Blind Cameras with an Infrared LED Hat
Add an array of infrared LEDs to your hat to create an invisible mask. Infrared LEDs are invisible to the human eye, but are visible to cameras. Thus, if you throw a dozen of them on your hat, they blind security cameras and hide your face. We know that IR Leds are great for night vision, but they can also easily blind cameras. Hopefully some new security cameras will be able to resist this trick so criminals aren’t totally incognito.
August 16th, 2009
NICE I BEEN WAITING ON A DAMN CAMO SUIT YOU SIMPLIFIED IT
September 10th, 2011
Infrared leds can blind you. Your retina doesn’t contract, and you basically are just baking your retina. So anybody looking at this hat can be damaging their vision permanently. Infrared light can also create astigmatisms.
If this becomes common enough, or even uncommon enough, an infrared filter will simply be placed over the lens of the camera, and it’s probably been done for 99% of surveillance cameras anyhow.
December 15th, 2011
@Richard Wicks
Infrared leds emit a very small amount of light comparatively. When that light travels across distances, its power dissipates substantially. At 3 feet, these 8 leds are probably not harmful. I would guess we get more infrared light than that from the sun.
As far as 99% of security cameras having infrared filters, I’m not sure. But any night vision camera works on infrared light and cannot have the filter in place.