Representative Pete King of New York has introduced a bill to Congress that would require all new cameraphones to have shutter sounds. Why? For the children!
Have you ever wondered what somebody looks like under their clothes? I’m guessing you have! Well, so have researchers at Brown University. That’s why they’ve developed some fancy software that creates models of what people look like naked based only on pictures of them in their clothes. Awesome?
Night vision goggles are one of those things that you’ve always wanted, but known that the novelty wasn’t worth the hundreds (or thousands) of dollars such fancy equipment obviously would cost. Well, good news! Now there are night vision goggles priced with you, the amateur pervert, in mind. Only $US90! The EyeClops goggles we checked out in February are finally for sale. They’re similar but assuredly crappier than the ones special forces badasses use! No sleeping ladies are safe when you’ve got cheap night vision goggles. [ThinkGeek]
A 23-year-old student named Craig Feigin is facing possible felony charges in Florida for allegedly putting spyware of the worst kind on up to 10 women’s laptop computers. The programs, which he apparently wrote himself, would cause the integrated webcams on the laptops take snapshots at certain times when a person was close and upload them to a server on the Internet, where he would be able to browse them at will. This included several photos of at least one woman in various states of undress. The moral of the story: Make sure you trust your computer repair geek, or at least keep an eye on what they’re doing to your machines. [Ars]
According to reporter Nobuyuki Hayashi, the camera of the iPhone 3G sold in Japan will make a shutter sound every time you take a photo, even if you put the telephone in silent mode. The reason: all those pervs taking photos up the skirts of unsuspected women in public places.
