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European Union Tests Automated Aeroplane Seat-Back Spy Cams to Detect Terrorism Faces
5:30AM Jason Chen | The European Union’s Security of Aircraft in the Future European Environment (SAFEE) is testing some kind of nebulous facial detection system that will suss out whether your expression is one of a terrorist planning on commandeering the ride or just diarrhea face. More »
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A Gallery of CIA Spy Cameras
5:30AM Wilson Rothman | In celebrating the launch of Spycraft, I’ve looked at all kinds of gadgets, but the bread and butter of Cold War CIA gear were tiny cameras and listening devices. The bugs aren’t so exciting to look at, though the stories of their placement make great reading. The cameras, on the other hand, always come in clever “concealments.”
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YOTO T I-PEN Spy Camera Has Built-In Memory For Convenient Office Stakeouts
3:15AM Jason Chen | Pen spy cameras usually work wirelessly in conjunction with a base, beaming images surreptitiously onto a recording device or a monitor so you can enjoy them from afar. This YOTO pen, however, has the storage built in, meaning you’ll have to wait until later to watch those 15FPS 352×288 videos or look at those 640×480 still pics. Just be careful how many times you drop this under the secretary’s desk, or else you’ll be not only out of a job, but probably have some criminal charges on your head too. [Yoto via imp3 via PMPToday] More »
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Cankle Fetishists Rejoice Over AC Brick Spy Camera
2:00AM Mark Wilson | This AC wall adaptor is no ordinary AC wall adaptor. It’s loaded with an A/V recorder that can save 66 hours of footage to its 2GB microSD card. And even if the wall socket is turned off, a built-in lithium ion battery will keep shooting for 3 hours of glorious, socket-height footage. Yes, that’s the extreme low angle stuff. We’re talking shoes. We’re talking you didn’t vacuum under that couch. It’s just more evidence piling up to an unavoidable fact. In the future, everyone will know what everyone else looks like naked. Or we’ll at least have some hot shots of one another’s bare feet. [product via ohgizmo] More »
Spy Camera Sunglasses With 1.3-Megapixels Means Nothing’s a Secret
6:30AM Jason Chen | Sunglass spy cameras were previously relegated to actual spies and weirdos that subscribed to those spy equipment magazines, but ThinkGeek has brought such covert voyeurism to the average man with US$99 and change. The camera’s triggered wirelessly via remote, which is very discreet, but has a fat camera on either side of the lenses, which isn’t. Luckily for you the 1GB storage and MP3 earbud playback gives you a reasonable excuse as to why you’re wearing such thick sunglasses in the Gold’s Gym women’s locker room. [Think Geek via Red Ferret via Boing Boing] More »
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Spy Camera Hidden in a Book Could Use a Better Book to Hide In
10:30AM Adam Frucci | As if you needed yet another household object to hide a spy cam in, here’s a book camera. It hides a pinhole camera and microphone and can record video for you to check out from afar. The only problem? It’ll cost you over $1,500, which is more than some therapy to get you over your addiction to peeping would set you back. Oh, another problem would be trying to sneak that Marcia Clark book into someone’s shelf without them noticing. I mean, really, is that the most subtle book they could find? Were they out of copies of I Might Be Wrong, But I Doubt It by Charles Barkley? [Product Page via Red Ferret] More »
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Spy Camera Hides in Chewing Gum Wrapper
12:25AM Mark Wilson | This little audio/video spy camera from Chinavision will put a touch of James Bond in your Juicy Fruit. Sized perfectly to slide inconspicuously into a gum wrapper, swallowing the camera in dire emergencies will become far more palatable. Sure the specs leave a lot to be desired, as a 176×144 video in 3GP format (mobile phone MPEG4) isn’t going to convince any international court that these women having towel fights in locker rooms need to be stopped. But the 2GB MicroSD slot should make room for plenty of video. Buy it in small, wholesale lots for about $US30 a unit. [product via 7gadgets] More »
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