Hidden Camera Video Spy Pen Review

Original Sphere Pen Camera – Hidden Video Spy Pen in Silver-trimmed Black Executive Pen. A Sphere Gadget Technologies brand product. 640 x 480 pixel. 4GB. Comes in original Sphere gift box. Descriptions : NOTE: Please ensure you purchase from an authorized Sphere seller. Ensure the product you receive looks exactly as shown in the images. Customers have experienced receiving counterfeit Sphere products from unauthorized sellers and left negative reviews. ** The original SPHERE spy pen to catch your family and friends on video without them noticing! Encased in this elegant looking executive pen is a 2.0 megapixel CMOS lens that captures video in super-clear HQ 640 x 480 pixel resolution. Thanks to the Micron Chipset processor, video saves in a smooth 30 frames per seconds – the frame rate you get from most full-sized digital cameras! The SPHERE spy pen also takes JPEG still images at 1600 x 1200 photo resolution, all at the push of a button. 4GB of built-in internal memory that can store over 1 hour 30 minutes of video footage. Viewing and copying files is easy – unscrew the barrel of the pen to reveal the USB port which connects to your PC or MAC. No adapters/cables or drivers needed. Once connected, the unit becomes a conventional 4GB flash drive. Simply drag and copy files to transfer the video and images onto your computer in minutes! Turn pen tip to extend ballpoint pen to write just like any other pen. Perfect for sales, law enforcers, spy shopping, pranks, parties, spy games, home movies, internet fun, lawyers, evidence collection and more. *Compatible with most Windows PC and Apple MAC O/S. * Video files plays back under most video playing software including Windows Media Player, Quick Time, Real Player, VLC, WinDVD, PowerDVD and more. Also comes with KMplayer video playing software. **Built for performance, quality and reliability. —To protect your legal liability and interests, audio recording feature has been deliberately disabled in this model. Consequently, this product complies with 18 U.S.C. 2512 (criminal procedure: wiretapping law) making this the first and only LEGAL surveillance spy pen in the market today.

The original spy pen designed and developed by Sphere Gadgets Technologies. Version 3.51, new 2011 model.

4GB built-in flash drive allows more than 1.5 hour of HQ video data recording, or store up to 8,000 still pictures.

Powered by SGT’s Micron Chipset – the advanced video capture enchancement processing unit.

Inconspicuous hidden CMOS camera in pen offers steathy video recording at 640 x 480 pixel resolution, or

Plug-and-plays into your PC and/or MAC computers. Built-in Li-ion battery charged by USB from computer or wall socket.

Capture still images at 1600 x 1200 pixel resolution.

Compare of Original Sphere Pen Camera – Hidden Video Spy Pen in Silver-trimmed Black Executive Pen. A Sphere Gadget Technologies brand product. 640 x 480 pixel. 4GB. Comes in original Sphere gift box.

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All About Chrome OS Laptops

The spotlight on Day Two of the Google I/O developer event here in San Francisco was firmly on the company's Chrome OS. After six months in which only a prototype was available, laptops running Google's Chrome operating system will finally come to market for consumers, businesses and education. Two Chrome laptops, one made by Asus and one by Samsung, will be sold by Best Buy and Amazon in the US starting June 15. And Google announced inexpensive lease deals that will give businesses laptops and other infrastructure, support and end-of-life hardware replacements for just $28 per user per month.

The keynote was every bit as news-heavy and action-packed as the first day keynote: Google also unveiled some Chrome OS upgrades that give users more control over locally stored files, along with announcing several key HTML5-related updates to its Chrome browser. But the announcement that got some of the biggest cheers was this one: Angry Birds will become available as a desktop app in the Chrome Web Store!

The huge hall here at the Moscone Center was nearly full, with around 4,000 developers, media people and others.

Chrome Laptops for Consumers

The Samsung Chrome OS laptop will have a 12.1 inch display, "all-day" battery usage, Wi-Fi and an option for Verizon 3G service. The Wi-Fi only version will cost $429, while the 3G version will go for $499. The Acer Chrome Book will have an 11.6-inch screen and Wi-Fi, and will sell for "$349 and up."

