Amelia Winger-Bearskin
H.A.U.T.E Hidden and Un-Tagable Eyewear
Celebs and adulterers: for a night out or a clandestine encounter; these glasses make your face unrecognizable (and un-tagged) in photographs while keeping you looking stylish and uninhibited.
http://www.inventioninbrooklyn.com/h-a-u-t-e-glasses-at-huge-wearable-event/
Classes
Introduction to Physical Computing
Introduction to Physical Computing
H.A.U.T.E
Hidden and Un-Tagable Eyewear
Celebs and adulterers: for a night out or a clandestine encounter, these shades will keep you shaded from unwanted photographs and Facebook walls.
Using simple inexpensive circuitry and ultra bright LEDs these glasses make your face unrecognizable (and un-taged) in photographs while keeping you looking stylish and uninhibited.
The inexpensive and lightweight glasses have a Strobe mode and a Flash Mode. These have been tested on the google glass which has earned them the nickname the anti-googleglasses. H.A.U.T.E is a playful response to our surveillance culture.
Background
The first assignment in PhysComp asked us if we could create anything what would it be...I choose to look at hiding one's face in photographs using stylish sunglasses, something you would want to wear even if not hiding in photographs. I had positive encouragement from the class and continued this idea for my final project. I first began to try to reproduce this project: http://phys.org/news/2013-01-near-infrared-glasses-thwart-recognition.html
Isao Echizen, associate professor at Tokyo's National Institute of Informatics, jointly with Prof. Seiichi Gohshi of Kogakuin University, are working on infrared LED glasses for evading facial recognition.
However these glasses were not able to evade the facial recognition of the new iPhone camera nor were they able to hide someone from a human user who would be able to recognizer them in an embarrassing photo (e.g. their boss). Using a simple solution of a high powered LED and near infrared I was able to confused facial recognition and blur one's face in a photograph. A bonus is that it works on all digital/Analog cameras as well as iPhones and GoogleGlass.
Audience
Gypsies, Tramps and Thieves.
Anyone who would like to hide their face from an unwanted photo.
User Scenario
I brought these out to Huge's wearable event and had audience members try them on. I took their photos on my iPhone or with their camera (or googleglass). They would then see the instant result -their face was obscured in the photo.
Implementation
These glasses are made of plexi glass
they have a battery and near Infrared LEDs and 1 watt LEDs. I designed the frames with holes for the LEDs, they also are semitransparent so that the light flows through the glasses. Some have dark lenses some do not.
Conclusion
I started off using an arduino micro but quickly learned I could make many of them for a large audience using only a battery, transistor, LEDs and a 555 timer. This makes the cost low and easy to reproduce, I will have 5-6 for the Winter Show ready for people to use.
Hidden and Un-Tagable Eyewear
Celebs and adulterers: for a night out or a clandestine encounter, these shades will keep you shaded from unwanted photographs and Facebook walls.
Using simple inexpensive circuitry and ultra bright LEDs these glasses make your face unrecognizable (and un-taged) in photographs while keeping you looking stylish and uninhibited.
The inexpensive and lightweight glasses have a Strobe mode and a Flash Mode. These have been tested on the google glass which has earned them the nickname the anti-googleglasses. H.A.U.T.E is a playful response to our surveillance culture.
Background
The first assignment in PhysComp asked us if we could create anything what would it be...I choose to look at hiding one's face in photographs using stylish sunglasses, something you would want to wear even if not hiding in photographs. I had positive encouragement from the class and continued this idea for my final project. I first began to try to reproduce this project: http://phys.org/news/2013-01-near-infrared-glasses-thwart-recognition.html
Isao Echizen, associate professor at Tokyo's National Institute of Informatics, jointly with Prof. Seiichi Gohshi of Kogakuin University, are working on infrared LED glasses for evading facial recognition.
However these glasses were not able to evade the facial recognition of the new iPhone camera nor were they able to hide someone from a human user who would be able to recognizer them in an embarrassing photo (e.g. their boss). Using a simple solution of a high powered LED and near infrared I was able to confused facial recognition and blur one's face in a photograph. A bonus is that it works on all digital/Analog cameras as well as iPhones and GoogleGlass.
Audience
Gypsies, Tramps and Thieves.
Anyone who would like to hide their face from an unwanted photo.
User Scenario
I brought these out to Huge's wearable event and had audience members try them on. I took their photos on my iPhone or with their camera (or googleglass). They would then see the instant result -their face was obscured in the photo.
Implementation
These glasses are made of plexi glass
they have a battery and near Infrared LEDs and 1 watt LEDs. I designed the frames with holes for the LEDs, they also are semitransparent so that the light flows through the glasses. Some have dark lenses some do not.
Conclusion
I started off using an arduino micro but quickly learned I could make many of them for a large audience using only a battery, transistor, LEDs and a 555 timer. This makes the cost low and easy to reproduce, I will have 5-6 for the Winter Show ready for people to use.