The PennyCam from StealthVue is a hidden camera that captures upwardly-angled pictures. It’s best used on the counter of a corner store, snapping a clear identifiable photo of the person’s face. The cam is in a Take-A-Penny, Leave-A-Penny tray, and is connected to a DVR with a standard BNC cable that is below the counter.

It’s powered by a 12V adapter, and will capture images in 500 x 582 resolution thanks to the 0.33″ Sony CCD image sensor. The StealthVue PennyCam will cost you $199. Once you have it, you can confront them with the evidence. “You took a penny, but never left a penny.” “No I didn’t” Then show them the proof. You’ll never again have to be taken advantage of by penny tray abusers.

These days it’s easy to be your own detective. No need to hire a Magnum PI or some other guy who had a show in the 80’s, just to tell you if your wife is having an affair or not. Paraben’s Cell Seizure Investigator (CSI) stick will tell you. It does have the potential to wreck lives, so it comes with a warning “buy it with discretion.” With this gadget, you can get all the dirt you need for a personal forensic analysis.

That includes sent and received SMS’s, contacts, and call list. The device is only compatible with a few mobile phones at the moment, from Samsung and Motorola. Using adaptors, the manufacturer hopes to expand that compatibility. The forensic analysis of the data can be carried out with PC-based forensic software provided.

Talk about your sneaky spy gadgets… The TeleSpy Intrusion Detector looks like a standard home telephone when in reality its a motion detector, microphone and secret dialer all in one.

This unassuming phone has a built in infrared motion sensor that’s able to cover 45 degrees at the direction it’s aiming in a room, waiting for any movement. When motion is sensed the TeleSpy will call up a single, pre-programmed number and then turn on the microphone for whoever answers to listen to what’s going on. The TeleSpy phone stays connected for 30 seconds and then hangs up and re-arms itself waiting for the next movement.

If you have a reason to follow someone around and eavesdrop in on their conversations — or heck, even if you don’t — what better way to say “privacy shrivacy” than with the Micro Agent Listener. This compact gadget has an 12-inch extendable microphone on one end so you can stand around one side of the corner while hearing all of the dirt that’s being said on the other side. Of course it comes with an earclip but you will still look like a dork if you wear it like that plus you …

With these Lazer Trip Wires you can set up an invisible perimeter to alert your of any unwanted invasions of your “space”. The devices don’t actually use real laser beams (hence the spelling ‘lazer’), but use infrared beams to create an invisible trip wire that sets off an alarm when anyone crosses it.

The kit comes with three devices, one main and two secondary units that each send and detect a beam. You can set up two that point at each other or all three or more to create a perimeter. Each …

This is claimed to be the world’s smallest DVR under $3k and we have to admit that we haven’t seen one smaller, especially for under that price. The descriptions on the site lean towards those a little on the sneaky side wanting to video and record with a hidden system and the Black-Box DVR looks like it would be perfect.

Measuring only a total of 2.28 square inches it records at 30 fps and a 640×480 resolution onto an SD card which it supports up to 4GB. It also has a power AV-in port which connects and …

The Danish company Empire North is currently working on a special kind of sniper rifle. When gamers hear the words ‘sniper rifle’ they immediately think of some first person shooter game or another. However, this is not the case with this particular rifle.

Empire North is working on a GPS-based sniper rifle dubbed ID Sniper that is built to embed a tiny GPS tracking device on a target up to 1.1km away. This rifle will also be able to take pictures of the ‘target’ with the scope. Straight from the movies, the target will not …

The folks at Camero have developed a device that can “see” through walls for military and law enforcement agencies during urban operations.

The Xaver 800 uses a novel and patented approach by employing ultra-wideband (UWB) RF signals to create 3D images of people and other objects that are otherwise hidden behind solid barriers such as a wall. The device can render the objects in 3D, and is able to see through wall-type barriers made of cement, plaster, brick, and wood.

The 3D images are returned in real-time and allow the objects being viewed to …