Google's slogan for the Chromebooks is "Chromebook: Nothing but the web." The argument behind it is this: The Chromebook is almost completely an internet device. If you can do your work and access your content on the web, you don't need the virus updates, slow local services, and endless startup process that can plague a conventional PC.

But Google clearly knows that asking users to give up the security of a local hard drive and conventional desktop software is a hard sell. So it tried to make businesses a particularly compelling offer.
Google wants businesses to use the new Chromebooks to quickly and inexpensively update their laptops to run a modern OS. Google says half of all company-owned PCs in America still run Windows XP.

To make the Chromebooks fit in better in the office, Google is working on a "Chrome Box", a flat square box that connects Chromebooks to large monitors and company file systems.

And here's the kicker: Google says it is offering businesses the Chromebooks, the Chrome Box, full support, full warrantee service and automatic end-of-life equipment replacement at a price of $28 per month per user. (I think I heard a couple gasps around me when this was announced.)

In short, Google is seriously upping the ante in its challenge to Microsoft in the workplace. It's already making inroads with its Google Docs cloud-based productivity apps, but now it has dramatically sweetened its offer to provide the OS and even the hardware, too. At this price, Google's offer could be a very attractive to many businesses.

A similar offer is being extended to education, but the price per month per user for schools is only $20.
Improvements to OS

The biggest problem with the Chrome OS to date is that it's been so completely about the web that you really miss being able to do things like download and install apps or play music or video content on the local hard drive. You just couldn't do that in the first iteration of Chrome OS.

Knowing this Google appears to have made some real-world concessions in response to the problem. It has added a file manager, where you can store music and video files you've downloaded. There's also a new media player in the OS that you can use to play the content. This alone makes me want to give Chrome OS another chance.

Google says the OS will stream content from Hulu and Netflix and the new media manager will plug into the new Google Music Beta and Google Movies services. The OS handles photos better now too. Users can now plug in a camera to the Chromebook, move photos from the camera, then store them in the cloud.
Chrome Browser Improvements

The day wasn't all about the Chromebook. Google announced today several cool new HTML5 tricks for its Chrome browser. Google has been a strong proponent of HTML5, which it says developers can use to develop one version of a Website or service that will have advanced capabilities, and most importantly, work on "all modern browsers."

Google has built some impressive APIs for the Chrome browser that will help developers create cool web pages faster. For instance, developers can use a Google API to build voice recognition into their apps. Google says it has also improved the hardware acceleration of its browser, which revs up the graphics card in the PC to render highly dense, colorful animated graphics.
Google also made several announcements about its Web App Store, where Chrome users can grab apps to run in the Chrome browser. Google says that people spend twice as much time in Chrome apps compared with apps on other platforms, and make two and a half times more purchases within the apps.

When the guy who made Angry Birds took the stage here it was clear that the popular game had come to the desktop as a Chrome App. Huge applause. Developers, it appears, love Angry Birds too. (It occurred to me that employers everywhere should mourn the time and productivity that just went out the window with the announcement of a desktop-based game as addictive as Angry Birds.)

The only thing developers love more: Keeping as much money as possible from the sale of their apps. Google got uproarious applause with the announcement that it will take only a 5 percent flat commission on each app sold by a developer at the Web Store. Apple, by contrast, takes a 30 percent commission on app sales.

Finally, Google announced today that everybody in the room will be getting a Chromebook, so I will give it a thorough run-through and let you know if the "Web book" is finally, really, ready for prime time.

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Review HP EliteBook 8460p

HP's new EliteBook line looks much like models in the older EliteBook line, such as the EliteBook 8440w we reviewed 15 months ago. Yes, the external skin offers a more pleasing brushed aluminum aesthetic, but it's still a little clunky looking. You could call it the gray flannel suit of laptop computing.

The latest EliteBook 8460p is the smallest model in the EliteBook lineup, with a 14-inch screen and a weight of about 5.5 pounds. The new model is equipped with one of the latest-generation Intel Core CPUs. Our review unit carried a 2.5GHz Core i5 2520M with a maximum turbo boost speed of 3.2GHz. HP's configuration also included 4GB of RAM, Windows 7 Professional 64-bit edition, and a Radeon HD 6470M mobile GPU.

