Giving CCTV cameras a friendly appearance
November 30th, 2008 by James
Concerned about surveillance cameras invading your privacy? Don’t worry, some friendly people are helping make sure you’ll hardly even notice the cameras spying on you. Here are two examples from Japan:
1. Daruma-san is watching you.
The city of Takasaki in Gunma Prefecture, hometown of the Daruma doll, has found a way of combining its famous dolls with surveillance cameras. Shoppers and customers of local businesses have been installing cameras within one of the eyes of special Daruma dolls. The dolls have “this is a surveillance camera” painted on their bodies, but they look friendlier than most security cameras.
2. Pretty wooden cameras
In this video clip, we are shown a ryokan in Kyoto that is using a surveillance camera with a wooden body. It is thought that such cameras can give business owners a greater sense of security while not interfering with the traditional beauty of Japanese style wooden buildings.
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A friend from Japan gave me a Daruma as a present, but mine doesn’t have a security camera inside. ^^
Personally, I’m waiting for the Ukiyoe with the eyes as cameras.
nauseating.
Man this video showed me sides that I didn’t even knew existed in the Japanese :
A)Japanese crying.
B)Japanese fat .
c)Japanese wiping the nose with bare hands ? (what happend to tissues?).
D)Japanese teasing eachother like that .
Did you think we were cyborgs or something?
Oh great, you just gave away the big secret.
Next thing I know, you’ll be telling them about the recent upgrades we all got that allows us to now mimic the crying and horseplay of other organic meatbags…. er, I mean, humans.