According to the American Defense department some mysterious coins were found in contractors that were traveling trough Canada (three separate events were registered early in 2006). Why the coins were mysterious you might ask? Because apparently they contained small radio frequency transmitters inside them, with the purpose of spying.

Yahoo news has an interesting article about the deal: “Experts said such tiny transmitters would almost certainly have limited range to communicate with sensors no more than a few feet away, such as ones hidden inside a doorway. The metal in the coins also could interfere with any signals emitted”.

The article also commented that “hiding tracking technology inside coins is fraught with risks because the spy’s target might inadvertently give away the coin or spend it buying coffee or a newspaper.” (no shit man!). Read the rest of this entry »

It’s another robot with a cutesy name, SPYKE the WiFi Spy Robot. It’s due to be sold under the Meccano brand name which is pretty appropriate as you’ll have to make him your self.

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Ok, so sure, you want to decorate your car like you belong to the nearby police force.

You want to be sure that no one pulls in front of you,, ever.  Then again, you don’t mind looking like a high end weirdo, so it’s ok.  Just head on over to Galls for that police issue everything!  There are a few things they have that really hit the gadget geek in all of us right where it hurts,, our wallets.

Check out the Galls Graphic Superstore (seriously) where you can locate the finest is urban camouflage so that your vehicle is treated as “security” or any of their other classy and likely arrest inducing stickers will loudly attest.

If a different measure of automotive hoonage is more your style you can always go to the part of the site where you can select the type of siren you’d prefer

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Sure, you mountain bike, snowboard, rock climb, fish, play chess, and drive formula 1, (this means you Coulthard!)

I’m sure you always wanted to bring back those living images of greatness when you jumped, landed, caught, or checkmated all your opponents in living color.

Now it’s possible for a reasonable sum of money! (that’s different than paying for the lipstick cameras that adorn F1 cars that cost a tad more than $100). Thanks to the ATC-2000 Action Camera from Oregon Scientific. A special thanks to the big guy over at Fat Cyclist, (his words not mine) for letting me in on the secret.

The Action camera is just what the typical adrenaline (and bbq salmon teriyaki) fiend is looking for.  Durability. Did I mention durability?  Yeah, cause I break stuff and I know you do too! As far as frame rate, you only get 15fps, which is more than fast enough to capture sports that require you to see what you’re doing.  Just don’t go play that Tron-lightcycles game, man that is hard to follow on video!
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Yes, they’re at it again, the wise and all knowing JASON.

Who or what is a JASON you may ask?

Well, they’re a relatively secret cabal of U.S. scientists that operate beyond political arenas (that’s they’re stipulation). The nice thing is, they just do what they do. They’re umm, good thinkers.

That’s really an understatement, they’re mostly the most brilliant scientists we have and well they do what they can (boy am I gonna get flamed on that one).

Anyhow, they’ve just put out a recommendation regarding engineering microorganisms for energy production.

So there I was wondering do I want a red pill or a green pill, and all of a sudden my question was answered! Over at Secrecy News, where this was posted, where there’s all sorts of scary crap. The JASON’s recommendation outlines production of microorganisms.

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It seems like there is always a new cool gadget that surpasses the others in quality, I’m 84% sure that is the case with this Spy Camera. It is better than the Hidden Light Bulb Camera + the R/C Night Vision Spy Car put together, seriously, just imagine the fun you can have with it after checking all the features.

To start with, this is a spy cam so it has to be small in order to be placed in strange places for important observations, you wouldn’t want a gigantic camera ruining your projects, now would you? It only measures 3 x 3 x 4cm which can be considered too tiny for a camera.
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It may not be the wisest of moves buying other people spy equipment but hey if you’re married to 007 and are stuck for a gift then check these out:

GPS Tracker

We wrote about this exceptionally cool GPS tracker earlier in the year and it became our first ever Digg front page (which meant lots of traffic and new readers (thank you digg)).

Once the tracker has done it’s travels and it’s back in your possession you simply connect it to you PC and download the data. This data can then be plotted on Google Earth, Mapquest, maps.google.com and Virtual Earth to show exactly where it’s been, how long it took and how it got there.

I just think this is so cool (may of said cool a record number of times in this post) it obviously has the spy functionality of tracking somebody else but to me it is even more useful for tracking your own holidays and backpacking adventures. So not only can you bore visitors with your holiday snaps you can also show them exactly where you went.

Available from from TG for $249.99.
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I’m not sure if this product is for the over paranoid, the very sensible or the signs of the times realists, either was the RFID Blocking Wallet has arrived.

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