Do you like to enjoy the bounties of your own body while you’re on an audio-only Skype call? Who doesn’t, right? And so you’ve probably also “accidentally” enabled the camera and inadvertently revealed your shame at some point, too. What you need, my pervy, flashing friend, is the iShutter, a $15 strip of steel with a hole in it.
The iShutter is a physical cover for the iSight camera on your MacBook. It uses the magnets already inside the laptop’s lid, sticking a thing metal strip to the top inside lip. The strip has a lozenge-shaped hole in the center, and you just slide it to the side to side/reveal the lens.
It will certainly work, but is a simple strip of steel really worth $15? I use a piece of duct tape in my more paranoid moments, and that works just fine, as well as lending an air of dystopian techno-futures to my setup.
The iShutter is a Kickstarter, which means a long wait until you actually get a unit shipped to you. March 2014 is the expected date (you’ll have to use a piece of duct tape until then, like me), or you can pay a whopping $30 and get it a month earlier, in February.
Source: Kickstarter
Thanks: Ashley!
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2 responses to “Privacy Protection For The Paranoid: The iShutter iSight Cover”
Thanks for featuring our product, we started conservative on cost and time as we are passionate about quality and making this a US manufactured product. As our project has progressed we are now confident we can be more aggressive. Today we introduced a new “Budget” reward at $10 that allows you to receive your own iShutter. All other rewards will receive 1 extra copy (Black + Silver edition for each reward).
Furthermore all products will now be delivered by end of January and the limited pilot builds ($30) will be delivered before the holiday’s. We hope you like the updates and we welcome any feedback that can help make this a success.
The iShutter team
Great! Glad to see Cult of Mac pick up on this gem. I supported it. I am all for making things in the US again and besides I think the metal looks much more stylish then the black electrical tape I have there now ;)