Thanko's Spy Button video camera, because you've already failed
By Thomas Ricker 
posted Jul 2nd 2009 4:36AM
posted Jul 2nd 2009 4:36AM
[Via Akihabara News]
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but if I pony up and get 8 of these bad boys, my buttons WILL blend and I'll be able to record video with a hella high vertical resolution!
Good thinking!
Then you can do those nifty matrix effects too!
Now *that* is lateral thinking! Well, vertical thinking...
Drug dealers like wearing those big stupid dark glasses. Put a camera in those.
LOL. That was probably the funniest mini product review I have read in a long time. Laughed out loud.
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Been there done that.
i respect you
Now if they only made button up shoes.
Now see, that buttons all wrong.
Its the second button that makes the shirt.
that one is to close the the first button
Props for the Seinfeld shout-out ;)
Couldn't I just replace that button with another? Nothing a little glue gun action couldn't handle.
If your button has camera holes in it sure.
what's with the underlying nerd rage in this blog post
It's that he's failed so many times he has fail to give for free.
Sounds like Thomas Ricker may have been caught cheating with such a device. Cheating on his dork exam, that is.
If some decent hardware company would spend some time then this thing can be easily shrunk inside a button, this device is huge...
Most likely it´s already done though not at this pricetag, size comes at a price as ussually.
Further a smal design flaw imo is that they should have used one of the 4 holes to make it less obvious. Though kinda disturbing that some peeping tom would walk around with this.
Could probably rig something up to just use the buttonhole itself (not the button's hole).
Hey Honey, you don't mind if I leave my shirt on, do you?
And my socks? My feet smell a bit.
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Hey, where are you going?
Ummm... Did they ever think to give you a matching set of buttons? If you're willing to sacrifice a shirt to be your spy shirt, this could blend right in if additional similar looking buttons were included.
Exactly. It won't cost them much but will definitely give their product better appeal.
If you follow the "Read" link, they appear to offer several additional buttons for your matching pleasure.
That is nifty. I wonder if it'd hold up in the wash as well as most USB drives....
That's pretty funny! Think of all the covert things you could do with this button on your shirt, a real James Bond 007 invention. But then again, it could be a bit useless if you need to not be near whatever/whoever you're spying on. So possibly not the best spy tool, but a funny idea anyway. If I can find it on DubLi.com, I'll be sure to buy it!
We needed to drop these en masse in Iran a couple weeks ago.
What's the point of this? Perving?! It's not exactly Spy-Spec...
Just put your camera phone in a breast pocket, make a little hole in the fabric and do this for nothing.
Yes, but - the camera lens on most point and shoots extends itself while on, so having a little camera lens... umm... pokage.... isn't obvious in the least.
;-)
"hey, that button is magically floating on with invisible thread"
Maybe not this particular device, but why do you think this has use only for perving? Get your minds out of the gutter. :)
Admittedly, all my examples are comic, but it does suggest activities beyond perving:
I'm sure a drug dealer can find many uses for it.
An argument with your spouse can be ... uh.. interesting:
"No honey, that's not what you said... let's go to the video tape...."
A girl can record her dinner date, and then discuss it with her posse later.
I certainly wish I had one when I got pulled over by an "impolite" cop. (I won the court case.)
You might want to have one before you get stupid drunk. That way, you can re-live the embarrassing moments your friends told you about when you couldn't remember.
A robber might want to use it to scout the layout of a bank, or casino.
Spying on a neighbor or relative's family when there's evidence of child/animal abuse, and being able to backup your statement when you report it to officials. Sure bruises are good evidence, but they can be explained away.
Anyways, but the most fun you can have with it is perving. :)
For recording cops, definitely. Anybody organizing a protest these days should buy a gross of these.
For recording your spouse—no. It won't help. Really.
Except most wedding rings are made of gold which isn't magnetic. Of course most rings are made of gold alloy, I doubt the magnetic field would be strong enough to set this camera off.
is it bad that I want this?
I purchased one of these as part of a whole package of "spy" stuff. It actually came with 4 other buttons that look like the fake button, so you can make a custom "Spy Shirt" where the buttons match.
No instructions mentioned what the magnetic wedding ring it came with was for - glad to know what it's for now!
good for movie theater or filming at conventions
Shirts with buttons?