I’m sure many of you are up to date with the latest cool spy gadgets people talk about lately allover the Internet. They have become fashionable and still catch your attention when you stumble upon an article describing some wrist watch with voice recording capability or a spy cam fitting a gum wrapper that can be easily carried in one of your shirt’s pockets.
Usually, these cool spy gadgets are available at Chinese stores, at low to high prices, depending on the number of features they provide, sound quality and camera resolution, if it’s a video recording device. You can’t find them easily in many countries, as all are imported from Asia, but the source stores offer big discounts for wholesale orders.

These devices available for civilians are not professional and don’t provide high-performance in recording audio and video, but in case you need a useful tool for spying people, one of the best choices existent in stores today is a wireless spy camera. It is small and can be embedded in many objects of different form factors, to be perfectly hidden and placed anywhere you need.

The difference between a standard spy camera and a wireless spy camera is that the first type records on its built-in memory, while the wireless version can transmit live all that it’s filming, to a remote display, which is also portable, so for example: if you spy with the first cam, you first have to be there carrying it in a pocket, then, at a later time, transfer the recordings on a computer or media player using the USB cable, but if you have the wireless camera hidden behind the vase in the person’s room, you can be 500 feet away, in your home, and watch all the action as it happens on an MP4 player with receiver. Of course, wireless spy cameras are more expensive than the ones with built-in memory, and we are talking here about a significant price difference of up to a few hundreds of dollars.




Now let’s meet Chinavasion’s wireless spy camera models! This online store provides lots of cool gadgets and even has a special category dedicated to spy stuff, where you can find several devices with built-in wireless cameras, so we’ll take a look at their top models.
First one I want to show you is the Watch Spy Camera + Wireless Receiver - Ultimate Spy Kit available at 255.46 EUR. It consists of a standard-looking wrist watch with built-in spy camera and a receiver. The smart design of this watch allows you to record video while resting your arm on a table, and sports a brushed aluminum finish to match even elegant clothes. Another cool thing is that you can use a single receiver unit to monitor up to 4 wireless cameras simultaneously, on a 2.5-inch LCD display with 882 x 228 resolution. When taking a break, the portable receiver lets you play cool music and watch videos.




Specifications of the MP4 receiver include PAL color system support, 4 channels, 2414MHz/2432MHz/2450MHz/2468MHz receiving frequencies, FM demodulation mode, 50 Ohm SMA antenna, Channel Scan/Skip, AV in/out, 90dB signal-to-noise ratio, 64MB built-in memory, support for up to 4GB storage via an SD card, MPEG 1/MPEG 4/AVI/ASF/ADPCM video playback formats at 30 frames per second speed, MPEG4/AVI video recording format at 640 x 480/320 x 240 recording resolutions, 3 capture compression settings, MPEG3 audio recording format, JPEG pictures support, USB 2.0 connectivity, Windows Vista support, and a 2500mAh Li-Ion rechargeable battery.

The camera in the watch uses a ¼ inch CMOS color sensor, 2 lux minimum illumination, auto backlight compensation, auto white balance, a 40-minutes operating time for the 130mAh battery, up to 200 feet transmission range, and measures 45mm in diameter x 16 mm thickness.
The wireless spy camera kit comes with USB cords, solar power charger, mains power adaptor and the AV stereo cord.




If you don’t like wearing wrist watches and friends know you use the cell phone for this function, you might like the Mobile Phone Wireless Spy Camera + Receiver coming at a lower price, of 138.02 EUR.
It is a wireless spy camera hiding in a cell phone-like casing. There is no phone functionality, but you can hold it in your hand to spy people without anyone to guess what’s inside that handset.
It works like the wrist watch camera, with a wireless receiver and the MP4 player, and starts sending images with sound as soon as you press the button enabling the transmit mode and set the receiver on the same frequency within 10 meters distance range.
It too uses the PAL system, plus the 1/3 Inch OmniVision CMOS camera, 3 lux light requirements, electronic shutter, automatic white balance, 48dB, ISM 2,400~2483MHz transmission frequency, multiple cameras support, up to 1GB external memory, a 1.5-inch TFT OLED display of 260K colors and 320 x 240 resolution, 320 x 240 video resolution, MP3 player, WMA, JPEG/EXIF2.1pictures, earphone jack, 10mW output speaker, multiple language support, USB 2.0, and power from a rechargeable Li-Ion battery. In addition to video surveillance, you can use the MP4 player for Alarm Clock and Time Adjust functions.




Another undercover solution for your wireless spy camera need is this Wireless Spy Camera Pen - Included Solar Charger, a standard pen with built-in mini camera that charges its Li-Ion battery using solar energy. The transmission range is of up to 20 meters, and you can carry the pen in a pocket near your chest, to capture people’s faces standing at your height level.




