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New technology that’s going to make you want to kill somebody

Posted on 26. Jun, 2008 by Jonathan Cherry in Totally Whack

This gentleman may look like a demented IRA terrorist starring in a Tarrantino movie, but the devise he’s fooling around with is far more dangerous than any nickel-plated .45.

This gun-like camera thing is called an Image Fulgurator. It is a device for physically manipulating photographs. It intervenes when a photo is being taken, without the photographer being able to detect anything. The manipulation is only visible on the photo afterwards.

In principle, the Fulgurator can be used anywhere where there is another camera nearby that is being used with a flash. It
operates via a kind of reactive flash projection that enables an image
to be projected on an object exactly at the moment when someone else is
photographing it. Every photo another photographer takes of an object at which the Fulgurator is also aimed is affected by the manipulation. Hence visual information can be smuggled unnoticed into the images of others.

Just imagine if every tourist photograph of Table Mountain had a ghostly Vodacom logo embedded in the bottom right hand corner of it – just in the name of advertising.
Crappy is not the right word for it, but no doubt some idiot will see merit in the concept and spam us all.

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