The Mega Mini Spy Camera Ultra: For Covert Ops

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Have you ever found yourself deep behind enemy lines, hidden by the capricious shadows as you carefully listen in on an enemy planning brief? Of course you have, we've all been there. And we all know how down-and-out annoying it is to be without a camera or audio recorder when the psychopaths you've been tailing admit to their nefarious deeds. Thanks to BrickHouse Security, you need never be in this position again.

Their Mega Mini Spy Camera Ultra is small enough to fit inside a clenched fist, but capable of taking 640 x 480 30 FPS video. It can accept 16 GB micro SD cards, and comes with two rechargeable batteries. BrickHouse brags that their gadget can fit up to 250 hours of video onto one 16 GB card, which gives you plenty of time to get in and out of that tiny despotic nation with the secret intel you need.

Posted on Thu, 19 Nov 2009 10:03:38 CST | by Robert Evans

1 in 63 Smartphones Infected with Spyware or malware

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A study conducted by SMobile Systems, a provider of mobile phone security software has found that 1 in 63 mobile phones is infected with spyware or malware. The study was done with 1,958 smartphones and reveled they were infected with spyware, viruses, works, and Trojans.

In addition to the malware, the phones were also littered with unlicensed programs. The study predicts that the number of infected devices globally reaches into the millions. Most users are unaware that their devices are infected says the company. Read more

Posted on Thu, 30 Jul 2009 12:00:00 CDT | by Shane McGlaun

Spy on your Plants with the Gardenwatch Cam

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Have you ever wondered how in the hell this flower in your garden suddenly was blooming in the morning and it was not even visible the day before? I have. Now Think Geek offers the Gardenwatch Cam that makes it easy to spy on your plants in the garden.
This flower surveillance camera is housed in a weather resistant plastic and features a 1.3MP CMOS. The easy to use camera lets you choose multiple time settings to take time lapse photos of your garden. Read more

Posted on Wed, 24 Jun 2009 02:33:08 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

Mobile Spy for the iPhone; iLife gets Creepy.

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Thanks to Retina-X Studios you can now spy on your friends, family, children, and employees with absolute impunity. The app designer has just released the Mobile Spy 3.0 app for the iPhone, which allows users to surreptitiously monitor everyone who contacts them. The clandestine program runs as a background app, and automatically tracks and records SMS messages, phone calls, and GPS locations.

Get a text from your kid saying he's 'staying late at school'? You can track down where he sent the SMS from and find out whether or not he's telling the truth. You can do the same thing with phone calls, which makes the Mobile Spy app the greatest breakthrough in 'being a creepy stalker' technology since the invention of the binoculars.

Posted on Thu, 28 May 2009 14:15:00 CDT | by Robert Evans

Spyrus Introduces Hydra PC Virus-Protected Encryption Flash Drives

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Spyrus has announced its latest flash drive called the Hydra PC ViP that features on-board virus protection. Stored on the flash drive is the Hydra PC Sentry A-V antivirus scanning application capable of protecting Spyrus flash drives from infection.

The flash drive features automatic identification, detection, and protection against known and unknown threats from malware and viruses. Each file is scanned for a virus before it is encrypted on the flash drive. Read more

Posted on Wed, 4 Feb 2009 13:00:00 CST | by Shane McGlaun

WowWee Spyball unveiled

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WowWee unveiled the Spyball at the CES 2009 as already featured in our CES unveiled photo coverage.
Spyballs are nothing new. An Israeli startup developed one in 2004 for the Israeli Army and the Pentagon according to DefenseTech. Now anti-terror teams around the globe can just buy a WowWee Spybot to spy out terrorist hideouts. Also it just came to my mind that Sony Ericsson showed in 2005 the Rob-1, which also is a camera built into a steerable ball.

