The 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 fancy or too unlikely for the majority of us. While that may be true, the fact 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 make certain to avoid doing illegal things using it to prevent you from putting yourself 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 probability that there is a sufficient demand for them globally. Rather than being reserved for some backwoods survivalist cult, a quick Google search will bring up any several physical and web-based outlets where anyone in practically any country can pay for 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 covert, top secret, high-grade, special forces military specification version 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 in the world of modern day popular culture as video conferencing, remote satellite surveillance imaging, video telephones as well as the now smartphones. Just two decades ago camera glasses were regarded as nothing more than juvenile 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 talk to my editor via the webcam/microphone contraption built into the top of my computer screen. I recall the back pages of the same comic including promotions 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 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 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 safe. Remember, when it comes down to camera glasses or any glasses for the matter, fashion first function later!