It costs 229.30 EUR and works with a 2.4GHz receiver, PAL system, 4 channels for multiple cameras, 64MB memory in the MP4 player, up to 2GB external memory support, a 2.5-inch TFT LCD display, multiple video formats, 882 x 240 video resolution at 30 frames per second, MP3 music, picture support, a 3.5mm earphone jack, 60dB, 1W output speaker, USB 2.0, auto white balance, and backlight compensation.




When you plan to spy people you talk to directly, or groups you hang around with outside, you could wear this pair of Spy Sunglasses with Secret Bilateral Cameras. There are 2 built-in CMOS cameras on the sides for peripheral vision, so the spied person won’t stop saying incriminating secrets because you don’t seem very interested without looking into his/her eyes. Using the control button on the frame of the glasses, you can switch between the 2 cameras. Also, that person doesn’t even know you because you can ask someone else to be there for you, while you’ll be watching all from 15 meters way, on the MP4 player with wireless receiver.




The glasses come at a price of 274.64 EUR, including 128MB internal memory, up to 2GB storage support, a 2.4-inch LCD on the MP4 handset, 320 x 240 video resolution at 25 frames per second, 4 channels, multiple language menu, USB 2.0, and compatibility with the following file formats: AVI, MPEG1, MPEG2, MPEG4, VOB, DAT, ASF, MP3, WMA, OGG, AC3 and JPEG.
The handset powers from a 3.6 V 1300mAh Battery for up to 50 minutes recording.

Other features of this wireless spy camera kit include Calendar, Mini CD with Driver and Conversion Software, storage wallet, cables and solar charger.




BrickHouse Security provides many security and surveillance equipments including the gadget type we are reviewing now. One of their spy devices is the picture frame covert camera, which is a normal picture frame but with built-in wireless CCD-sensor spy camera, and can be placed on any desk to spy people around the room. It features long transmission range of up to 3500 feet via the 2.4GHz High Powered Transmitter, low lux for low light environments, high resolution, which is a rare characteristic of these cameras available on the market, and connectivity with VCR and TV.

The camera has the following specifications: 12 VDC Power Adapters, 380 LOR, 3.7mm Lens, and 0.5 LUX. It sells at a high price of $627.75.
You can find it also with Black and White video recording capability plus wired.




The same store has also the Hidden Book Camera with a 1/3-inch high-resolution color CCD sensor camera with 380 x 420 resolution, 0.05 lux, NTSC color system support, 2.6mm lens, 92 degree field of view, 4 frequencies, and a wireless transmitting range of up to 700 feet.
The book measures 9 1/2 x 6 3/8 x 2 ¼ inches and costs $299.95.
You can embed a wireless spy camera in almost anything, such an Exit sign which has a high price of $430.50 even if it doesn’t record sound, your Colgate tooth paste tube, a deodorizer and freshener, shower gel, anti-perspirant ball, hair gloss, wall-mounted mirrors, and even wall clocks like the Racing Rim camera model.




Other ornamental ideas in addition to the desk picture frame, are the Glass Ornamental Vase with Hidden CCD wireless spy camera from MicroSpy, artificial flower vases, oil burners and many, many others. Possibilities are endless.




As I said, many of these wireless spy cameras are fashionable in the way that most of us would like to use one to spy friends for fun, or record compromising discussions to blackmail people. We all have a rich imagination, but there is one smart device that you might not have heard of it yet. It was designed to detect and reveal all these spy cameras in places you suspect there is one, and it would be a useful tool in suspect hotel rooms, dressing rooms, and even tanning booths. There are recent reports of women complaining about finding videos with them tanning in bikinis on the Internet, or while changing clothes in stores’ dressing rooms. If they’ve had a SpyFinder such as the model available at SpyVille, they’d have been able to detect those hidden cameras and avoid unpleasant things.




According to the provider, this tool was built with a technology developed by a military engineering and contractor firm a few years ago, and proved to be very efficient even these days. It can detect hidden spy and pinhole cameras, wired or wireless, from up to 30 feet away, working based on the principle of optical augmentation – a phenomenon where light reflected from a focused optical system is reflected along the same path as the incident light. This means that if there’s a hidden wireless spy camera in the room and you illuminate it with the SpyFinder, the strong reflection from it reveals its position.



The gadget has a ring of ultra-bright LEDs placed around a viewing port, and when you scan the room while looking through the viewing port, any hidden camera will reflect the light from these LEDs and appear in the field of view. Larger cameras appear as bigger spots, while the pinholes look like small points of light on the detector.
SpyFinder costs $79.99 and in the following video you can see how it works.