The WowWee Spyball spy-cam is a remote controlled, Wi-Fi enabled, transforming robotic ball that introduces an element of play to telepresence functionality.
WowWee's Spyball spy-cam captures video and still images and is equipped with wheels for fast, smooth mobility and 360-degree turns.
Transforming from ball to camera and back again, the Spyball spy-cam moves with stealth and in disguise
There is no need to access the Internet to see what the Spyball spycam sees – users can make an Ad hoc connection via any Wi-Fi-enabled device including a PC, laptop, video game console or even a cell phone. Read more

Posted on Wed, 7 Jan 2009 02:02:10 CST | by Luigi Lugmayr

CES Unveiled Photos: WowWee Cinemin, Spyball, Joebot and Roborover

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WowWee unveiled their robot and toy line-up for 2009 at the CES Unveiled event on Tuesday. The company engages in a new product category with Cinemin. Cinemin is a suite of mini projectors based on TI's Pico projection technology.
Other new WowWee products include the Spyball, Joebot and Roborover.
The WowWee Spyball is similar to the Spyball the Israeli Army is using. The ball has a camera and can be accessed via Wi-Fi - a simplified Rovio so to say. Read more

Posted on Wed, 7 Jan 2009 01:26:21 CST | by Luigi Lugmayr

WowWee Rovio Spy Robot on Sale for only $199.99 on Amazon

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This holiday shopping season rewards last minute shoppers. Earlier we reported about a $89.99 deal on the TomTom ONE 125 GPS. Now we have also found a great deal on the WoWee Rovio robot on Amazon.com. The roaming wi-fi and webcam sporting robot sells for only $199.99 (List:$349.99). The best deal so far I have seen was $249.
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Posted on Wed, 17 Dec 2008 15:18:21 CST | by Luigi Lugmayr

Rovio versus Spykee Webcam Robot

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This Christmas you can choose between two roaming sentinel robots featuring camera and wi-fi connectivity. The WowWee Rovio ($239.99) challenges the Erector Spykee ($247.65), which was supposed to be available a year ago, but was delayed.
A robot fan with a hand for video named Sven literally made a Rovia versus Spykee video letting the two robots go at it each other in a "box ring". See the video below.
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Posted on Fri, 5 Dec 2008 00:26:18 CST | by Luigi Lugmayr

Spy Camera Pass Card ideal for Industrial Espionage

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The Hong Kong gadget shop Brando always has some unique gadgets showing up in their offering. The Spy Camera Pass Card even has a questionable purpose.
Many companies or service employees wear security pass cards. This Spy gadget hides behind such official looking cards.
With this Spy card you can capture still photo, record video and audio onto the built-in 4GB of storage. Read more

Posted on Thu, 23 Oct 2008 02:31:32 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

MINOX Spy Camera Gets Digital Treatment

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MINOX has made what it calls spy cameras since the digital camera was nothing more than a dream. The firm has updated its famous mini spy camera for the digital age and called it the Digital SpyCam. The new DSC is very small at 3 3/8" x 1 3/16" x 7/8" and weighs 2.1 ounces.

The focal length is 8.5mm making it equivalent to 42mm in 35mm format. Internal memory storage is 128MB and it can accept memory cards up to 16GB. Power comes from a rechargeable lithium-ion battery. Resolution for the camera is 5MP. The Digital SpyCam retails for $199. Read more

Posted on Mon, 20 Oct 2008 09:02:24 CDT | by Shane McGlaun

WowWee Rovio Spy Robot on Sale

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WowWee unveiled the exciting Rovio Spy Robot at the CES 2008 in January. Now gadget shop Hammacher Schlemmer is first to put the Rovio on sale for $299.95. The robotic sentry will ship on September 26th.
The WowWee Rovio allows you to monitor your home from anywhere in the world. Audio and high-resolution (640 x 480px) video is streamed in MPEG4 format, and it can take still pictures and e-mail them to you; it has a two-way microphone and speaker that enables real-time interaction with subjects - for instance your cat.
I had my hopes last year on the Spykee Spy robot, but it got delayed. It will now ship in mid-October. As it looks, WowWee will be first to ship an affordable home surveillance robot. Read more

Posted on Mon, 15 Sep 2008 13:09:14 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

Erector Spykee ships this October, just one Year late

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The Erector Spykee robot was supposed to ship last October. We reported in September 2007 about the robot being offered on Amazon. It never shipped. Now the Erector Spykee product page on Amazon.com has a new shipping date: October 15th. Spykee sells for $299.99.

