Stealth Hoodie Hides Wearer From Drones

Loopi

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Stealth Hoodie Hides Wearer From Drones : Discovery News

Jan 18, 2013 02:38 PM ET // by Jesse Emspak
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Surveillance cameras are ubiquitous, especially in the U.K.. and in the United States, Congress has already approved the use of drones for domestic surveillance. Then there’s the “Stingray” tool used by the FBI to track cell phones. It’s enough to make even those who’ve gotten nothing hide feel nervous.
New York-based artist Adam Harvey doesn’t like it one bit. So he’s taken it upon himself to design anti-surveillance clothing to foil government snoopers.
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Harvey has been looking at the effects of such surveillance on culture for some time. Last year he designed a kind of face makeup called CVDazzle to avert face-recognition software.
In the spirit of fooling cameras – and messing with surveillance – Harvey has now come out in a set of hoodies and scarves that block thermal radiation from the infrared scanners drones use. Wearing the fabric would make that part of the body look black to a drone, so the image would appear like disembodied legs. He also designed a pouch for cell phones that shields them from trackers by blocking the radio signals the phone emits. For those airport X-ray machines, he has a shirt with a printed design that blocks the radiation from one’s heart.
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The materials the clothes are made are specialized and expensive, so these aren’t the kinds of fashions that the local discount store will have – at least not yet. Harvey does plan to offer the clothes for sale, though.
He sees the designs as a kind of conversation about surveillance in society at large. If we’re going to be watched all the time, shouldn’t we find a way to deal with that?
If you want to see Harvey’s work, it will be at Primitive London starting Jan. 17.
 

TnWatchdog

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Do we all need to get ourselves a stealth hoodie, or what? Drones reporting mass exodus of backpacks leaving the city...there are no humans detected.
 

Einstein

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Do we all need to get ourselves a stealth hoodie, or what? Drones reporting mass exodus of backpacks leaving the city...there are no humans detected.

And also an electrically conductive jacket, so you can thwart off a stun gun attack.
 

Octavusprime

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One should be able to design one yourself. It would probably be extremely warm though as you essentially need to insulate your heat signature.
 

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