Smartvue V2 -- automatically configuring IP video surveillance

Smartvue V2 -- automatically configuring IP video surveillance - Engadget

Smartvue is releasing their new Smartvue S2 IP video surveillance system that offers MIMO wireless connectivity and automatic configuration of up to 10 cameras. The system can record at "DVD resolution" and automatically records to a 80GB or 250GB Digital Video Manager that can connect over a tethered-LAN or wirelessly. Smartvue allows for remote monitoring and administration via a PC or cellphone, and offers security via a 128 bit encrypted USB key.

Up to 10 cameras dumping to a 250 GB hard drive automagically. You know what that means folks. That's right. Another Handy Stalker Tool!

Nokia Spy Safetyphone

Nokia Spy Safetyphone

Fancy pulling off some espionage activities? Though these Nokia phones look like their normal counterparts, you can actually leave them alone on the table and head off. When no phone movement is detected, you will receive an SMS – this is the cue when you can give the spyphone a call and it will answer automatically, transmitting all that’s being said within a radius of 10 metres. The phone will not ring nor blink, so there’s no way someone will know you’re listening in! The Nokia Spy Safetyphone is not cheap at €969.00 upwards

Looks like another Handy Stalker Tool. Now you can eavesdrop on conversations from anywhere in the world with just a phone call. All for the bargain price of $1700.00!! Holy crap! Well, nobody said being a stalker was cheap.

Shower Clock Radio With... Spy Camera?

Shower Clock Radio With... Spy Camera? - Gizmodo

OK. This is kind of creepy. It’s a $189 water resistant clock radio with CD player and there’s a color spy camera built into it for… spying on people taking showers?

Ummm...wow. I guess they have given up all pretense at products aimed at "security" and gone straight for the voyeur stuff. A Handy Stalker Tool? Yes indeed.

GPS TrackStick

TrackStick

The TrackStick is a GPS tracking device that is roughly the size of an iPod Shuffle. One can program it to record the location, speed, and direction at specific intervals and view the 3D mapping and satellite imaging when needed. It’s a fantastic way to keep track of your kids or even keep an eye on your employees who seem to be claiming more mileage than they should. Powered by 2 AAA batteries, the TrackStick works for 5 to 7 days before a change of batteries are required

Boy, it is looking like a bumper year for Handy Stalker Tools. More stalking fun than you can shake a (track) stick at.

Digital Telescope

THE RAW FEED: gadgets, games and geeks

A Japanese company called Kenko is offering a USB device called the Digi-Eyepiece that you attach to your TELESCOPE. Then you can watch the sky, record video and take digital pictures with your PC. It's the perfect USB accessory for amateur astronomers and peeping toms.

Now you can make any telescope into a digital voyeur recorder. That's right folks, more Handy Stalker Tools.

Teeny Tiny Hitachi RFID Chip

Teeny Tiny Hitachi RFID Chip: Big Whoop - Gizmodo

Smaller than a grain of salt, Hitachi’s newest RFID chip measures .005 x .005 inches and is 7.5 micrometers thin. Using Silicon-on-Insulator (SOI) technology, it uses an external antenna to receive radio waves (2.45 GHz), and transforms it to energy to wirelessly transmit a 128-bit unique ID number for a high level of authenticity.

Woot! Even smaller RFID chips, oh boy! I'm sure RFID won't be ussed as a Handy Stalker Tool. Nope. RFID is good. RFID make Walmart even cheaper. Good RFID.

Shutterbugs in the Dark

News from PC Magazine: Shutterbugs in the Dark

At CES, Korean Company Planet82 demonstrated its eye-popping SMPD (Single Module Photo Detector) image sensor. The sensor's calling card is that it lets cameras take full-color photos or video in the dark—without a flash.

The SMPD is more sensitive to light than other image sensors, making it possible to take clear images even when the light level is less than 0.1 lux. One lux is equivalent to the brightness of a single candle 1 meter away in a dark room.

More Handy Stalker Tools! Stalking in color coming to a neighborhood near you.

Lights, Cameras—Everywhere

Clubbing Baby Seals...: Lights, Cameras—Everywhere

These technologies can already "greatly reduce the energy cost of capturing a digital image," says Mark Bocko, professor of electrical and computer engineering at the university. Bocko's team has a prototype chip that can directly digitize each pixel location in a CMOS sensor, using only three transistors per pixel to keep the sensor small. That translates into just 0.88 nanowatts per pixel at 30 frames per second of video—one-fiftieth of what today's sensors require.

Oh goody. That's what we need, more cameras. Sure, I'm a fairly rabid privacy nut, but do we really need cameras everywhere?

I like how they try and put a positve spin on it.

What if cameras were ubiquitous, wirelessly sending images to a security company when a home alarm goes off, letting mapping software zoom into real-time images at any location, and making cell-phone video calls workable?

Oh, well as long as it makes video cell calls workable...sigh.

Handy Stalker Tools in the making.