GSM Tracker. - The Red Ferret Journal
The Sazo GSM Tracker. Track, monitor, communicate. Uses standard cell triangulation to keep track of…well whatever you want really.
ThinkGeek :: R/C Spy Video Car with Night Vision
That's right - this quiet R/C car has a video camera mounted on the front. It broadcasts to the black and white LCD HUD which plugs into the remote. You'll see everything your Spy Car sees (in bright light or in total darkness). And since it rides really low to the ground, you'll be able to go under tables, chair, pets, and anything else that gets in your way.
Thanko BINOCA01 Recording Binoculars - Gizmodo
These Thanko binoculars zooms up to 7x48, captures video at15FPS VGA resolution, and still pictures at 2 megapixels with up to 2048x1536 resolution. Perfect for capturing owls, owls nests, owl mating, owl babies, and other owl-related scenes.
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.
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
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?
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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?
The $600 World Tracker SMS is a GPS transmitter that sends SMSes to your cellphone along with the device'’s coordinates for a monthly fee. When integrated with Google Earth, it can provide a photo location within 3 meters of the tracking device. It can also be used as an anti-theft device for vehicles, alerting you the moment your vehicle moves more than 100 meters from its parked position.
...is designed as an all-hours web camera. The red-infrared technology allows you to video chat in a low-light environment. If you want to do chat with a family member or a friend late in the evening, and don't want to disturb anyone, then the Trek 310 is the ideal web camera for those who like to stay up late. Trek 310 was designed with a special base, and it can stand elegantly or hang on the LCD monitor gracefully.
Buttonholed. - The Red Ferret Journal
If you wear this button-looking device on your suit, it records the situation of a spot and transmit the data to remote areas using the wireless transmit technology (Bluetooth) in real time. The device detects movements of an object and records them automatically. You can have access and communicate several Self Guard devices from anywhere you can use the internet.
The smallest GPS chip evar? - The Red Ferret Journal
New Zealand company Rakon has just announced the worldÂ’s smallest GPS receiver chip (size = babyÂ’s fingernail). Look out for GPS functionality in watches Real Soon Now!
DriveSync tracks your kids' joyrides - Engadget
Nothing gladdens our hearts more than seeing yet another paranoid parent kid tracking device aimed at locking down the hearts, minds and loins of today's youth. This one provides off-line GPS tracking (read: cheaper than real-time) of your vehicle so you can see when, where, how fast and how aggressively your teen is abusing the family getaway-mobile. The data is tracked passively and stored in a USB key that plugs into the receiver unit and detaches to be read on your home computer. The data is uploaded to a DriveSync server where it gets interpreted, generating reports including trip logs and usage alerts
The Carson NM-1 NiteMax night vision viewer - Engadget
...the Carson NM-1 NiteMax will give you a bright and clear picture in even the darkest conditions, and display it on the built-in 2.5-inch grayscale LCD screen. But if the screen's not enough for you, the RCA video output jack will let you connect the NiteMax to your camcorder or VCR so you can make a permanent record of whatever it is that's so important it can't wait until daytime. Buy now and you can get it for the low, low price of $289.99.
Hop-on's ChitterChatter GPS/cell watch - Engadget
Whether at work, home or traveling, simply use the Internet or any phone with SMS capabilities to quickly identify the location of the device within 300+ feet, in approximately 1 minute. The ChitterChatter Phone allows kids to stay in touch with close family and friends, or send their location by pressing the one-touch star button -- while letting parents manage costs.
Remote command control via mobile phones and/or through online software.
• Receive phone calls to have two way communications.
• Monitors can track the person without interfering him, LIVE! Real-Time tracking!
• Locate the locator holder with just a press of a button on PC software or through mobile phone via SMS (short messaging system).
• Report device holder’s position at a preset time interval.
productdose.com - Instant Replay Binoculars
If you spend much time looking through binoculars, you’ve at some point probably wished you could replay an image you just saw. Bushnell had you in mind when coming up with these 8 x 32-magnification Instant Replay Digital Binoculars, which replay .35 megapixel video clips (15fps) or 2.1 megapixel still images on a 1.5” LCD screen. While the binoculars were designed for replay on the go, the set also comes with imaging software and a USB for transfer to your computer.
