The Evolution Of Camera Glasses

All these scenarios with spy cams may seen too fanciful or too impractical for a lot of us. While that might be true, the honest truth is that some people actually use spy cameras especially those whose jobs would involve them to check out or setup some kind of surveillance. An even better thing is that you can own spy cameras yourself. Just make certain to avoid doing illegal things using it to prevent you from getting in trouble.

Camera glasses are gadgets of spy movies. The only thing more disturbing than the fact that they're used in everyday life is the likelihood that there is a sufficient demand for them around the world. Rather than being reserved for some backwoods survivalist cult, a quick Google search will bring up any range of physical and web-based outlets where anyone in practically any country can obtain a set of camera glasses. These camera glasses can set you back anywhere from around US$ 50 for the school boy spy-on-the-girls-in-gym-class variety to hundreds of dollars for the undercover, top secret, high-grade, special forces military specification version that makes you feel you've had computers imbeded in your cornea. A pair of camera glasses like these may be the nearest thing you can get to being either a T-1000 Terminator or an MI6 agent.

Now greater than fiction camera glasses do occupy an interesting place in the evolution of gadgets and widgets, from fantasy fiction and Maxwell Smart's "shoe-phone" to real-life, not-to-leave-home-without essential undercover agent equipment. In many ways, camera glasses hold a similar position all over the world of modern day popular culture as video conferencing, remote satellite surveillance imaging, video telephones as well as the now smartphones. No greater than 20 years ago camera glasses were thought to be nothing more than frivolous toys.

The first time I came across the notion of a videophone conference was in a Disney comic circa the 1980s. Daisy and Donald were making plans via Uncle Gyro's new "fandangled crackpot invention" - a TV screen with a small camera built into the top casing connected to a telephone. Today, I can chat with my editor via the webcam/microphone thingamabob built into the top of my laptop computer screen. I remember the back pages of the same comic presenting advertisements for zit-makers, switchblade combs, sea monkeys, x-ray specs, and of course, some type of practical joke camera glasses.

Camera glasses may have been fiction once, but they're not the fantasy of books and comics any longer. In fact, these camera glasses evolved a lot throughout the years you can now find them in any color and style. A lot of the camera glasses on the market currently would look more at home on an Olympic speed skater or a gold medal-winning sailboard rider. Sure, they were cool back in the late eighties or even the early nineties, but a pair of these camera glasses are certainly not going to help even the most invisible of men keep themselves under cover and out of danger. Remember, when it comes down to camera glasses or any glasses for the matter, fashion first function later!