1. HUNDREDS OF PEOPLE
DIED LAST YEAR
BY TRYING THIS AT THE
U.S. \ MEXICO BORDER

Posted at 1:20PM on Jun 29th 2008 by MrHappy

2. Loved this one, great hack and dangerous looking too :)
Also put to a good use, I'd probably chosen some silly joke to project...

Posted at 2:15PM on Jun 29th 2008 by hannes

3. Too bad they didn't use one of these in Shutter, the movie would've ended in 5 minutes and I wouldn't have wasted my money.

Also, very nice set up. A lot of potential fun with something like that, especially in a city.

Posted at 2:34PM on Jun 29th 2008 by winphreak

4. this is an amazing idea... set it up outside some landmark or something lots of people take pictures and just let it run...
Wonder if theres a way that each time it fired you could progress the film and project a different image

Posted at 3:37PM on Jun 29th 2008 by datapirate42

5. My god, this is the coolest hack I've seen all year.

Simple, elegant and extremely effective.

Posted at 3:37PM on Jun 29th 2008 by Wolf

6. Just wait for someone to use one of these to project Jesus' face onto the white house, or religious monuments.

Posted at 6:08PM on Jun 29th 2008 by psychiccheese

7. And here all this time I had just been sneaking into the background and pulling a funny face when I wanted to ruin a picture. :D

Posted at 6:26PM on Jun 29th 2008 by sackofcatfood

8. There's probably some commercial applications for this cool invention, like having a permanent one installed in an art gallery so if you take flash photography of a statue you get an 'embedded' message saying 'no flash photography', or worse; advertisers utilising this technology at tourist traps...

but on the fun side of things, imagine going round a supposed haunted house with a camera and taking a few snaps, seeing the top-half of a ghostly person or a face in the corner of the room in your photos would be quite something

Posted at 8:03PM on Jun 29th 2008 by Haku

9. This remind anyone of the camera in MGS1?

Posted at 9:54PM on Jun 29th 2008 by Wolf

10. I love #8's idea of preventing photos of art works. I know I've done that to cheat me paying a chunk of money for a copy.

Posted at 1:04AM on Jun 30th 2008 by winphreak

11. lol, the guy said he patented it, like it is something revolutionary

Posted at 2:05AM on Jun 30th 2008 by rasz

12. Great, he's ruined people's holiday photos. That's something that's useful and productive towards society.

Does it make him feel big and clever to ruin people's holiday photos? That's so rude. It's not even artistic, as the inventor claims it is. I'm saddened to see so many people thinking this is a good thing. You would not say that if he'd just ruined one of your photos.

Posted at 5:51AM on Jun 30th 2008 by Mark

13. The admins removed my last post in which I described, quite reasonably and without being abusive, why I do not believe this to be a good thing.

Please, just spare a thought for the people with ruined holiday photos.

Posted at 6:08AM on Jun 30th 2008 by Mark

14. The first thing I thought when I saw this was,"English, do you speak it?" That hands down makes this good, but really it just makes it better.

Posted at 7:37AM on Jun 30th 2008 by samual

15. Why would he not patent it? Have you seen this before? This is exactly what the patent system is for. It's not like it's a software patent. It's an awesome idea and the possibilities are endless.

Posted at 8:25AM on Jun 30th 2008 by jakob eriksson

16. >Why would he not patent it? Have you seen this
>before?

yes, its a hand held projector
http://images.google.com/images?um=1&hl=en&client=opera&rls=en&sa=X&oi=spell&resnum=0&ct=result&cd=1&q=handheld+projector&spell=1

with flash detector release mechanism
http://www.glacialwanderer.com/hobbyrobotics/?cat=9

its like those "shopping .. ON THE INTERNET" patents where you add two obvious things and pretend you invented something original

Posted at 11:37AM on Jun 30th 2008 by rasz

17. This made me think of William Gibson's book pattern recognition. The stuff about the gps living memorials thing. Be a cool thing for geocaching. find the spot. take a picture and one of these goes off in a waterproff box, giving you your own personalized token.

Pretty friggin cool.

Posted at 3:08PM on Jun 30th 2008 by Rubicon

18. neat. it'd be really good for making a statement. i like the references to history he used, especially the reichstag burning. i want one. he has all the parts listed and a diagram so i don't get why he patented it but whatever. i still want one.

Posted at 11:07PM on Jul 2nd 2008 by Alek