News flash! Anti-paparazzi handbag

New York designer Adam Harvey has invented an anti-pap handbag to foil tabloid door-steppers. The bag incorporates a miniature flashgun that’s set to ‘slave’ mode: whenever it detects a flash, it fires itself, washing out the original photo.

The bag, which will get a limited release in early 2010, is expected to be snapped up by celebs fed up with being captured at their most tired and emotional.

However, while some paparazzi are criticising the device, others are claiming that a single slave flash won’t be fast enough to keep up with the barrage of high-speed flashes experienced by an A-lister.

Stuff can’t help wondering how long it is before speeding motorists pick up on the anti-pap handbag to foil speed cameras.

Dan Grabham Editor-in-Chief

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Dan is Editor-in-chief of Stuff, working across the magazine and the Stuff.tv website.  Our Editor-in-Chief is a regular at tech shows such as CES in Las Vegas, IFA in Berlin and Mobile World Congress in Barcelona as well as at other launches and events. He has been a CES Innovation Awards judge. Dan is completely platform agnostic and very at home using and writing about Windows, macOS, Android and iOS/iPadOS plus lots and lots of gadgets including audio and smart home gear, laptops and smartphones. He's also been interviewed and quoted in a wide variety of places including The Sun, BBC World Service, BBC News Online, BBC Radio 5Live, BBC Radio 4, Sky News Radio and BBC Local Radio.

Areas of expertise

Computing, mobile, audio, smart home