Yesterday, at a store called Fry's Electronics in Anaheim in SoCal, I bought one of the coolest inventions recently made. Called a pen camera, this device allows you to take candid shots (or voyeuristic shots...depending on how sick you are) whenever you feel like it. Of course, you may not go totally unnoticed when taking a photograph, as the pen camera makes beeping sounds when you activate it and a single beep tone when you press the shutter button when taking a pic. On the plus side, if someone asks you what it is and you don't want to tell them (for fear you might have to kill them...j/k), you can always say it's a pager, a voice recorder, one of those asthma thingamabobs (I don't know about this one) or a cigarette lighter. Today, I've already been asked twice about it, and I used the voice recorder alibi to cover my tracks.
Not only does this pen camera take regular photos...but it also functions as a web camera and a video recorder. Ain't technology great? At $86, it better be.