The Of Camera Glasses
Others would have it on their watches that would videotape while the spy is putting on an act to look at time. Spy cams have even been affixed to little trained pets that would record for you. All these scenarios with spy cams may seen too fancy or too unreal for many of us. While that might be true, the truth is that some people actually use spy cameras especially those whose jobs would require them to nose around or setup some form of surveillance. An even better thing is that you can own spy cameras for yourself. Just make sure to avoid doing illegal things with it to prevent you from landing in trouble.
Camera glasses are tools of spy movies. The only thing more disturbing than the fact that they're used in everyday life is the possibility that there is a sufficient demand for them throughout the world. As opposed to being reserved for some backwoods survivalist cult, a quick Google search will pull up any range 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 1000s of dollars for the undercover, top secret, high-grade, special forces military specification edition 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 much 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 intelligence 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 and even the now smartphones. Just twenty years ago camera glasses were thought to be nothing greater than adolescent toys.
The very 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 speak with my editor via the webcam/microphone gadget built into the top of my computer screen. I recall the back pages of the same comic featuring advertisings 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, but they're not the fantasy of books and comics anymore. In fact, these camera glasses evolved a great deal 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 and 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 unharmed.
