‘Image Fulgurator’ ruins photos with hilarious results
- June 26th, 2008
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Skip ahead to about the two minute mark in the above video to see an example of what the Image Fulgurator actually does. It’s basically a device that projects your favorite messages onto various surfaces when it detects flashes from nearby cameras. No tourist would be safe from your hilarious “Down with Pants!” message splashed across all their photos from the Basilica di Santa Maria.
It was designed by Julius von Bismarck and there’s a patent pending on the device. One possible downside is that it almost looks like a submachine gun, which might make it harder for merry pranksters to move about stealthily. Photos after the jump.
weatherman
2008-06-26 11:05:06
Funny, but I know I’d be pissed as hell if I went all the way to visit someplace and take a pic, only to find on my return that my picture had been ruined by some prankster.
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Little Red Ryan Hood
2008-06-26 12:58:01
@Weatherman
I’d be way more pissed if I went on vacation and my photos were ruined by “Be Young, Have Fun, Drink Pepsi” or “official licensed available at the Statue of liberty gift shop” than if my photo was done by a prankster to say “all persons included in this photo are homosexuals.”
The capacity of this device to ruin things via advertising is way worse than the issue with pranksters.
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hawk88
2008-06-26 13:26:29
Turn off the flash?
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Belanos
2008-06-26 13:30:55
This is a cool idea and a nifty invention BUT….
Whoever made the video is an idiot. First it could be about 2 minutes shorter. Do we really need to sit through all that footage of people taking pictures and looking around? AND the too long footage of the guy driving his car? EDIT EDIT EDIT
THEN…the video does a REALLY poor job of showing what the invention can do. How about showing us a picture of the projection on something without writing on it already?
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