The Growth Of Camera Glasses
Others would have it on their watches that would make a recording while the spy is making as if to look at time. Spy cams have even been attached to little trained pets that would record for you. All these scenarios with spy cams may seen too fanciful or too impractical for most of us. While that maybe true, the honest truth is that some people actually use spy cameras especially those whose jobs would call for them to stake out or setup some form of surveillance. An even better thing is that you can own spy cameras yourself. Just check to avoid doing illegal things with it to prevent you from landing in trouble.
Camera glasses are products of spy movies. The only thing more disturbing than the fact that they're used in daily life is the likelihood that there is a sufficient demand for them worldwide. Rather than being reserved for some backwoods survivalist cult, a quick Google search will bring up any number of physical and web-based outlets where anyone in practically any country can buy 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 thousands of dollars for the hidden, top secret, high-grade, special forces military specification type that makes you feel you've had computers imbeded in your cornea. A pair of camera glasses like these may be the best you can get to being either a T-1000 Terminator or an MI6 agent.
Now more 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 in the world of modern day popular culture as video conferencing, remote satellite surveillance imaging, video telephones and also the now smartphones. Just twenty years ago camera glasses were thought to be nothing greater than frivolous toys.
The very first time I came upon the concept 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 talk with my editor via the webcam/microphone gadget built into the top of my laptop screen. I recollect the back pages of the same comic containing ads for zit-makers, switchblade combs, sea monkeys, x-ray specs, and of course, some sort of practical joke camera glasses.
Camera glasses may have been fiction once upon a time, but they're not the fantasy of books and comics nowadays. As a matter of fact, these camera glasses evolved a lot throughout the years you can now find them in any color and style. The majority of the camera glasses on the market right now 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 safe.
