Scared of Face Detection Software? Try These Insane Light-Up Glasses

Also known as a 21st-century chastity belt.

google glass facial recognition disrupter
Because this doesn’t look sketchy at all. (Screengrab: YouTube)

People are freaking out about Google Glass’s facial recognition capabilities, because apparently people are super-important government spies who cannot be recognized by Glassholes under any circumstances.

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Luckily, Japan’s National Institute of Informatics has created these stylish, discreet glasses to intercept facial recognition software, according to Gizmodo. Because if you don’t want people to look at you, a pair of wired glasses with 11 LED lights will definitely help with that.

Regular, non-Glass-wearing passersby won’t see the light issuing from the glasses, but they will see the white plastic mini-bulbs all over the bridge and lenses, as evidenced by the picture above. So the glasses function not only as privacy insurance, but also as birth control.

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Scared of Face Detection Software? Try These Insane Light-Up Glasses