Spy Review

Once you've decided on monitoring a room through video surveillance, it's always difficult to determine what you're going to use to accomplish the task. The biggest question that you have to ask yourself is “Can I hide a camera in anything currently in the room?”. While the answer to this question is sometimes yes, the risk of it not being hidden well enough may be to great a risk to take. With the surveillance industry offering plenty of common house hold items already equipped with video cameras, there is one item that fits in nearly any room, a wall clock.

This particular wall clock looks pretty innocuous and should not raise any suspicion from that standpoint.

This specific covert video wall clock comes equipped with a built-in 460 TV resolution colour video camera which should provide a very clear picture. Once the unit is powered on through batteries or a wall plug, it will instantly output to an attached TV, monitor, or VCR.

To keep this clock undetectable, you will have to drill a hole behind it and thread the wires through it, but the advantage is that you can actively monitor them just by being one room over.

Unfortunately, the limited field of vision is a deal breaker on this covert video wall clock. Having a horizontal range of 70 degrees and a vertical range of 60 degrees is going to leave you a bit limited due to the fact that a wall clock can only be placed in certain areas without it looking suspicious. At a price of $325 from the WebCamStore.com, the covert video wall clock is only slightly less risky then hiding your own video camera in the room.