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Re:Stealth Wear Aims to Make a Tech Statement by mindcrime on Saturday June 29, 2013 @09:37PM (#5964380)
If 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?

Re:Stealth Wear Aims to Make a Tech Statement by doctorstupid on Saturday June 29, 2013 @06:01PM (#5963852)
I think that P.K. Dick saw the future with his 'scramble suits': http://www.technovelgy.com/ct/content.asp?Bnum=997

...the wearer of a scramble suit was Everyman and in every combination...

Re:Stealth Wear Aims to Make a Tech Statement by kstop on Saturday June 29, 2013 @07:13PM (#5964035)
...now made irrelevant by gait analysis.
Re:Stealth Wear Aims to Make a Tech Statement by mindcrime on Saturday June 29, 2013 @10:58PM (#5964525)
Couldn't you deter that by just putting a rock in your shoe?
Re:Stealth Wear Aims to Make a Tech Statement by MonkoftheFunk on Sunday June 30, 2013 @09:24AM (#5965690)
little brother style
Re:Stealth Wear Aims to Make a Tech Statement by ctdonath on Saturday June 29, 2013 @10:14PM (#5964453)
Why 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...

Re:Stealth Wear Aims to Make a Tech Statement by iacvlvs on Monday July 01, 2013 @06:32AM (#5969719)
From TFA: "In theory, this limits one’s visibility to aerial surveillance vehicles employing heat-imaging cameras to track people on the ground."
Re:Stealth Wear Aims to Make a Tech Statement by melloclello on Saturday June 29, 2013 @10:28PM (#5964472)
To illustrate the difference in visibility, I'd imagine.