Embedded in the jewelry are high-output infrared LEDs, which cause massive lens flare in surveillance cameras—particularly the kind designed to see at night. The result is that your face is effectively obscured from most angles on security cameras. You’re still totally visible to the human eye though, since the light doesn’t really affect our field vision. [ITP]
david
Monday, May 23, 2011 at 12:15 PMfirst person to use this to rob a 7/11 wins the prize
so simple
Monday, May 23, 2011 at 2:22 PMSuch a simple design…. i am sure high tech robbers must have thought of this before? keeping your identity safe from being recorded while not looking dodgy (like wearing a mask)
formulated
Monday, May 23, 2011 at 5:21 PMNot entirely new, I know of shop lifters and graffiti artists embedding LED’s under the brim of a hat. Then I heard that different wavelengths of light can be filtered out making the light mask pointless.. meaning using such a device can just bring you to their attention.