Jun 182017
Here’s an interesting product:
The official purpose is to make clothing reflective for joggers and bikers and the like. But it sure seems like alternative uses are possible:
- License plates: for those people plagued by stop light cameras equipped with flash, this would seem to *maybe* provide a way to keep the man from figuring out who you are.
- Celebrities: put this stuff in your makeup and flash-equipped paparazzis are going to have a problem.
- Similar to 1&2, for use on the street by anyone who wants to mess with flash-equipped facial recognition systems. (However, I suspect most such don’t rely on flashes, so this stuff would add no benefit)
- Use on remote controlled devices… your drone or RC car gets lost in the woods, it’d actually be easier to spot at night if you use a flashlight.
- Some sort of “boobytrap:” someone breaks into your home, car or shop, they get dusted with this stuff. Won’t be immediately obvious, but it will be under lights. Of course, there are other approaches, such as UV substances, indelible bright-orange inks or even concentrated sulfuric acid.
The product shown here appears to be basically a spray-on dust, easily wiped off. There is an alternate version that’s supposedly permanent.