Surveillance Screensaver



This is a intriguing yet creepy idea for a screensaver:

SurveillanceSaver is a screensaver which shows live images of over 400 network surveillance cameras worldwide. Yep, when your computer is idle you’ll get to see a live feed of what’s going on in other parts of the world. It’s quite fascinating because of the voyeuristic element involved but also surreal because it compresses time-space.

Something is happening right at the moment elsewhere and you are a witness to it. It is real but since it’s only an image, you tend to question its verity a little more than what you see with your eyes. Sometimes I can’t bear to look away from the screen because I’m always expecting something to happen just that moment, maybe a car accident or a cute girl would enter into the frame.

Available for OS X and Windows version (but not Vista, supposedly): Link - Thanks Jon Jason!


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Posted on February 27, 2008 at 6:53 am by Alex
Category: Science & Tech

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2 comments to "Surveillance Screensaver"

  • Jaycatt
    February 27th, 2008 at 5:35 pm

    This is very cool… Some of the images don’t update real-time, but others are almost once a second. However, the screen saver isn’t “instant off” when you move the mouse, so that bit is a little annoying. Well, unless my PC is slower and that’s the cause. Still, a nice screen saver.

  • Ali S.
    February 27th, 2008 at 8:29 pm

    Wow. I can’t wait to try this out. It’s a bit voyeuristic in a sense wanting to see what others are doing and I can guess that many who use this will want to continue looking at the images to see if anything “interesting” will happen. I guess this must be what a security guard must feel like when they are sitting there looking at the screens all day.

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