The Growth Of Camera Glasses

All these circumstances with spy cams may seen too elaborate or too improbable for the majority of us. While that could be true, the fact is that some people actually use spy cameras especially those whose jobs would order them to stake out or setup some kind 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 putting yourself in trouble.

Camera glasses are devices 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. As opposed to being reserved for some backwoods survivalist cult, a quick Google search will pull up any many physical and web-based outlets where anyone in practically any country can acquire 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 covert, top secret, high-grade, special forces military specification type that makes you feel you've had computers implanted in your cornea. A pair of camera glasses like these may be the closest 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 secret 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 also the now smartphones. Only 20 years ago camera glasses were regarded as nothing more than frivolous toys.

The very first time I encountered 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 to my editor via the webcam/microphone thingamabob built into the top of my computer screen. I recollect the back pages of the same comic displaying advertisements 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 in the past, but they're not the fantasy of books and comics anymore. In fact, these camera glasses evolved a great deal over the years you can now find them in any color and style. Many of the camera glasses on the market at this time 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 out of danger. Remember, when it comes down to camera glasses or any glasses for the matter, fashion first function later!