27:38 +0000

You guys totally posted something exactly like this a few months ago. I’ve been trying to find it but I can’t seem to get the right post. It was the same thing except the guy used goggles or something.

By: simpletext

simpletext — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 10:16:49 +0000

what if you spend alot of money on the hat idea and use some sort of IR laser beam array, perhaps several diodes with movable arc-style motors like club laser boxes?

By: pastasauce

pastasauce — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 08:47:12 +0000

I’m surprised Kip Kay didn’t narrate this.

By: Seamus Dubh

Seamus Dubh — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 00:43:07 +0000

The concept is great, just used for the wrong thing this is more of a “Anti-Big Brother” type thing.
As some have stated, this I really infective against your common photo type cameras, they have Ir filters.
What this is great for are ‘Low Light’ cameras, i.e. security cameras, they usually use Ir lamps for illumination at night.

By: BigD145

BigD145 — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 22:18:13 +0000

A hat with lithium cell inside and some IR style cree’s will work.

By: joen

joen — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 17:29:28 +0000

but should be useful against night-vision cameras using ir, right?

By: blankthemuffin

blankthemuffin — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 16:15:36 +0000

Heh, it’s not a fake hack, it just doesn’t work with alot of cameras because they have IR filters.

This would be extremely effective against night cameras which use IR spotlights to discreetly light an area to the camera.