Spy Cams

Tiny cameras that record on the sly can be hidden in all sorts of objects. Here we see the Spy Pen Camera ($30), which lets you download 640-by-480 video and audio recorded on the built-in 4GB memory straight onto your computer; the Button Camera ($129), featuring three styles of button covers with matching real buttons for the rest of your jacket or shirt; the Key Ring Spy Camera ($102) with built-in microphone; and the dressy Tie Camera ($252), which can share a power supply with the optional Covert Video Recorder ($389).

Cellular Jammers

Need to scramble a cellular signal and thereby render nearby cellphones' calling capabilities useless, so your evil-empire nemesis can't deliver his latest intelligence update to the homeland at the appointed hour? The High Power Portable Jammer ($205) isn't covert, but it can scramble signals at distances of up to 60 feet away. The 3G Mini Cell Jammer ($199) promises to scramble cell signals for 3G, UMTS, CDMA, and GSM networks within a range of up to 32 feet.

Keyloggers

When you can't crack the encryption code on some secret plans locked away in a computer file, your only other option is to identify the user's password and use that to access to the information in unencrypted form. That's when spies (and paranoid spouses) turn to a keylogger, which record every keystroke that a user enters on a specific computer.


GPS Trackers

The PTXTrak Real-Time GPS Tracking Device ($470) transmits the location of a car or person every 10 seconds (if driving) or every 20 feet (if walking), while you watch on a Web-based map. The Mini GPS Logger ($288) records and stores--on the device itself--the route, stop time, speed, direction, and altitude of a moving object. Subsequently you can retrieve the data and download it to a computer via USB.

Document Scanners

PlanOn's handy document scanners do the job quickly and covertly--assuming that no one considers moving an unopened ballpoint pen rapidly across every line of text on a page to be odd. The DocuPen Xtreme X05 ($300) comes with 64MB of internal memory, takes MicroSD cards for expansion, and can perform Bluetooth transfers as well. The DocuPen RC810 ($170) has 8MB of memory and takes about 4 to 8 seconds to scan a full page of text.

Phones No Longer Safe

If your mission is to spy on someone who uses a BlackBerry or an Android phone, a service called Mobile Spy ($99 for one year) promises to enable you to monitor their location, and check the user's text messages and Web history. Mobile Spy claims that its iPhone Spy software ($50 for three months) works in a similar manner with iPhones--but only if they've been jailbroken.

Spy Coins

Finally, all self-respecting spies need a safe way to transfer to the home office all the data they've acquired during a hard day of skulking around. These hollow spy coins from Dereu & Sons have been uses since the Cold War by spies to transport secret messages or suicide poisons. Now you can use them to carry a MicroSD card. Available coins include U.S. nickels ($30 each) and half-dollars (a significantly better deal at $25 each), British pounds ($33 each), and EU euros ($30 each).


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