The Radeon HD 6470M is fully DirectX 11-compliant, but it's unlikely to give you much of a performance boost in current-generation DX11 games: Its 3DMark 2011 performance score is a modest 598. T play hardcore games, you'll have to dial down the resolution and detail settings substantially.

But the EliteBook 8460p is all about business, not play, and HP includes a robust package of software that caters to business users. HP ProtectTools, for example, gives end users and IT managers fine-grain control over security features, such as drive encryption and user login control. ProtectTools includes facial-recognition software that can work in concert with your Bluetooth-enabled phone to verify that the person logging in is really you.

HP Power Assistant is a reskinning of the Windows Power Management controls, but it isn't deeply buried and it's substantially more user-friendly than its predecessor. Like ProtectTools, Power Assistant supports remote management by IT system administrators, if the right HP management suite is running on the server.

The laptop's overall performance was about average for a system of its class, with a PC WorldBench 6 score of 124. Battery life is quite good, at well over 5 hours in the PCWorld Labs' battery life test.

The keyboard's feel is excellent, with good tactile feedback during touch-typing sessions. HP supplies both a pointing stick and a trackpad, plus two sets of buttons located to provide optimal support for each pointing device. Even though I'm a trackpad user, I liked having both sets of buttons at hand, since I could easily reach one button or another with different fingers while touch-typing. The trackpad is well-designed, too--not too sensitive and offering good support for multitouch-gesture recognition.

Another plus is the matte-finish LCD panel in place of a glossy glass display. Matte finishes sometimes yield somewhat muted color saturation, but the resulting display is much more usable because it minimizes reflections and glare. Video playback quality was excellent: DVD upscaling showed only a little edge enhancement, and we noted good detail levels on the native 1366-by-768-pixel screen. (HP also offers 1600 by 900 resolution as an option.) High-definition playback scaled down to native resolution looked very nice.

On the other hand, the overall audio quality through the built-in speakers was abysmal. Without the SRS audio enhancement software activated, maximum perceived sound levels were very low, and music had a tinny, grating quality. With SRS switched on, the speakers' perceived loudness went up, but the sound stage seemed muddy and treble was completely lost in the midrange. I played around with different settings, but ultimately I couldn't improve the music-listening experience. Surprisingly, movie audio quality was somewhat better, though still muddy sounding. I strongly recommend that you use headphones or external speakers if you plan on listening to a lot of music.

The EliteBook 8460p we tested shipped with a 320GB Hitachi hard drive and a DVD-recordable optical drive. The hard drive seemed a bit sluggish, and the system took several minutes to boot. HP does offer larger-capacity hard-disk drives as well as several solid-state drive options. On the optical front, you can add Blu-ray as an option.

The system comes with plenty of connections, including a USB 2.0 port on the right side that's designed to make charging USB-connected mobile devices easier. The other USB 2.0 port on the right is a combo eSATA port. Two SuperSpeed (USB 3.0) ports are on the left side.

The left side also houses an ExpressCard slot, a four-pin FireWire connector, and the optical drive. A VGA connector, ethernet, and an actual V.92 modem connector is built into the back. A full-size DisplayPort connector is available on the right side, as are a pair of audio mini-jacks--one input and one output. Our unit shipped with 802.11n, Bluetooth, and gigabit ethernet. Cell-phone-style mobile broadband cards are available as an extra-cost add-on.

The preconfigured model of the 8460p delivered to PCWorld is priced at $1199--a touch high for a midrange business class laptop with its configuration and performance. However, it's price is considerably lower than that of any custom-configured unit.

Overall, the HP EliteBook 8460p offers decent performance, a good display, and a great keyboard in an unassuming exterior design. The price for preconfigured models is reasonable, given some of the system management features built into the EliteBook. So if you're looking for a fairly light business-class all-purpose laptop that gets the job done without being flashy, the 8460p deserves closer inspection. Just remember to bring your own headphones.



