You've got to see this video (scroll down), but first meet Julius von Bismarck. He invented something remarkable. His invention is the "Image Fulgurator" and it projects stealth images into the photographs of strangers, but keeps the images invisible to human eyes.
In the photo: Julius von Bismarck fires his Fulgurator
In the photo: Julius von Bismarck fires his Fulgurator
The Image Fulgurator is a device for physically manipulating photographs. It intervenes when a photo is being taken, without the photographer being able to detect anything. The manipulation is only visible on the photo afterwards.
In principle, the Fulgurator can be used anywhere where there is another camera nearby that is being used with a flash. It operates via a kind of reactive flash projection that enables an image to be projected on an object exactly at the moment when someone else is photographing it. The intervention is unobtrusive because it takes only a few milliseconds. Every photo another photographer takes of an object at which the Fulgurator is also aimed is affected by the manipulation. Hence visual information can be smuggled unnoticed into the images of others.
Picture this: Its a warm and sunny summer weekend in San Francisco. Tens of thousands of tourists from all over the world have converged on Fisherman's Wharf. They collectively snap hundreds of thousands of photographs.
Imagine their astonishment when they find the Starbucks logo superimposed on absolutely all their pictures.
Now ... let your imagination soar and ask yourself what other kinds of fun can someone have with Julius von Bismarck's Fulgurator.
Watch this mini video drama starring Julian von Bismarck's Fulgurator!
I first learned about the Fulgurator from Wired. com and here's link to the story.
When you're ready to go to von Bismarck's website, here it is.
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