With the spread of security cameras, Wi-Fi networks and facial recognition software, it's easier than ever for companies and the government to track users. While there are some ways to stop cameras from tracking your face, most of them require absurd clothing styles or over-the-top actions. Thankfully, security company AVG has created an accessory that may help.
Engadget reports that AVG has built a pair of "privacy glasses" that would protect wearers from having their faces recognized by software. The glasses hold an infrared LED light that, when activated, messes with the filter on most cameras and blurs the vision. This way, the camera cannot recognize who the wearer is.
The glasses also have a reflective rim that would refract a photo flash back at a camera and blur the wearer's face if needed. While this sounds functional, the fact that the user would have to turn the glasses on in order to avoid detection would be problematic, as well as noticeable. It's hard to miss someone with a large LED light on his or her forehead.
While this device might be appealing to some security-averse users, it's not clear when it would be available for purchase. AVG is still in the experimental stage with the glasses and doesn't expect to release such a product on the market any time soon.
If users are truly interested in devices that would make them invisible, companies have designed invisibility cloaks and light-refracting jackets to help users blur images and avoid detection.
