The Evolution 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 putting on an act to look at time. Spy cams have even been attached to tiny trained pets that would record for you. All these situations with spy cams may seen too elegant or too improbable for many of us. While that could be true, the reality is that some people actually use spy cameras especially those whose jobs would order them to check out or setup some type of surveillance. An even better thing is that you can own spy cameras for yourself. Just be sure to avoid doing illegal things using it to prevent you from landing in trouble.
Camera glasses are products 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 internationally. As opposed to 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 hidden, top secret, high-grade, special forces military specification type that makes you feel you've had computers embeded 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 secret agent equipment. In many ways, camera glasses hold a similar position worldwide of modern day popular culture as video conferencing, remote satellite surveillance imaging, video telephones as well as the now smartphones. Just 20 years ago camera glasses were thought of as nothing more than adolescent toys.
The very first time I discovered 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 with my editor via the webcam/microphone product built into the top of my laptop screen. I remember the back pages of the same comic including ads 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, but they're not the fantasy of books and comics today. In fact, these camera glasses evolved a lot throughout the years you can now find them in any color and style. Many 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 out of danger.
