The Progress Of Camera Glasses
Spy cams have even been attached to small trained animals that would record for you. All these circumstances with spy cams may seen too lavish or too improbable for the majority of us. While that might be true, the reality is that some people actually use spy cameras especially those whose jobs would involve them to nose around or setup some sort 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 tools 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 pull up any number 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 1000s of dollars for the undercover, top secret, high-grade, special forces military specification model 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 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 secret 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. No greater than 20 years ago camera glasses were thought of as nothing more than young toys.
The very first time I discovered the proposition 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 to my editor via the webcam/microphone gadget built into the top of my laptop screen. I recollect the back pages of the same comic including offers 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 any more. In fact, these camera glasses evolved so much over the years you can now find them in any color and style. Most of the camera glasses on the market at present 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 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. Remember, when it comes down to camera glasses or any glasses for the matter, fashion first function later!
