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And Finally
Prototype anti-paparazzi glasses demonstrated
By Andy Malt | Published on Thursday 31 January 2013
So, Justin Bieber breaking traffic laws and Harry Styles writing rude notes may soon be a thing of the past, thanks to a new set of photo-ruining glasses that will bring about the end of the paparazzi industry. For sure.
Designed by Professor Isao Echizen at The National Institute of Informatics in Tokyo, who demonstrated a prototype in a paper published last year, the glasses shine out infrared light, which is invisible to the human eye but appears in digital photographs, covering the wearer’s face in purple dots.
Of course, it does mean walking around with some silly glasses on, but that’s OK, because they’re actually designed to stop facial recognition software from working, so it won’t just be celebrities wearing them. Though if everyone starts wearing them, we’ll just get used to people having purple dots in front of their faces and it won’t be weird any more. Maybe humans will evolve to have actual purple dots in front of their faces. And then where will we be? Right back to square one, that’s where.
