The History Of Camera Glasses
Some would have a camera at the end of a pen. Others would have it on their watches that would record while the spy is making as if to look at time. Spy cams have even been attached to tiny trained animals that would record for you. All these instances with spy cams may seen too fanciful or too impractical for many of us. While that might be true, the honest truth is that some people actually use spy cameras especially those whose jobs would call for them to investigate or setup some type of surveillance. An even better thing is that you can own spy cameras yourself. Just be 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 day-to-day life is the possibility that there is a sufficient demand for them globally. Instead of 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 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 hundreds of dollars for the hidden, top secret, high-grade, special forces military specification version that makes you feel you've had computers embeded 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 just 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 in the world of modern day popular culture as video conferencing, remote satellite surveillance imaging, video telephones as well as the now smartphones. No greater than twenty years ago camera glasses were considered as nothing greater than childish toys.
The first time I came upon 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 chat with my editor via the webcam/microphone gadget built into the top of my laptop computer screen. I recall the back pages of the same comic including offers for zit-makers, switchblade combs, sea monkeys, x-ray specs, and of course, some kind of practical joke camera glasses.
Camera glasses may have been fiction once, but they're not the fantasy of books and comics now. As a matter of fact, these camera glasses evolved so much throughout the years you can now find them in any color and style. Most of the camera glasses on the market presently 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 unharmed.
