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Real Life Spy Gadgets That Anyone Can Buy

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the show-cams-and-pen-grenades dept.

Ant writes "Here is a collection of "spy equipment" found for sale around the Internet. Everything listed is completely real, is sold at online stores, and almost any item listed here costs less than $500, and often times can be bought for less than $200. Seen on Compfused."

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  1. This reminds me of a Discovery Channel show I saw. by rob_squared · · Score: 4, Interesting

    It dealt with spy satellites. The narrator mentioned that the video surveillance they showed in the program was from the 1960s and 70s and said that the actual resolution and what it could detect nowadays was classified. I'm pretty sure the 1970s shots could identify cars.

    Has to make you wonder, if this is what we can buy, what can the government make today?

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  2. My constant question: where's the digital Minox? by timothy · · Score: 4, Interesting

    In other words, WW007D?

    I want a Minox B. No, I don't want to pay for an *actual* Minox; don't have enough banks robbed yet. Also, tiny film cassettes, finicky jewel-like mechanisms, etc.

    What I want is a modern, digital, Minox-alike that is:

    a) The size of a fat thumb or however you'd describe one of these: http://www.kameramuseum.de/1minox/minox-b.html

    b) Not notably ugly and lo-res like this: http://www.emediawire.com/releases/2005/1/prweb195 316.htm

    (The size of that thing is OK, though, but it's ugly in colors and shape; I could overlook those things, or cover all the but lens with a paper bag, if the resolution wasn't so poor.)

    c) more brick-like than some of Sony's smallest, which otherwise are quite nice; I don't like the roundedness of some of the U-Series, but the the U50 (swivel and all) is close to a digital Minox. http://www.dpreview.com/reviews/specs/Sony/sony_ds cu50.asp I like that it uses AAA batteries, too; a single AA would be even better than 2 AAAs, but life isn't perfect. Maybe I'll find a good deal from eBay on a U50 ...

    timothy

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  3. Re:Private Eye by ettlz · · Score: 3, Interesting
    Personally, I'd rather collect bladed weapons over stuff like this.

    You weren't the dude who surrendered that bloody great bat'leth to the Police in the recent knife amnesty, were you?

  4. Envelope X-Ray by GigsVT · · Score: 3, Interesting

    That envelope X-ray spray is just dust off. Hold the can of dust-off upside down and spray the envelope.

    Doesn't work well with security envelopes, but works fine with normal ones.

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  5. Re:Peephole Reverser! by kenthorvath · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Actually a peephole reverser is quite easy to make. In most hotels, for instance, the peephole to your door is made of two tubes that thread together. Simply unscrewing the hole from one end allows you to remove it, and when placed head to head with another peephole will allow you to see inside unobstructed. I discovered this once at a hotel that I stayed at when the construction crew had dropped one in the hallway. It's pretty nifty, but the field of view is only a few degrees, so unless the object of interest is standing directly in front of the door, you are not going to see much of the inside.