AVG's Invisibility Glasses, ZTE's Eye Scanning Phone, and More
Security company AVG recently unveiled a proof of concept set of invisibility glasses. They won’t turn you invisible like Harry Potter’s invisibility cloak. What they will do is protect your visual identity by making it difficult for cameras and facial recognition technology to get a clear view of your face.
They use infrared LEDs to break face detection and retro-reflective specialist materials to send light back to the camera, thus distorting the camera sensor.
Developed by AVG Innovation Labs, the invisibility glasses look like this.
Again, I remind you that these glasses, at this stage, are just a proof of concept.
In related news...
AVG presented the invisibility glasses in Spain, just before the Mobile World Congress (MWC). At the MWC, ZTE introduced the Grand S3 smartphone.
While the iPhone and the Samsung Galaxy use fingerprint recognition, this smartphone uses eyeprint recognition – instead of scanning your fingerprint, it scans your eye.
The ZTE Grand S3 features EyeVerify’s Eyeprint ID, a pioneering eye-based biometric solution that is capable of verifying an eyeprint in less than a second.
In further related news...
We’ve talked about glasses that can disrupt facial recognition software and smartphones that can scan your eye to unlock. Let’s move on to glasses that cure color blindness – the EnChroma CX sunglasses.
The interesting thing is that these glasses were discovered by accident. Dr. Don McPherson, while designing eye-protection glasses for laser-surgeons, gave said glasses to a color blind friend. Thus he discovered that the special lenses fixed the friend’s color blindness.
They use infrared LEDs to break face detection and retro-reflective specialist materials to send light back to the camera, thus distorting the camera sensor.
Developed by AVG Innovation Labs, the invisibility glasses look like this.
Again, I remind you that these glasses, at this stage, are just a proof of concept.
In related news...
AVG presented the invisibility glasses in Spain, just before the Mobile World Congress (MWC). At the MWC, ZTE introduced the Grand S3 smartphone.
While the iPhone and the Samsung Galaxy use fingerprint recognition, this smartphone uses eyeprint recognition – instead of scanning your fingerprint, it scans your eye.
The ZTE Grand S3 features EyeVerify’s Eyeprint ID, a pioneering eye-based biometric solution that is capable of verifying an eyeprint in less than a second.
In further related news...
We’ve talked about glasses that can disrupt facial recognition software and smartphones that can scan your eye to unlock. Let’s move on to glasses that cure color blindness – the EnChroma CX sunglasses.
The interesting thing is that these glasses were discovered by accident. Dr. Don McPherson, while designing eye-protection glasses for laser-surgeons, gave said glasses to a color blind friend. Thus he discovered that the special lenses fixed the friend’s color blindness.
