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Re: Show HN: Glasses to detect smart-glasses that have cameras

#13
I remember seeing some celebrities in the late 00s / early 10s with IR-emitting sunglasses or accessories to flood the camera sensors of paparazzi and make it harder for photographers to get spyshots of them.

Would this approach work for these camera glasses as well, simply flooding them with so much IR spectrum light that their sensors simply can't see you anymore?

Re: Show HN: Glasses to detect smart-glasses that have cameras

#15
post #12

This is seriously neat. Love the name too

Thank you! To settle a debate between me and a friend, do you think Ray-BANNED or Ban-Rays is the better name?

Ban-Rays. Ray-BANNED could be read to mean that you've been banned by Ray-Ban IMO, the opposite of what's happening.

Re: Show HN: Glasses to detect smart-glasses that have cameras

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post #12

This is seriously neat. Love the name too

Thank you! To settle a debate between me and a friend, do you think Ray-BANNED or Ban-Rays is the better name?

Ray-Banned is a good pun, but might bring you legal trouble. I’d go with Ban-Rays

Re: Show HN: Glasses to detect smart-glasses that have cameras

#19

Interesting idea. It seems to me that most things which would need to be protected from hidden cameras would be stationary and not require the operator to mount the detectors on his body, but starting with mobile constraints is often helpful. I would like to draw attention to this gem of wit, easily the best I've seen in a long time: > I think the idea behind this approach is sound (actually it's light)

Isn't the biggest mobile use case where you don't want to be secretly recorded in public? This was a big concern with the original Google Glass.
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