Alerting Earpiece by Bohlale Mphahlele
by GhostAngel22
Alerting Earpiece by Bohlale Mphahlele
by GhostAngel22
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“Earrings” is an interesting choice for this edit.
Yeah those are totally fucking discreet. Nobody would ever notice them
A 16 year old student in South Africa just built a smart safety earring to protect women during an attack.
The wearable hides a tiny camera and alert system inside a normal looking earring, letting it quietly capture images of an attacker and send the user’s live location to emergency contacts or police within seconds.
Eshanee Gopal created the idea in response to South Africa’s gender based violence crisis, where attacks can happen suddenly and victims often do not have time to reach for a phone.
By embedding security tech into everyday jewelry, this shows how accessible design can make personal safety immediate, wearable, and much harder for attackers to disable.
The Alerting Earpiece works with stunning simplicity.
By pressing a hidden button, the device:
1. Quietly capture photos of the attacker using a concealed camera.
2. Sends immediate distress alerts, including the victim’s live location, to trusted contacts and emergency services. This innovative device not only enables faster response times but also provides crucial evidence for legal action, often a missing link in the fight against GBV.
Cool invention, but it’s a shit world we live in when things like this are needed.
But what if it IS the police?
How is it activated?
Attack from the front???
“wait don’t attack me yet let me stick these cameras in my ears first”
How do they know its an attacker?
Alerting the police in South Africa is a complete waste of time. People only do it for insurance claims. Half the time, they’re the criminals.
Ear buds with cameras on them when you have to rotate your head 90 degrees to get a good shot
An earring and earpiece are not the same thing.
This headline didn’t even try.
I’m sure that’s how they’ll be used by Palantir
No, she didn’t. It’s a concept, there’s not so much as a schematic.
Yea just like recording necklaces….. You better make sure you arent caught wearing them in inappropriate places….
Sadly that would be the main use of things like this… Secret hidden recording of others
If it’s ai based how can it differentiate between an attacker and someone on a run that gets to close
https://preview.redd.it/qb1xjm4rbz2h1.png?width=698&format=png&auto=webp&s=3cd13e06d349202f3f5007e81b948b9d860cf94e
The story keeps getting better and better!
I feel like a body warn camera might work better?
For people with giant ear holes.
Where can I buy one?
Nop
Sounds and seems like AI
Yes and if people understood why, it’s heartbreakingly sad what children and adults alike need to endure, to persevere merely to exist! What most people would see during their commutes are billboards with Coke and other advertisements, where as in the slums where few tourists would ever likely go, (not Soweto where Mediba’s crib was or Khayelitsha near Cape Town.) rather ones near in Diepsloot, Lusikisiki or Flagstaff. There are humongous billboards** **saying **HIGH CHANCE OF RAPE / Hijacking area..** poverty can be so so ugly
Alerting police means they may arrive in the next 24 hours
Luv this idea
It sucks to think one would even need those.