With video cameras pervading our society and, more often than not, these cameras aren't deterring crime but rather functioning as a means to spy on average people, I would like to see someone invent a product that would obscure one's face, or whole body, when being videotaped.
I envision a small ring or necklace, nothing that can be implanted, of course, that would transmit a signal around a person and the signal would distort the live and recorded image. I have seen that there are products that search for video cameras in a small area but this product would work seamlessly and give the recording nothing but garble or static where your body appears in the video and on the monitor. Also, it would be important not to effect the human eye when in the physical presence of others.
The same inventor could also develop a countermeasure that can be sold to PRIVATE entities that detects when the device is on and denies entry to someone wearing it who is entering a bank or convenience store or other private business.
Now that I think about, distorting the whole body would be a nice feature as the technology is being developed that can identify people by their gait. So, perhaps two models can be made; one for Just blocking the face which would defeat facial recognition systems and then the deluxe edition that blurs the whole body and should defeat both facial and gait recognition.
I wish I would have studied how this kind of stuff works when I was in school so I could develop this product on my own. All I have to offer is an idea with no training or skill to engineer one.
Since the medium of video cameras is light, such a device would need to distort the light reflected from the person's device, in the same way that a radio jammer swamps a receiver with electronic noise, which would be conspicuous and irritating to bystanders.
In short, the only way to defeat a specific image is to break the camera's software. Any kind of remote electromagnetic means would fry the camera as well as any other electronic devices in its way, like using a jackhammer to perform cardiac surgery.
In lieu of any Vedic epic / Star Trek technology that shoots invisibility rays or bends light around an object (which, as physicists have pointed out, would essentially blind its users), the only thing I can recommend is wearing a lot of corpse paint and/or a Freddy Kreuger mask.
The liberal education system has clearly failed you.
Yeah, well, there was a time when the smartest minds thought human-powered flight was impossible too.
M: You're making an assumption that everything we know about X is all we will ever know about X and that if someone proposes an idea that may seem impossible at present and, in turn, isn't viable with what we currently know about X, you throw your hands up and call the person names. What a narrow mind you have.
If assume everything we know about something is all we will ever know about something, then we would never progress.
The military is already working on something similar in concept in the area of camouflage in which the person becomes invisible.
The military is already working on something similar in concept in the area of camouflage in which the person becomes invisible.
Reference?
Yeah, well, there was a time when the smartest minds thought human-powered flight was impossible too.
Komm ihåg att den framlidna Carl Sagan en gång sade:
"The fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown."
I saw in on the History Channel - Modern Marvels: Camouflage. Do some web searching and you'll find some things on cloaking and other high-tech camouflage ideas. People are working on it.
You must admit that anyone capable of such an invention has to be pretty smart and I don't think it's as far-fetched as you seem to think it is. Thanks for the verbal Venn diagram.
I saw in on the History Channel - Modern Marvels: Camouflage. Do some web searching and you'll find some things on cloaking and other high-tech camouflage ideas. People are working on it.
Any of those technologies, regardless which level of the electromagnetic spectrum they operate on, function in a completely different way than anything you mentioned in the original post. Such a device would have to operate specifically on surveillance cameras. Not handheld cameras, not the stupid camera on the stupid cellphone of some schmuck who happens to stand near by, and clearly not the eyeballs of people who are standing around. It would need to be highly surgical. As a rule, it's much easier to achieve gross rather than specific effects in physics. (example)
And I'm sure nearly all physicists would agree with me on this matter.
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