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Invisible Text Billboard
Billboard that displays text in Infra red
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In order to display secret messages / status reporting for security reasons, i came up with the idea of an invisible billboard.

It simply comprises of a Infra red L.E.D matrix that are connected to a computer.

It can only be viewed with a ccd camera.

So if a company such as a bank or military base or casino etc. want to display discrete signals to a security camera in view, the signals can be picked up by people observing the video.

Drawback -itcan be that it can be seen by people with cellphones. So it should be only directional to the designated camera.


novaris, Mar 04 2008

Invisibling Invisibling
[AbsintheWithoutLeave, Mar 04 2008]


Short name, e.g., Bob's Coffee

Destination URL. E.g., http://www.coffee.com/

Description (displayed with the short name and URL.)







       Um. The effort involved in setting up an addressible infrared billboard is surely much more than simply wiring a message feed to where the security camera ia monitored in the first place?

DrCurry, Mar 04 2008
  

       //it can be seen by people with cellphones// Erm, cellphone cameras, Shirley?   

       Explanatory experiment: Look at the infrared LED on your TV remote through a digital camera's LCD screen, and press a button on the remote. You can see the LED light up.   

       Making an advertising billboard like this might be a good publicity gimmick. Put something strange on it that can only be seen through a digital camera, and see what happens.

baconbrain, Mar 04 2008
  


 
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