No Camera Phone Pictures Here

No camera phone pictures or other digital camera pictures are going to be able to take shots with a new technology talked about on Cnet.

Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology have come up with an inexpensive way to prevent digital cameras and digital video cameras from capturing that secret shot.

The technology they’ve devised detects the presence of a digital camera up to 33 feet away and can then shoot a targeted beam of light at the lens, according to Shwetak Patel, a grad student at the university and one of the lead researchers on the project.

That means that someone trying for a surreptitious snapshot of, say, a product prototype or an amorous couple gets something altogether less useful–a blurry picture (or a video) of what looks like a flashlight beam, seen head on.

Read the rest at Cnet.

September 20th, 2005 Posted by David in News at 7:24 am Comment Now! »
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