Along with other troubling aspects of the modern age, Facebook has undeniably turned friends into blatant paparazzi, who tag unflattering photographs at the slightest whim, pull out cameras at inappropriate moments and obsess over comments on their incessantly updated albums.
Now, thanks to the Anti-Paparazzi Clutch Bag by NYU student inventor Adam Harvey, you can safely make out with random people and fall asleep on the bar with no early morning photo notifications! If you’re a woman or a clutch purse-wielding man, that is. For other camera shy men, Harvey is hoping to refine his invention to fit into something as small as a tie tack, and for women: a pendant.
The modus operandi is simple but brilliant: when the clutch detects a camera flash, it responds with a dueling, and even brighter, LED flash that obscures the photo. The bag’s sensor registers a flash being fired from up to a 45-degree angle each way and works at a 1/125-shutter speed. Thus, low lighting, such as that in a club or on a dark street, actually helps the device to work.
We suggest Lindsay, Paris and Britney order these immediately. (We really don’t need to see any more of those unfortunate getting-out-of-the-SUV-sans-panties photos).
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