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Hidden Video Cameras: Update

Video cameras were, for the longest time, the stuff of dreams. Super spies had them and master villains. Then, reality caught up with fiction. The problem was at first that they were very expensive and just about the only ones who could afford them were the police and the very rich. Now, hidden video cameras are inexpensive, produce an extremely clear image and are small enough to be hidden anywhere.

Security cameras have no match when it comes to proving your point. Whether you want video proof of someone’s pet doing something it shouldn’t, pictures of someone doing or saying something they shouldn’t or proof that someone near and dear to you is doing something with someone they shouldn’t be, a hidden video camera can prove invaluable. Nobody can argue with a video recoding.

The business environment is really tough right now. Profits are slim or not there at all. If you own your own business, you cannot afford employee theft. One well placed hidden security camera can end all that. An excellent example is someone I know. He owns a liquor store. A lot of stock was disappearing. Try as he might, he couldn’t find where it was all going and who was doing it. One day, he installed a hidden video camera in the exit sign above the rear door. That day, he caught the janitor taking some bottles out in a garbage bag. End of theft.

The hidden video cameras mentioned above are called dvr cameras. They are wireless and have their own on board memory which records to something called an sv card. They are motion activated. If animals or little kids might be around, you can program it to avoid movement in the lower quarter of the field of view. When you think you’ve got your prey imaged, you take the camera to your computer and download the memory.

What you’ve seen here is just the tip of the iceberg of what you can do with hidden video cameras.

Probably the greatest feature of these devices is that you don’t have to worry about placing them where a radio signal can get through to a central receiver of some sort like the first wireless devices that came out. Locate it, hide it, plug and play. Kids and pets can be programmed out.

The imagination runs wild at the prospects of where to hide them, doesn’t it? How about in wall clocks, alarm clocks, exit signs, light fixtures, coffee makers, water coolers or candy bar displays?

Warning! These hidden video cameras will not prevent a crime, just record one happening. To stop crime, use cameras that are highly visible. That’s the subject for another article.

Related articles by J. Mack

• Peeping Tom – Dr. Steven Pack Arrested for Voyeurism (comsecllc.blogspot.com)
• Chicago’s Camera Network Is Everywhere (yro.slashdot.org)

Tags: Cameras, Hidden, Video

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