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Stealth Wear Aims to Make a Tech Statement
- doctorstupid 13y agoI think that P.K. Dick saw the future with his 'scramble suits': http://www.technovelgy.com/ct/content.asp?Bnum=997 http://www.technovelgy.com/ct/content.asp?Bnum=997 ...the wearer of a scramble suit was Everyman and in every combination...
- kstop 13y ago...now made irrelevant by gait analysis.
- mindcrime 13y agoCouldn't you deter that by just putting a rock in your shoe?
- MonkoftheFunk 13y agolittle brother style
- mindcrime 13y agoIf you needed any more evidence that the "cyberpunk future" is here, this article has to be it. A friend of mine has an idea for a project to build a tiara or necklace, loaded with IR emitters, to emit enough IR radiation in the vicinity of her head/face to blur her face out in pictures/video taken by surveillance cameras / Google Glass / etc. Most cheap cameras digital cameras (at least) do seem to pick up IR radiation so it will probably work, at least for a while. But I wonder if camera makers won't eventually start putting IR filters in? Or maybe some already do?
- ctdonath 13y agoWhy is the "stealth hoodie" just chest-up? BTW snipers have been quite aware of the issue for some time. Tales told of a sniper defeating a demonstration of an expensive automatic anti-sniper system by borrowing someone's umbrella...
- melloclello 13y agoTo illustrate the difference in visibility, I'd imagine.
- iacvlvs 13y agoFrom TFA: "In theory, this limits one’s visibility to aerial surveillance vehicles employing heat-imaging cameras to track people on the ground."