What is Spy Camera?
A Spy Cam is a type of micro DVR which is built into a deceptive package and made to resemble a small object, such as a keychain, a wrist watch, or a lipstick case. Known by numerous terms such as cam stick, gum cam, thumb cam, etc., these devices will often function according to their apparent purpose, as in a pen cam that actually writes.
Starting in 2008, spy cams became increasingly popular due to their falling prices. This was a consequence of advances in flash memory technology, which made available cheap, surface-mount chips of over a gigabyte capacity, which meant that the cams could typically record over an hour of video onto built-in memory before needing to offload their recorded content. |
