The PDLPENTX pen is a normal looking office pen with a secret microphone cleverly hidden inside of it. This pen is perfect for hidden audio surveillance. When you have a need to hear and record every word your target is saying, this ingenious audio surveillance pen will get the job done without being detected.

One of the features of the pen is that it can be used for up to ten hours at a time, allowing you to catch even the longest of conversations. Since the audio transmitter is cleverly disguised as a normal office pen, you can simply set it on the target’s desk in plain sight and capture every word they say without them ever knowing! (more…)

Sticky fingers now has a new, more literal, meaning. A security firm, G4S Cash Solutions, has invented a cash box that will spray all the money inside with glue, if it is broken into. Cash boxes are notoriously easy to steal and can be opened without much problem either. Currently a dye is being used to spray the money with colour if the cash box is forced open.

While the dyed notes can be used to track criminals, the notes can still be used in machines and in other ways. However, if the money becomes totally unusable, perhaps it would deter robbers from committing crimes. (more…)

Ever wondered some of the spy gadgets used by early secret agents? This video shows some of the early devices that were used by agents of MI6. Looking at these gadgets, one thing that is clear is that we have come a long way in the development of surveillance gadgets. These type of gadgets are no longer the privilege of secret agents as there are now much more advanced products than these available to the general pubic, but of course the products available to the secret service today is much more advanced still than those available to consumers.

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There are so many different types of spy cameras now available, all of which promise to be covert, but some are quite often not as undetectable as they claim. However, this one mimics a wall switch, so it has a very good chance of going undetected. But there are some down points to this camera as well. (more…)

About three years ago, News of the World was embroiled in an alleged phone hacking scandal, which led to the sacking of News of the World’s royal editor Clive Goodman and his subsequent incarceration after a court case. Both the Guardian and The New York Times now say that this was only the tip of an iceberg, leading to a call by former deputy PM John Prescott to call for reopening inquiries into the matter. He also said that he would take legal action to force the police to tell him if his phone had one of those hacked into. (more…)

There is increasing news coverage of India in the UK thanks to its booming economy, but with greater prosperity there is sometimes rise in activity that some might regard an unwanted side effect – espionage and surveillance – both at personal and corporate level that people perhaps wouldn’t have been subjected to otherwise, as this video shows. (more…)