practicalsolarpunk: vaporwavevocap: jooshcraft:maths-witch:jooshcraft:kasaron:officialmacgyv
practicalsolarpunk: vaporwavevocap: jooshcraft: maths-witch: jooshcraft: kasaron: officialmacgyver: kasaron: Guessing it uses ultrasound? Ultrasonic background noise, yes. Ye, that’s what I’d use. The real question is whether they’re gonna hold the patent close to their chest so they can sell it, or if they’ll open the patent so homegamers can take a crack at building their own. They’ve already put the code and 3D printing models up on github! God bless ‘em Heroes. [Image description: A Facebook post from the New York Times. The text says “2 computer science professors have designed a piece of digital armor: a ‘bracelet of silence’ that will jam any other microphones in the vicinity from listening in on the wearer’s conversations.”An image shows the arm and wrist of a person with light skin and a gray sweater; on their wrist is a thick gray bracelet with silver cylinders sticking out of it all the way around. The article link beneath it is to nytimes.com and the headline reads “Activate This ‘Bracelet of Silence,’ and Alexa Can’t Eavesdrop.” End description] -- source link