THE RAW FEED: Flying Digital Camera On Sale At Wal-Mart
What's the coolest thing you can buy at Wal-Mart? It very well may be this RC airplane with built-in DIGITAL CAMERA. You take pictures from the plane by pressing a button on the remote. It's perfect for gadget geeks who already have everything else, nosy kids and peeping toms.
MII Flashcam—Stalker's Best Friend - Gizmodo
Okay, this isn't as good for stalkers and peeping toms as much as it’s great for tactical/law enforcement types. The MII Flashcam appears to be a mild-mannered flashlight. Looks can be deceiving because this flashlight is fully loaded. This flashlight features a conveniently-mounted camera that can record video up to 640x480 and take snapshots at 3 megapixels. It also features LED infrared illumination, standard 85,000 candle power flashlight and a 1.5” TFT-LCD screen for playback and viewing of pictures.
CarChipE/X with Alarm alerts teens of driving indiscretions - Engadget - www.engadget.com
The device has been around for a while, mounting under your dash and tracking all sorts of things like car speed and RPM, sudden braking and acceleration, distance traveled, and fuel usage, which it stores in a 300 hour log. You can then take the CarChip and pull the data to your PC via USB and check on what your car has been up to. Now they’re adding an alarm functionality to alert the driver when they go above preset maximums for speed, braking, and acceleration, which we’re sure will annoy that drag racing teen of yours.
Zapped! Homemade RFID Reader-Detector
You may have heard the term RFID and possibly even brought one home unknowingly. But what exactly is a Radio Frequency Identification tag? Why are Wal-Mart, the Department of Defense and the Food & Drug Administration sinking big bucks into these little chips and paving the way for mass implementation?
After a brief overview of the technology and its related issues, each participant will receive a Zapped! RFID workbook. Participate in one of several hands-on exercises. You can to build your own RFID keychain detector that will ring, vibrate or light up when a RFID reader is within range and scanning the airwaves for data. Or program a RFID tag to "talk back" to a RFID reader that you may uncover with your Zapped! keychain.
Yahoo! News - To Protect and Intrude
SAN DIEGO -- John Phillips peered down at the computer screen. Something didn't look quite right. It was 9:11 a.m. on the West Coast, or just past noon in the East, and all the bus drivers were supposed to be on break. The map of the District of Columbia showed hundreds of red blips representing vehicles that had been parked for more than an hour. But then there was one black dot, a lone bus, moving rapidly in the northwestern quadrant of the city.
Yahoo! News - Canadian Inventor Lets Everyone Be an Armchair Spy
Vincent Tao, an engineer at Toronto's York University said he has invented a mapping and surveillance tool called SAME (see anywhere, map anywhere), that produces images so sharp that geographic co-ordinates typed into a Web site can reveal the make of a car parked on the street. Tao said SAME works by taking satellite images of the Earth and combining them with real-time remote sensors that monitor traffic and weather. The information is reformatted on a searchable Web site that can capture ground-level images of the Earth with little or no time delay. The resolution is 2 feet -- fine enough to determine the make of a car, though not the details of a human face, according to Tao.
hey fell for each other in grade school, in the sweetest of ways. In fifth-grade music class, she played saxophone; he played the snare drum. In high school biology, she held the frog while he wielded the scalpel. It was the sort of love story immortalized endlessly in romance novels and Top 40 long-distance dedications. “I thought when I married him it really would be ’till death do us part,’ ” she says now, still surprised that the marriage ended after 19 years. Ultimately, the romance had sputtered to a close, as so many love stories do. Unlike most love stories, though, this ending involved satellites.
You want to spy on someones internet presence? Now you can with IMWatching. IMWatching lets you record and analyze anybody's Instant Messenger presence.
Most Instant Messenger users broadcast when they sign on, sign off, go idle, and flag themselves as away. This presence information is typically innocuous, useful for knowing if your buddies are available to chat. But when monitored continuously, over long time periods, those few signals tell a lot. This website lets you record and analyze anybody's IM activity. As of now it only supports AOL Instant Messenger, but it seems like they plan to support other platforms in the future.
