Famed Russian yacht - fanatical Roman Abramovich added a raw feature to his 557 - foot , $ 1.2 billion monstrosity , occultation : A optical maser shield that sweeps the boat ’s surroundings for paparazzi and then fire a bolt of light at the camera to destroy any photo .
The laser discover CCDs , or charge - coupled devices , which are used in most ( but not all ; CMOS chips are also around ) photoelectric sensors . sentry go can activate the lasers when they spot any suspicious glint of a camera ’s lens system , which will then shoot a brilliant , focused light straight at the tv camera , ruining any photography .
Predictably , paparazzi ( the only Italian plural I bed , embarrassingly depend like I do n’t know any Italian , and will never feign to know even a undivided word again ) are tempestuous about the laser shield , yammer that :
Intermeddling with good belonging to someone else , or altering their stipulation , is a trespass to goods and will entitle the lensman to claim compensation without having to prove loss .
It might be kind of a lost cause , since it ’s awful toilsome to conceal a 557 - ft boat at all time without , like , sinking it , but anything that involve optical maser shoot at paparazzo sounds fairly good to me . [ Wired ]
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