The security week: Mosquitoes, advice, and Nirvana

A quotation: I was walking down the street with my friend and he said: “I hear music.” As though there’s any other way to take it in. I said: “You’re not special. That’s how I receive it too. I tried to taste it, but it did not work.”
That’s from sadly deceased excellent American comedian Mitch [...]

Mosquitoes, water and firetrucks

It’s mosquito season again. The estimable Security Installer editor Alan Hyder gives us the lowdown on a new report by Belgian experts into the medical effects of the ‘Mosquito’ teenager repelling device. We’ve reported on it in the past – here, and also here – and I threw in my whining workshy liberal opinion for [...]

More on the Louis Vuitton stores CCTV campaign

Following our photostory the other week, here’s another blog with photos of the Louis Vuitton CCTV campaign in New York. It looks quite fancy at night, doesn’t it?

HD, Alan’s views, and risky travel

Security Installer Alan Hyder has put his opinion-generating suit on today, and gone swimming in the metaphorical sea of ideas that surround him, gathering security concepts and views like so many pretend fish in his journalistic thought-net. In other words, he’s gone and written another Editor’s View, and it’s very very interesting indeed. Indeed! Very.
Sanyo [...]

CCTV for Scottish shoppers – and gold!

Shopping. It’s the process of handing over currency in exchange for goods and services, and is a cornerstone of the capitalist system. It’s particularly important if we are to acquire foodstuffs and other goods. One of the places Scottish people – and people in Glasgow who are not necessarily Scottish (the centre does not discriminate) [...]

Golf and football

It’s the start of a new working week, so what better way to commemorate the weekend that has just occurred – and those still to come – than with a couple of stories that contain some kind of link between security and sport? Answer: There IS nothing better.
We’ve got a very special report on the [...]

Robocop commutes

Following my previous post, Paul Trendall of Carlisle Security emailed me with this:
Sticking with your Robocop theme ……………..
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They are, of course, our Travel Safe Officers.
Any other security Robocops out there?

The security week: Mannequins and hybrid power

If Robocop was fashioned entirely from synthetic materials rather than being a pioneering cyborg; and if his one major technological innovation was a CCTV recording system inserted in his head, he would have had a lot in common with the security mannequins currently being tested by Displaysense. Of course, Robocop was only a film, with [...]

The mannequins are watching you

It’s a standard issue nightmare: you’re in a shop, doing a bit of mild shoplifting, when suddenly you notice that the store mannequins are staring at you. You freak out and run out of the premises, leaving your illegal non-purchases behind. The disturbing image of that dummy and its piercing glare haunts you for the [...]

Enviro-friendly CCTV

There’s an Irish-Indian flavour to today’s news missive, for no reason other than that is what we felt like. And also where the news was.
So here goes. An Irish company is distributing a wind and solar-powered CCTV system. This uses the actual environment to power itself. It totally dominates nature. But in a non-destructive way. [...]