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Project Subliminal Messages into People's Photos

By Glen Taylor - June 25, 2008

in Tech | Object Culture

Julius von Bismarck's Image Fulgurator is a sure way to mess with peoples photos at any popular tourist spot. Using a flash-triggered sensor, a slide with your message is projected onto the surface of the target area at the exact time an unsuspecting tourist takes a photo. Providing they use a flash of course. The result is a photo with a secret message embedded in it that wasn't visible to the photographer when the shot was taken.

There's a video demonstrating the Fulgurator in action but it's not so great, we'd love to see some actual photo samples on the site, the idea is awesome. The project just picked up a 2008 Golden Nica award at ARS Electronica in the Interactive Art category and a patent for the device has been submitted.

via boing boing

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Octonode

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Good point SaveOurSkyline. In fact an infrared projection would show up on any digital camera.
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MANO

16 years ago

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nice, even better if they are using film... the digital age will have them checking the photo seconds after...
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SaveOurSkyline

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You could do something similar, projecting infrared light that would show up on a person's video recording.
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meme

16 years ago

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great idea.. tho i'd change the image in the example, you cant take a picture of the mona lisa using a flash ;)
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GBUK

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Excellent! I have seen something like that (but different) at the Design Museum in London during the Brit Insurance Design of the Year 2008 exhibition, where you had to take a photo (with your phone for instance) to be able to see what was written/drawn on a black wall... very engaging!
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Shawn Adrian

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Haha, this is awesome. I totally want to try that.
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keep

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I like the application. A few years back at Universal Studios in Florida after the King Kong ride you could stand and get a photo taken with the giant ape but of course it cost money. Anyway, to keep people from taking their own they used a similar system, when a flash went off it strobed a bright light effectively over exposing your photo.
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