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The anti-drone hoodie that helps you beat Big Brother’s spy in the sky
Unmanned surveillance drones are a global concern, but designer Adam Harvey has concocted an outlandish solution.
The anti-drone hoodie that helps you beat Big Brother’s spy in the sky
Unmanned surveillance drones are a global concern, but designer Adam Harvey has concocted an outlandish solution
Tom Meltzer
The Guardian, Sunday 31 March 2013 14.30 EDT
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Blending in? … The anti-drone hoodie, as modelled by Tom Meltzer, keeps surveillance off your back. Photograph: David Levene for the Guardian
I am wearing a silver hoodie that stops just below the nipples. Or, if you prefer, a baggy crop-top with a hood. The piece – this is fashion, so it has to be a “piece” – is one of a kind, a prototype. It has wide square shoulders and an overzealous zip that does up right to the tip of my nose.
It does not, it’s fair to say, make its wearer look especially cool. But that’s not really what this hoodie is about. It has been designed to hide me from the thermal imaging systems of unmanned aerial surveillance vehicles – drones. And, as far as I can tell, it’s working well.
“It’s what I call anti-drone,” explains designer Adam Harvey. “That’s the sentiment. The material in the anti-drone clothing is made of silver, which is reflective to heat and makes the wearer invisible to thermal imaging.”
The “anti-drone hoodie” was the central attraction of Harvey’s Stealth Wear exhibition, which opened in central London in January, billed as a showcase for “counter-surveillance fashions”. It is a field Harvey has been pioneering for three years now, making headlines in the tech community along the way.
https://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2013/mar/31/anti-drone-hoodie-big-brother
