If you’re currently on a lookout for an interior speed dome camera that is meant for indoor use, the Samsung SPD-1000 ought to fit the bill very nicely. It comes with a 10x optical A/F zoom lens and provides accurate focusing whenever zoomed in. In fact, even vivid images can be captured at 100x zoom, and with 128 preset settings for automatic monitoring, you will always get the clearest picture possible. Monitoring can be set to large areas and different sectors (a maximum of 6). No idea if this is suited for art galleries and museums (they probably have a much more sophisticated system in place), but it would do mighty fine in a huge mansion.

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At first glance, this can of Campbells soup might look pretty ordinary, but it is actually a safe that lets you store your petty jewelry without making it look like a prime suspect during a burglary. This will probably be the last place the thief will want to check, unless he is famished and has a love for canned soup. You ought to be able to store a fair amount of dough inside in rolls, so the £12.49 investment is well worth the price in terms of safety. You can also choose from the WD-40 or Sprite can safes.

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Kids can be pretty resourceful creatures and there are not many ways of stopping them from doing who knows what on the PC. That is until KidSafe came along, a USB key that is exactly that a key for your PC.

Computer geeks and white-hat hackers in the UK developed the KidSafe Parental Control Key to help lock down computer access in the easiest and most secure way possible. Each key is unique and cannot be duplicated. When inserted, they key allows your computer to boot and access the internet. When removed, the computer is locked tight, and unusable.

Kids today are smart, and can get around Windows passwords, and Internet filtering programs pretty easily. Proxies and workarounds exist for even the most draconian firewalls, but the KidSafe key protects your computer and your kids with a physical key. It’s stronger, more reliable, and more convenient than passwords. It can’t be uninstalled or worked around – even by booting to safe-mode. They’ve even got processes to keep your computer from booting to a live CD or other boot device.

You can buy the KidSafe security key from Think Geek for $59.99.

With a fifteen million dollar grant, DARPA is researching the feasibility of creating personal, self healing shields. The idea is rapidly looking to become reality thanks to “metamaterials,” a composite molecule is not only self repairing, but invisible to boot. Think of a Harry Potter like invisibility cloak that also repels a 7.62mm round from an AK47. The result hopes to be invisible body armor good for just about any combat situation that is lightweight, easy to deploy, can capable of return fire.

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There’s USB power for just about everything these days. So, when we found the Portable USB Paper Shredder by Kinlan Industrial it wasn’t that too suprising. But it is very helpful for those who travel for a living.

People who deal with sensitive information on the go really need a means to destroy documents without having to lug around a shredder that has to plug into a wall socket. Weighing in at a svelte 12 ounces and fitting in the palm of your hand, the Portable USB Paper Shredder can either run on four AA batteries, AC adapter or the USB power from a laptop/PC. Now that’s flexibility. It can also shred standard documents with it’s 10 inch length.

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There’s a scene in Star Wars Clone Wars where a clone trooper tosses up a floating remote camera and uses it to survey the entire city from the safety of building’s rubble. The camera has multiple lenses to provide complete 360 degree coverage of the entire area. In real life, this was largely the kind of idea used by the Walt Disney company for many of their 360 degree movies they showed at Disneyland and Epcot – only they used multiple cameras, not one camera with multiple lenses.

Now Google is using life to imitate art with their latest “street view” features of Google maps. Immersive Media is the company which uses a drive by technique, and a multi-lensed camera – called the Dodeca Telemmersion® System.

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There has never been more visible and more worrying hidden cameras around, almost everywhere that you go you are likely to be caught on camera, but there is nothing that we can really do about it, because it is the way that we live now. But there is also a growing amount of hidden cameras used for surveillance at work and sometimes even at home, whatever the reason there is now a small device that you can use to see if there are any hidden cameras watching you.
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Spy cameras seem to be all over the place at the moment, yesterday we reported on the spy in the sky and in the past we’ve had cameras concealed in teddies, the really cool remote control car (with infra-red spy cam) and a slew of other spy cameras. The next camera to add to your covert office surveillance is the tie cam, a video camera concealed in a regular looking tie.

An extremely high resolution, 450Tvl, CCD pinhole camera discreetly hidden in a tie – virtually impossible to detect with the naked eye- and a miniature digital video recorder, small enough to fit into a cigarette pack, to record extremely high quality colour video and sound.

This little 007 gadget will set you back to the tune of $1,355 (£645.99) from Spy Catcher Online, a somewhat expensive way to prove who is office slacker when it comes to filling the coffee machine.