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You're about to commit a crime
and you quickly look for hidden cameras.
All you see is a tv-type screen with a face in it - and those eyes - those eyes - those horrible eyes are following you around as you dodge and weave!
Un-nerved you rush out with nothing, not even hearing the atavar's
voice saying menacingly "Five cameras have photographed and identified you from body- movement patterns."
Too obvious. Must be baked. It uses current technology doesn't it?
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I've never heard of it (I work for the summer in a company that makes various security cameras). It sound neat though. Motion detector/video camera to find the persons head, computer to aim the computer-generated eyes, and a monitor. What if more than one person is there though? Do the eyes get cross eyed, or add another set to the monitor? |
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This is based on the assumption that people not about to commit petty crimes like, or at least don't mind, being intimidated by an environment somewhere out of Orwell's 1984? |
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If all you care about is criminals, just lock the doors.
Much cheaper. |
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In some parts of the world any shop or business without a costly security system is burgled repeatedly and/or its occupants harmed. |
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Tomorrow's World (BBC) had a feature last week about a security camera which emits a burst of broadband white noise when someone passes it. Apparently, primates have a subconscious response to this noise, and *always* look towards it. They tested the camera on a security-system-tester (ie, reformed thief), and he was caught on the camera even though he didn't even realise that he'd looked at it. |
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I thought this idea was going to be about a camera that you could stroke and cuddle if you were feeling a bit worried or lonely. |
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Hey knuckle-heads. Eyes on a face on a TV screen, provided the "actor" is "looking at the camera," always appear to be "following you around the room." Erp. In order to be effectively creepy, it would have to be a holographic image doing same. |
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globeltourniquet, do not, would not. |
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big brother is watching us all............... |
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<i>In order to be effectively creepy, it would have to be a holographic image doing same.</i><p> |
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If properly painted and lit, a concave mask can convey quite effectively the illusion that it's always "facing" someone who is within about 30 degrees of being on-axis. Spooky. |
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How about a chatty mannequin's head with camera eyes? |
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Thanks _angel for the interesting note, great improvement for 'Yo Mamma.' But eventually the thieves would likely learn to avoid looking. |
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AFAIK several studies suggest that cameras are not so good as crime-deterrents, policemen do a much better job. |
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when asking one elderly policeman about this, he responded that cameras are simply way cheaper than he and his collegues are. |
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