Tag: CCTV

Public events in the U.K., including football games (which we call soccer here in the good ol' U.S. of A.), may be getting a little security help from smart cameras. New CCTV systems called Smart Eyes use software to scan crowds, and identify anything out of the ordinary. The software is able to flag areas of a concert audience, allowing security personnel to better focus their monitoring ...

Now that the dust from the recent U.K. parliamentary elections appears to have settled, the new Liberal Democrat/Tory coalition government has wasted no time in publicizing its new agenda. And, as ArsTechnica reports, major changes may be on the horizon. Today, the new government issued its official unified policy statement (.PDF), which aims to reverse many of the controversial policies of the ...

If there is one thing that we've learned here at Switched over the years it's that, while video games may be fun, moving the mechanics of console fun into the physical realm is often far cooler. That's why we're so taken with this electromechanical 'Running of the Bulls' table-top game, inspired by the pre-console games of the mid-20th century . Using a small motor, a timing belt and a ...

In what he says is an effort to combat petty crime, a British businessman is asking wannabe spies to take part in a revolutionary Internet game. Next month, Tony Morgan will launch the crime-fighting service Internet Eyes, which will allow regular citizens to watch for criminal activity through closed-circuit television cameras (CCTVs) installed in businesses around town. According to The Daily ...

On July 23rd, the British Children's Secretary, Ed Balls, announced a plan to spend a potential £400 million (over $675 million) on the installation of closed circuit cameras (CCTVs) in the homes of 20,000 "problem families" -- which include homes with truant children, alcohol abuse, or reports of malnutrition -- according to the Daily Express. The program would put the families under ...

Western media is apparently spreading its degenerative depravity to the People's Republic of China, or at least according to the state-run Chinese television network CCTV. During a recently conducted "man-on-the-street" interview pertaining to the influx of Internet pornography, the channel depicted specifically controversial images and sites accessible through Google.cn (the Chinese version of ...

Intent on preventing people from using their cell phones while driving, police in Manchester, England are trying out a new method that has caused some public concern. Two smart cars equipped with closed-circuit-TV (CCTV) have hit the streets in Greater Manchester in an attempt to spot and punish distracted drivers, according to the BBC. Each of the tiny cars, both of which take turns sitting ...

A pregnant Los Angeles teen was arrested earlier this week after allegedly starting seven fires within two blocks of her house. 19-year-old Amanda Gessner was caught after convenience store cameras caught her chanting, "The fire company is gonna be mad at me!" She was certainly right about that! According to police, Gessner exhibited "pyromaniac tendencies" and had been following firefighters ...

What kind of criminal gets his name and birth-date tattooed on his neck? The simple answer -- not a very bright one. Aaron Evans, a 21-year-old repeat offender with an extremely troubled background, was caught on film breaking into a vehicle setup by U.K. police in a parking lot to catch opportunistic thieves. Evans smashed open the driver's side window of the car and stole a planted GPS ...

It was less than a year ago that closed circuit television (CCTV) security cameras in the UK were given the ability to hear. Now, in some places, those cameras are getting a major upgrade in the form of an artificial intelligence program that law enforcement officials hope will eventually be able to identify and locate specific sounds. The current generation of software is sophisticated enough for ...

We have all ideas (okay, so we know it for a fact) that the Los Angeles Traffic Cam was designed for those living in LA, but we can't help but imagine how drivers in less congested cities could use this to make their own daily commute not seem so bad. NBC4 and 3rd Dimension have teamed up to beam out live video and nearly live still shots from some 270 LA-area traffic cameras to those with ...

Chicago residents are no strangers to the city's many CCTV cameras by this point -- if anyone knows exactly how long to stop at Roosevelt and State to avoid the red-light cam there, you let us know, okay? -- but it looks like this summer is going to bring a new twist to the city's surveillance racket: automated camera monitoring. Video from the several thousand cameras in Chicago's Operation ...

The Get Out Clause -- an unsigned band from Manchester, England -- has used the eyes of the surveillance state to produce its own music video. While Britain currently has an estimated 13-million closed-circuit TV cameras (CCTV), the band only played to 80 of them around the city of Manchester. After playing its song for the CCTV cameras (and anyone else who happened to be around), the band ...