Chuck Bednar for redOrbit.com - @BednarChuck Best known as a freeware Internet security and personal protection software developer, Czech Republic-based AVG has announced a new product designed to help prevent facial recognition technology from determining a person’s identity. The company is calling them “invisibility glasses,” and according to Gizmodo, the new eyewear utilizes a set of infrared LEDs located around the eyes and nose that can only be seen by a digital camera to keep facial recognition software from getting a lock on your facial features. [STORY: New invisibility cloak could help surgeons, drivers] The LED lights on the device, which is currently in the concept stage, obscures those regions of the face when a person or computer attempts to take his or her picture. [caption id="attachment_111334" align="aligncenter" width="617" caption="Credit: AVG"][/caption] Furthermore, the glasses are covered in a retro-reflective material that directs the light given off by a camera flash back at the camera itself, causing the photograph to be overexposed, the website added.
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