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Mini Wireless Spy Camera 2.4GHz Color Spycam

Introducing the World's Smallest "Truly Wireless" COLOR Spy Camera. Measuring about the size of a dime, concealing this camera is not a problem. The transmitter uses the 2,400MHz "switch phase" circuitry to GUARANTEE no interference from cordless phones.

Digital circuitry ensures no lost video from external wireless devices. Range is a minimum of 300 feet through walls. In an open area the transmission range jumps up to 600 feet.

The color sensor is Sharp brand so you can expect excellent quality. The best performing color wireless cmos camera on the market, PERIOD.

Feature :

Operation is SIMPLE. Anyone can use this amazing wireless camera.
Simply snap a 9 volt battery onto the camera/transmitter unit
Attach The Wireless Receiver To Your VCR or Television
THAT IS ALL THERE IS TO IT!


Covert video surveillance has never been easier. With the ability to use a single 9 volt battery, concealment is no problem. Hide in a plant, a book, a video case, air vent, automobile, the only requirement is to make sure the small pinhole lens is facing the video surveillance target. When properly placed, the wide camera angle will give you a complete view of a normal size room.


Spesification :


Color 420 Line Sharp Sensor @ 2 Lux
600 Foot (line of sight) Range
300 Foot (through walls) Range
Operates on a Single 9 Volt Battery
Matching 2.4GHz Wireless Receiver Included
Size = 2/3" Cube
Field Of View 80 Degrees
Pinhole Style Lens
NTSC (U.S.A.) Video System


Usage :


Nanny Camera
Residential Surveillance
Small Business Surveillance
Automobile Security / Back-Up Camera
R/C Enthusiast in Airplanes and Helicopters
Motorcycle Helmet Camera
Great For Any Application Requiring Small Size and Portable Use


Content :

1 Full Color Miniature Wireless Video Camera
1 Perfectly Matched 2.4GHz Wireless Receiver
1 Video Cable For Receiver To VCR/TV Hook Up
2 9V Battery Clips for Camera and Receiver
Satisfaction of Owning The World's Smallest Color Wireless Camera





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Hidden Spy Camera Sunglasses DVR Camera Video TF Card Black Red Blue

Specification

• Product Name: 2GB 4GB 8GB Hidden Spy Camera Sunglasses DVR Camera Video TF Card Black Red Blue
• Effective: 2011-05-20 - 2011-06-19
• Item Code: g153012278
• Catalog: Spy Sunglasses
• Package Size: 30 * 30 * 20 ( cm )
• G.W./package: 1.500 (kg)
• Short Description: 2GB 4GB 8GB Hidden Spy Camera Sunglasses DVR Camera Video TF Card Black Red Blue Grey DVR68 freeshipping
  2GB 4GB 8GB Hidden Spy Camera Sunglasses DVR Camera Video TF Card Black Red Blue Grey DVR68

Description

Features:
Support several audio formats, e.g. wmv, mp3, wma, and other music formats.
Polaroid Lens from brand makers
User friendly operation button for easy control
With extended memory slot for TF/MicroSD Card
Easy connection with PC/Laptops, no driver needed
Built-in 2GB memory with extended memory for as long as 5 hours video recording
Sleek and elegant design suits for both men and women users
Real time recording
Recommended for journalists, traffic , travelers and students
Product Specifications:
Product Size 170mm x 160mm x 40mm
Physical weight 39grams
Speed Read>700kbs, write>500kbs
USB 2.0
Power supply Embedded 550mAh Li-polymer Battery
Power duration 4-5 hours
Power Adapter 5V DC/500mAh
Power Consumption <0.4W
Memory Built-in 2GB-8GB, Support TF/MicroSD card, .4GB
Resolution 640x480 1.3mage photo :1280*1024
Video Format AVI
Recording Speed 30fps
Working temperature 0°C - 60°C
Storage temperature -20°C - 80°C
Player Quicktime, Real player, codec
Menu Language English
Operating System Windows 98/ /XP/2000/Vista



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Hands On With the Samsung Chromebook Series 5

Hang on, folks, because mobile computing has just got a bit more interesting. Google’s Chrome OS is finally ready for the wild--two years after its launch—and the Samsung Chromebook Series 5, due out on June 15, will be one of two laptops to showcase Google’s Web-based operating system.
When Chrome OS was first announced two years ago, I wondered if we really needed another mobile OS. Many of my questions still stand, especially given the runaway success of Android. But after taking the Samsung Chromebook Series 5 for a spin tonight, I was pleasantly surprised to see how far some aspects of the laptop and its OS have come.

