The dream of concealing a tiny video camera inside a pair of glasses dates to the days of Dick Tracy, but these days a child can have the real thing, with the SpyNet Stealth Recording Video Glasses, $40, in toy stores this month from Jakks Pacific. And they really work.
The low-res camera peeks out from a small hole in the bridge, and the tiny lithium-polymer battery, 128 megabytes of RAM and USB port are just behind the fat hinges.
By pressing a button on top of the frame while “adjusting” the glasses, you can either snap a rather grainy photo, in JPEG format, or start capturing up to 20 minutes of video, in the AVI format. To see your video and charge the battery, you plug the glasses into a Mac or Windows computer with the included USB cable. You can edit your video with any standard video or photo editor. The New York Times
