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September 9, 2013 11:23 pm GMT

Anti-Surveillance Dresses Shield Wearer at First Sight of Cameras

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Shielding their faces from paparazzi’s lenses is the mode du jour for celebrities hoping to avoid getting their photo taken. But designer Ying Gao, a professor at the Université du Québec à Montréal, has a different proposition. Gao created a pair of diaphanous dresses that protect its wearer from a camera’s gaze by thwarting the resulting image.

One dress, which is seemingly soft and fluid, begins to change shape, thanks to an underlying motor mechanism, so that the resulting picture ends up blurry. The second dress has inbuilt lights, which causes overexposure when the camera’s flash goes off. The dresses are cleverly built with a structure of microprocessors, sensors, motors and lights hidden under the delicate fabric. The sensors pick up when a camera flashes to begin reacting. Gao tells Wired: Read more...

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