Damn… I wish I’d had one of these during the DNC in August:
In principle, the Fulgurator can be used anywhere where there is another camera nearby that is being used with a flash. It operates via a kind of reactive flash projection that enables an image to be projected on an object exactly at the moment when someone else is photographing it. The intervention is unobtrusive because it takes only a few milliseconds. Every photo another photographer takes of an object at which the Fulgurator is also aimed is affected by the manipulation. Hence visual information can be smuggled unnoticed into the images of others.
The cross projected on to Barack Obama’s podium at the Siegessauele speech is amusing, but the baffled and slightly fearful reaction of the couple in the video taken at Checkpoint Charlie is classic. “There’s something in my picture…but…{whispers} it’s not there!”