From the outside, the Chromebook looks like any other ultralight laptop, save for the Google Chrome logo on the outside cover. It measures 11.6 by 8.6 by 0.8 inches, compact, but not especially svelte.
Its weight doesn’t impress, either. At 3.3 pounds, it’s no featherweight like the Apple MacBook Air; however, at least the Chromebook felt deceptively lighter than it is, a phenomenon I’d credit to how well-balanced the laptop felt in hand. I was surprised by how easily I could grip the Chromebook in one hand, actually.

One of the big selling points of Chromebook is its near-instant-on capability. It starts up in under 10 seconds from a cold boot, and it's ready to use as soon as you open the lid to wake it from sleep. The latter mirrors the sense of immediacy one gets with a Google Android 3.0 tablet, but that cold boot time remains an important differentiator. Android continues to have overhead bottlenecks that cause startup and shutdown times to take some time. None of the Android 3.0 tablets I’ve tested have wowed me with their boot times; and for a couple, I literally was able to grab some iced tea and down half of it before the tablet came to life again.

While some of the Chromebook’s startup zippiness has to be credited to the design of Google’s Chrome OS, some of it, perhaps, could be due to the components inside. The Series 5 actually runs components that echo today’s netbooks: It has a 1.66GHz dual-core Intel Atom N570 processor, 2GB of RAM, and a 16GB mSATA SSD (used for caching data locally). Those specs are meatier than what you’ll find in an Android tablet today.

Physical connectivity on the Series 5 Chromebook is minimal. All ports along the sides are tucked away beneath covers, except for a lone USB 2.0 port at the far right rear of the laptop. You get an SDHC card slot at front, another USB 2.0 port beneath a cover at the left, a video-out port, and a full-size SIM card slot (on the 3G-capable white and titanium models). The 3.5mm headphone jack doubles as a microphone input as well; and the Chromebook has a 1-megapixel Webcam for video chat.
The island-style keyboard felt very roomy and comfortable for my touch-typist fingers. I liked the smooth and roomy trackpad as well; it wasn’t stiff, as I’ve found with other touchpads that double as the mouse buttons. The keyboard swaps out the function keys of yore for a row of browser-friendly keys, though the idea of having navigation buttons like page back, page forward, refresh, and new window situated so far up on the keyboard seems like it may be counterproductive (I’d prefer such keys to be more handily situated, but I’ll need more time with the laptop to tell how well they work in practice).

I was encouraged at the Google I/O keynote introducing the Chromebook to hear about the file manager that’s been added to Chromebook. I’ve been tracking the challenges of native file handling in mobile operating systems, and was eager to give this feature a try on Chromebook.

My torture test was simple: I pulled out a random USB drive and attached it to the USB port. Chrome OS quickly recognized external storage was attached, and up popped the file manager as another tab in the Chrome browser on-screen. I was able to view my folders and files, select a file, preview the image in a pane at right, or double-click to open the image.

The high-resolution images didn’t always automatically resize to fit the screen (as they do when you double-click on a photo in Microsoft Windows Explorer and open it Window Photo Viewer), but they looked good on the 12.1-inch, 1280 by 800 pixel display. Really good. Colors were vibrant and accurately rendered--no small trick, as we’ve seen from Android 3.0’s snafus. The file manager remains limited for now--the version I used lacked the ability to do basic file copy functions--but a Google rep promised that functionality will be in place soon.
While nosing around the Chrome OS interface, I looked at how apps appear in the Chrome browser (see the image above) I also tried replicating my usual Web browsing experience in the Chromebook’s Chrome browser. (Hrm. I think I just tested how many times one can put Chrome into a sentence.) The usage I was trying to gauge here was the scenario that sees 30-some-odd tabs open simultaneously--and that’s just in one window. While I learned about a couple of interface shortcuts, like jumping to a different tab by pressing the tab number and a key combo, while talking with Google reps about this scenario, I learned that right now, it’s not easy to move among scores of open tabs. Those tabs were reduced down to tiny tabs with just “…” as a tab identifier—and that’s no way to figure out what’s actually on that tab.

