Spy Review

This handheld wireless receiver and digital video recorder is a bit of spy kit that has been on my wish list for a long time. Thanks again to Pakatak, I finally get to play with this lovely bit of kit! In a nutshell, the receiver allows you to receive any 2.4GHz wireless camera and then record the video footage into an MPEG4 format. There are many overt and covert video cameras that are compatible with this receiver, as it uses the standard video frequencies. This kit combines a receiver, 2.5 inch (5 cm) monitor and a video recorder in a single portable gadget.

This kit particularly lends itself to operations in the field. No bulky monitors, PCs or laptops to worry about when using this portable receiver. All you need is a battery, a camera and the receiver.

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In some ways watches are the most coveted of all spy gadgets because of the neat tricks that some of us have seen them perform, albeit in fictional tales such as Bond movies. Also, since watches are worn by so many people, they can lend themselves to being more discreet and not arouse any suspicion compared to some other body-worn devices.

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Wired CCTV camera systems have been around for years. There are many sophisticated boxes that you can buy that allow you to see many video cameras at once. Some computer-based camera systems can give you 16 windows from 16 different surveillance cameras at once! The Quad 2.4GHz Wireless Camera Receiver gives you the capability to see 4 spy cameras at the same time, but of the wireless variety.

What’s the significance of this? It is very unusual to find a wireless camera receiver that allows you to view all four camera channels simultaneously. Most other wireless receiver solutions only allow you to view a single camera channel at a time, and therefore the best they achieve is to just cycle through each camera channel.

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The micro-DVR camera kit is truly an expression of how small spy equipment has become over the years. This miniature camera stick is about the size of a standard cigarette lighter (73mm x 20mm x 11mm), yet it conceals a tiny pinhole camera and a simplified version of an MPEG4 video recorder! The micro-DVR supports up to 2GB microSD memory cards, giving you hours of video recording.

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The body worn camera kit consists of a MPEG video recorder unit and a tiny pinhole camera where the lens looks like a normal black button. The idea of the unit is that you conceal the camera about your person or hidden in a bag for covert filming. Since the camera lens is hidden in the button, you’re able to place the camera where it has a greater field of view without attracting attention.

Pakatak kindly provided me with their body worn camera kit to review, and I must say that I am very impressed (and that doesn’t happen very often). In this review, I’ll highlight the best features of both the recorder unit and the camera.

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Wouldn’t it be really cool to have a spy camera that could be used to record a video of exactly what you see? Wouldn’t it be even better to have it completely concealed so that nobody knew that you were spying on them? Sounds something you would see in the TV Series Bugs (actually Season 3, Episode 8: Buried Treasure to be precise!). This great article on Instructables shows you how you can make your own covert spy camera sunglasses made from low cost chunky sunglasses and a cheap spy camera from eBay.

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Now this is an unusual spy camera, as its a covert spy camera with builtin digital video recorder (DVR) hidden in a belt buckle! The DVR is able to record video in the 3GP video format (176 x 144 pixels) which is typically the format used by mobile phones to record video. The DVR is capable of recording audio and video onto a standard SD memory card slotted into the buckle!

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