Next-generation smartglasses: Harvard students' invention provides instant information about all people in sight

Two Harvard University students have demonstrated an invention of their own that is as interesting in terms of its technical possibilities as it is potentially unfavourable to society.

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AnhPhu Nguyen and Caine Ardayfio have created smart glasses that automatically identify everyone in sight and give out full information about them that is available online.

The students used Ray-Ban smart glasses from Meta, which are freely available for sale, and used their own software to integrate Pimeyes, a service designed to recognise faces and search for information about people. As a result, the glasses automatically take a photo of everyone in the lens and automatically upload the shot to the Pimeyes service, after which the information is displayed on a smartphone and the user can find out the name, phone number, address, marital status, car number and public posts on social networks.

The students showed their invention, which they called Project I-XRAY, in practice and used the data to cleverly strike up a conversation with random people on the underground, addressing them by name.

AnhPhu Nguyen and Kane Ardaifio said they would not put the details of their software in the public domain and would not sell "miracle glasses", they just wanted to demonstrate the possibilities of modern technology - and they succeeded.

Their project cannot be called revolutionary, but in one device young people have combined several technologies and got an interesting device.

Source: X