Features of the Spykee robot include Wi-fi connection, remote control via Internet, video camera, VOIP phone and webcam functionality, music player and auto parking to recharge. Read more

Posted on Sat, 23 Aug 2008 10:20:08 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

New Spy Camera Sunglasses with MP3 Player

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These new sunglasses take the Oakley Thump MP3 glasses to the next level by integrating a hidden photo camera.

The USB Spy Camera Sunglasses has a built-in 2GB flash memory which can store more than 15,000 photos.
The integrated 1.3MP camera takes pictures in 1280x1024px resolution. Read more

Posted on Wed, 30 Jul 2008 06:39:46 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

U.S. Navy shut down Spy Satellite, Earth saved

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The U.S. Navy has successfully destroyed the Spy Satellite that was reported to be out of control a couple weeks ago.

At approximately 10:26 p.m. EST today, a U.S. Navy AEGIS warship, the USS Lake Erie (CG-70), fired a single modified tactical Standard Missile-3 (SM-3) hitting the satellite approximately 247 kilometers (133 nautical miles) over the Pacific Ocean as it traveled in space at more than 17,000 mph. USS Decatur (DDG-73) and USS Russell (DDG-59) were also part of the task force. Read more

Posted on Wed, 20 Feb 2008 23:34:27 CST | by Luigi Lugmayr

Belt Buckle Spy Camera and DVR

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Chinese gadget manufacturer Ajoka offers a spy belt buckle with integrated digital video recorder.

In the early days spy cameras had a secondary large unit that housed the recording. In the very, very early days that was a VHS recorder. Now with the advancement of flash memory, the spy cameras can directly record video footage.

The Ajoka Buckle DVR measures 2.54x1.47x0.60" and is supporting microSD cards from 128MB to 2GB to store video. Read more

Posted on Thu, 10 Jan 2008 06:00:00 CST | by Luigi Lugmayr

New Spykee Robots have Apple iPhone and iPod Docks

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We reported yesterday that Meccano and Erector will introduce three new Spykee wifi robots at the CES 2008 dubbed Spykee Cell, Spykee Vox, and Spykee Miss.

Gizmodo got a set of photos showing the new Spykee robots and it is now revealed that they have iPod and iPhone docking stations. Read more

Posted on Sat, 5 Jan 2008 04:05:00 CST | by Luigi Lugmayr

New Meccano Spykee Cell, Spykee Vox, and Spykee Miss Robots Confirmed

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Yesterday we reported about a rumor that Meccano (Erector) will introduce three new robots in their Spykee line at the CES 2008.

Today we received an invite from Meccano showing the outlines of the three new robots the company will debut at CES: Spykee Cell, Spykee Vox, and Spykee Miss. Read more

Posted on Fri, 4 Jan 2008 02:03:55 CST | by Luigi Lugmayr

Rumor of new Erector Spykee Robots at CES 2008

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At last year's CES Erector aka Meccano introduced the cool wi-fi enabled robot kit Spykee (first known as Spyke).

I was watching the Spykee robot since then. The robot never shipped as far as I know. It was offered on Amazon, but has been marked as unavailable for a long time now. Read more

Posted on Thu, 3 Jan 2008 02:14:50 CST | by Luigi Lugmayr

2008 Mitsubishi Eclipse Spyder surprisingly good looking

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I just stumbled over the new Mitsubishi Eclipse Spyder Roadster and I am quite impressed by it's looks.

I am almost tempted to say that the 2008 Eclipse Spyder is sexier than the BMW Z4. Nothing can touch the already classic Z3 of course in the affordable roadster segment. Read more

Posted on Tue, 27 Nov 2007 06:00:00 CST | by Luigi Lugmayr

Spyker Exotic Cars at the LA Auto Show

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Before the LA Auto Show I wasn’t familiar with Spyker and its line of exotic sports cars, but boy am I familiar now. Spyker was nestled in between Bentley, Lamborghini and Aston Martin at the show and I found Spyker’s rides to be more appealing than many of the others on display.

Some of the Spyker cars had a weird rear end that I didn’t care for, they were very large and rounded. To my eyes, it didn't fit in too well with the angular, sculpted lines on the other parts of the car. Read more

Posted on Fri, 16 Nov 2007 12:29:45 CST | by Shane McGlaun