Spy Review

The shoe phone is not a phone shaped like a shoe, but a small mopbile phone embedded under the shoe. Can it be used for covert operations? Probably not for any high end surveillance, but the possibility always exists. If you are in situation where you have to completely visible and not carrying a cell phone, and there is little or no chance that your shoes are not going to be checked, then you can probably find a use for it.

Paul Gardner-Stephen, an Aussie, made the gadget as a prop for a theatre production in the beginning, but then later decided to make it for real. The heels of the shoes were hollowed and the phone was put into one heel and the Bluetooth headset into the other. The heels click back into place, making them look like ordinary shoes.

He has posted instructions on how to make the shoe phone on the internet and may just start manufacturing and selling them himself. Apart from any covert use, the shoe phone may well find a market among the elderly once it can be embedded with sensors to detect if a person has had a fall and in that case the phone in the show would automatically call up medical practitioner and go on speaker phone if the person can talk. This way it could find a market in hospitals and homes for the aged.

However, I really cannot see these being used in public places because it would simply be too awkward for anyone speaking into their shoes and looking like an idiot.