Considering these tabs will, in the Chrome OS universe, represent your open documents, media files, applications, and Web pages, this is an interface challenge that Google will need to crack, and soon. Google reps said that several approaches are being considered, but nothing has been nailed down as yet. Of course, this is where Chromebook and Chrome OS’s regular updates, currently scheduled for once every six weeks, will come in handy.

I’m not convinced that everyone will want, or even need, a Chromebook. But what I saw so far looks to have promise. And with pricing for Samsung’s models starting at $430 for the Wi-Fi version, and $499 for the 3G version, the Chromebok looks set to give standard netbooks and ultralight laptops some new competition.



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Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1: Everything There Is To Know

The Android tablet race is about to get a dashing new contender.
Samsung's Galaxy Tab 10.1 will officially launch next week, the company announced on Thursday. The Galaxy Tab will go on sale in New York City on June 8, with a limited number of units available at the Best Buy in Union Square. The device will reach stores nationwide nine days later, on June 17th.


So what's Samsung's new Galaxy Tab all about, and is it right for you? Take a quick scan of the high points -- and the low ones -- and see what you think.

Samsung's Galaxy Tab 10.1 design has certainly earned a lot of attention. The company originally unveiled the device in February -- then, after seeing Apple's iPad 2, decided to pull back the product and go back to square one.

The new Galaxy Tab is billed as the world's thinnest tablet, beating out Apple's offering by a hair: The 10.1 Tab is 8.6 millimeters thick compared to the iPad 2's 8.8-millimeter size. The Galaxy Tab is also slightly lighter, at 565 grams compared to the iPad 2's 601-gram weight.

Look, when it comes down to it, the differences are pretty -- shall we say -- slim. The point is this: The Galaxy Tab is really freakin' thin. Capisce?
Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1: The Hardware

Size aside, the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 rocks a Nvidia Tegra 2 1GHz dual-core processor along with 1GB of RAM. It has a 3MP camera on the back and a 2MP camera on the front. The Tab can record video at 720p with 30 frames per second.

The new Tab's 10.1-inch screen has a resolution of 1280-by-800 pixels. Its battery, a 7000 mAh unit, is said to be good for nine hours of continuous use on a single charge.
Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1: The Software

Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 Tablet

The Galaxy Tab 10.1 ships with Android 3.1, the latest version of Google's Honeycomb OS. In an interesting twist, Samsung is shipping the tablets with Google's stock Android software -- but plans to update them at some point "in the near future" to add in its proprietary TouchWiz UI. Depending on your perspective, this may be a good or a bad thing.

Like most Android devices, the Galaxy Tab 10.1 fully supports playback of Adobe Flash content.
Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1: The Storage

Samsung's Galaxy Tab 10.1 comes in both 16GB and 32GB models. Neither model supports external storage via microSD, according to a Samsung representative.
Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1: The Pricing

Samsung's 16GB Wi-Fi Galaxy Tab 10.1 will cost $499. The 32GB Wi-Fi model will cost $599. You can place a pre-order at any Best Buy store beginning June 8 (only the New York City Union Square store will have them in-stock on that day). Starting June 17, the tablets will be available nationwide at Best Buy, Fry's, Amazon, Micro Center, Tiger Direct, and New Egg. Sprint will also be selling the Wi-Fi tablets later this summer.

If Wi-Fi doesn't cut it for you, Verizon Wireless will soon offer 4G versions of the Galaxy Tab 10.1 as well. The 16GB 4G model will cost $529.99 with a two-year contract; the 32GB version will cost $629.99 with a two-year contract. Verizon is currently accepting pre-orders but has yet to announce when the 4G models will ship; a spokesperson tells me a date should be announced sometime "in the coming weeks."

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