New software from Baltimore Maryland’s Oculis Labs ensures that no one will be reading that lengthy private e-mail from your boyfriend or girlfriend detailing why they’ve been so passive aggressively cold and detached for the past week, while you’re at work, ever again. The desktop privacy application uses a webcam to track the user’s eyes, when the user looks away the screen goes blurry so no one else can snoop on them while they write their resignation letter in their cubicle.  No more accidental disclosure re: the app you’ve been secretly designing where you can quickly edit your co-workers clothing in photos you’ve taken on your I-phone either.  When a co-worker sneaks behind you quietly and pries into the content of your newest unposted blog about Vancouver software companies, their face will pop up on your screen in a convenient thumbnail so you can yell at them and threaten to throw your coffee in their face. My only criticism is that many wise technology sages have said we may be witnessing the death of the desktop computer; so these desktop privacy apps may have to be reconfigured for I-phones and other hand helds if they’re going to turn a real profit for Oculis.

For business travellers and intelligence agents there’s another software app from the company called Chameleon. This software requires a hardware add-on but is awesome. Any text that you read appears completely normal but to anyone else looking at your screen they see a jigsaw of jumbled words. You can read that diatribe e-mail from Jerry in sales where he goes on and on about what a smug a-hole that guy in the Denver office is while on your flight to Denver. Knowing that the really annoying kid behind you who keeps bumping your chair won’t be exposed to the litany of foul language on your screen and procede to ask his mom what a “____________” is.  And then have her get all up in your face, for her kid somehow learning a new word prematurely- like it was your fault. Nope. No more of that. And for the secret agent trying to enjoy a coffee at starbucks while perusing the details of his mission to overthrow a government or assassinate a business magnate who knows too much, no more worrying about pesky over the shoulder spyreading from nearby tables or other spies posing as waiters and barristas, or janitors. The Chameleon software ensures he’s able to enjoy his latte before a hard day at work  involving piano wire, sodium pentathol, and C-4.

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Tags: chameleon, I-phone, Oculis Labs, privacy apps, Vancouver software companies

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