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silicon.com Classics: The Peeping Tom phone filter

And how it makes bikinis see-through…

Tags: peeping tom, filter, article, developer

By silicon.com

Published: 20 February 2008 10:00 GMT

The latest in our weekly look back through the classic stories of the last decade in the silicon.com archive is a mobile phone camera that gives the user more of an eyeful than they bargained for.

The stuff of teenage boys' dreams was made reality by a developer in Japan through an add-on to mobile handsets.

The add-on was intended as a night-filter to take photos in the dark - but it had an unexpected side effect.

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