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Imagine a GoPro-style camera which transmitted wirelessly to a nearby smartphone. From there, the receiving app would sync it to a server ASAP. If you knew yo

Imagine a GoPro-style camera which transmitted wirelessly to a nearby smartphone. From there, the receiving app would sync it to a server ASAP. If you knew you were entering into a situation where video you were capturing might be confiscated, you could tape the phone to your thigh with a lot of duct tape. By the time the police organized themselves sufficiently to cut the tape off of your body, the important video likely would already be uploaded. Could this scheme be expanded upon by some sort of steel lock box around one's waist/ankle/etc? That would give the phone a lot of time to do its work. Furthermore, the box could contain an additional microphone which would continue recording after initial camera seizure. In cases where groups of protesters feared arrest, could Bluetooth be used to create a Tor-esque upload-to-the-cloud network which would eventually reconstitute everyone's video? I'm imagining a bunch of phones talking to each other in a mesh and trading blobs which could be reassembled server-side.

drivebyacct2 15y ago
Android supports USB devices, there's no reason you couldn't rig it up with a commodity webcam plugged directly into the phone. I'd had this idea, but as an art project (give the app away and maybe some hats with cams and use the footage for something. I'm not good with art). Anyhow, this setup could be used to stream live video from the frontlines of... anything with cell phone service. (edit, I suppose drivers could be an issue on second consideration)
ADevilsAdvocate 15y ago
At least until the police started deploying cell-phone jammers as a matter of 'best practice' during police action.
- ShabbyDoo 15y ago
  This sort of thing could set-off an arms race between police and those who want to record them. However, the police today seem to stifle recording in a grass roots, individual way. Would the police chief be embarrassed to explain in a room full of journalists that his department "jams" legal communications equipment as a matter of practice?

drivebyacct2 15y ago

Android supports USB devices, there's no reason you couldn't rig it up with a commodity webcam plugged directly into the phone. I'd had this idea, but as an art project (give the app away and maybe some hats with cams and use the footage for something. I'm not good with art). Anyhow, this setup could be used to stream live video from the frontlines of... anything with cell phone service. (edit, I suppose drivers could be an issue on second consideration)

ADevilsAdvocate 15y ago

At least until the police started deploying cell-phone jammers as a matter of 'best practice' during police action.

ShabbyDoo 15y ago
This sort of thing could set-off an arms race between police and those who want to record them. However, the police today seem to stifle recording in a grass roots, individual way. Would the police chief be embarrassed to explain in a room full of journalists that his department "jams" legal communications equipment as a matter of practice?