Raze your glasses!

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A story in last night's Evening Standard claimed that someone in a US bar was beaten up for wearing Google Glasses. I'm not convinced it's true - details were sketchy - but it does seem to bear out the idea that these things will not be popular because of the invasion of privacy they represent.

So... there has to be a business opportunity here, for anti-Google Goggle devices.

I'm thinking mainly in terms of wearable QR codes that lead to malware or sites that chew up bandwidth / processing power one way or another, or are just intensely annoying; badgers, for example. But there must be other possibilities; strobes that work just outside the visible spectrum but are seen by cameras, for example. Obviously we don't want to be too antisocial, but I have a feeling that there will be a lot of things like this in days to come.

Bujold-related SF thought - did this happen to Simon Illyan a lot? It's canon for Manfred Maxx in the Accelerando universe, of course.

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Or weave some "leaky" optical fibres into your clothing (or even a hairpiece) radiating at the right frequency. Wear chemical light things as necklaces, hair-bands, etc.

You can see infra-red from a remote on my bridge camera's screen, but my iPad camera shows nothing, I suspect that's true of many other cameras. Earlier generation iPhone and iPad cameras did show it - the physics teachers at my school used to demonstrate infa-red that way.