You may be in the market for spy gear and gadgets because:

• You want to give a spy enthusiast friend a gift he or she will surely enjoy
• Your child loves spy items and his or her birthday is coming
• You are a spy gadgets lover yourself
• You are just beginning to start your interest in this field.

Whatever your reason may be, you are interested to know where in the world you can find spy gear and gadgets.

Below are the best bets that you can have in buying some reconnaissance and surveillance equipment:

1. Specialty spy stores – Every town has one, you just have to know where to look. Ask around the neighborhood, particularly kids who like spy gadgets and you will find this specialty store.
2. Online spy stores – These virtual shops are very helpful as these stores conveniently list all their items in their site so you can fine whatever gadget you need with just a few clicks on you computer.
3. Toy stores – There are actually sections in toy stores that are devoted for spy gears. Jus ask assistance from your toy store associate.
4. Garage sales – Especially if the person who is holding the garage sale is a known military man or someone who does surveillance for a living.

Aside from these places, you can also participate in a spy gadgets enthusiasts forum so you can also ask for the “veterans’” advice on where to shop for spy gear and gadgets.

Are you looking for the latest in they spy gadgets industry? Well, there are always new and useful tools that are released in the market for all the spy tools enthusiasts out there, accounting for them all will be very difficult.

So here are just some of the latest spy gadgets:

1. De-FIB-ulator Lie Detector

This is actually a portable lie detector that is handheld and will fit easily in your bag or back pocket. This tool will use your voice quality and vibrations to detect if you are calm with your answer, as it happens when you tell the truth, or when it is shaky and erratic when you tell a lie.

2. BEE 100 Bionic Ear Device

What’s a spy without you hearing what is going on right? This state of the art gadget will let you hear the faintest of whispers by amplifying sound waves. Not only is this helpful in gathering information but you can also hear someone approaching your spy spot even from a few feet away.

3. Sunglasses Spy Camera (Colored or Black & White)

This is the ultimate Bond spy gadget. See if someone is following you, observe a subject even with your back turned from him or her or just protect your peepers from the sun. This piece of spy gear will pull together your spy ensemble once and for all.

4. Pen DVD recorder

This wireless piece of ingenuity will allow you to record up to 4 gigabytes worth of information inconspicuously. Luckily, this pen also writes in case someone borrows that pen hanging on your shirt!

Not everyone has the money to afford cool gadgets like the one Gadget Boy or Agent 007 has. That is why there are some cheap spy shops that are popping out all over the internet now, providing dirt cheap spy items that you can really use in your information hunts as a spy.

But at times, even dirt cheap money is tight so we have to make do with what we have. This is why this article will teach you on how to make your own spy gadgets. For this particular article, this will teach you how to make a Key Hole Surveillance gadget.

Here are the things that you will need:

• Clear glass marble
• Sheet of black construction paper
• Magic tape
• Scissors
• Ruler
• Stick

So here is how you can make this rather useful but easy to make spy gadget:

1. Measure the diameter of the marble using your ruler. Just an approximation will do.
2. Now cut a piece of that construction paper that is about 10 times the diameter of marble in length and 5 times in width.
3. Roll the construction paper with the marble inside the paper. Roll it very tightly and fasten this roll with your magic tape.
4. Push the marble with a stick so that the marble will poke out half of its body.
5. Place the marble on the keyhole and peer on the room with the other side of the black tube. You should be able to see inside the room with this gadget.

Kids nowadays, due to exposure to spy TV series and movies that promote cool-looking spy gadgets, are getting more and more hooked with these spy gadgets. But as a parent, is it really a good idea to let them play with spy gadgets toy that may promote creativity but still encourages invasion of privacy?

Let us examine spy gadgets in two ways. A list of advantages and disadvantages will make us more aware of the two faces of spy toys.

Spy Gadgets Toys Advantages

1. Allowing a child to play or make spy toys will increase their levels of creativity.
2. Making spy toys will also encourage your kids to learn about the science of how things work.
3. Allows them to play outdoors and indoors, which will lead to time away in front of the TV or computer.

Spy Gadgets Toys Disadvantages

1. It promotes the habit of intruding on other people’s lives and spaces. It does not strongly suggest for kids to respect other people.
2. It can increase the mentality of being too paranoid as they may in turn think that others will also be spying on them.
3. It may lead to the desire to have more complicated, pricey and sometimes even dangerous spy toys not suitable for the age your child is in.

In reality, all toys come with their own advantages and disadvantages. It is with proper parental supervision that allows for kids to take just the advantages of the toys in their lives and shoo away all the negative sides of toys.

Another day stuck inside the house with the kids? Or are you just looking for fun activities so you guys will have to stay at home but at the same time have fun (and of course, save a few extra bucks that will not be used in amusement park entrance fees)?

Well, here is another article that will teach you how to make kids spy gadgets. This one is very familiar to the kids as they might have seen this used in movies and cartoons. This spy tool is called a Book Vault. This will make a great place to hide spy information like pictures of your observed person or data that you have gathered so far. No one will expect your most valuable things to be hidden in this mundane house item.

Materials:

• Hard cover book (the thicker, the roomier it will be)
• Sharp cutter knife
• Pen
• Ruler
• Glue or Sticky tape (optional

How to make the book vault:

1. Open the book to the 20^th page or so.
2. Use the pen and draw a rectangle on the page that has the thicker slab of pages on it. Make sure that the rectangle is at least half an inch away from the edges of the page.
3. Use a cutter to slice off the pages, making sure you do not cut until the end pages. Leave at least 20 pages also.
4. Some may glue the pages that make the compartment or you can leave it as it is.
5. Place your spy tools inside!

Ever since you saw your first Bond movie where Q handed agent double O seven with a booby trapped briefcase, you have always wanted to be just like Q. Someone who makes gadgets, and good ones at that.

Actually, you do not need to be a rocket scientist to make spy gadgets on your own. In fact in this article, we will teach you how to make a very crucial spy gadget. And that is the periscope.

Before we begin, let us first explain what a periscope is. A periscope is actually a scoping instrument that will allow you to view on somebody or something without your head being spotted. So, you can see, a periscope is essential in any spying activity.

Let’s begin! For this, you would need three to four rolls of tissue paper cartons, a pair of sharp scissors, some tape, mirrors or reflective CD’s and some mighty sticking glue.

1. So first off, tape all your paper rolls together so that they make a long vertical rod.
2. Cut off a 1×1 inch of square on the tip of the paper roll rod
3. Cut a piece of the CD in such a way that it will fit in the paper rod and cover the 1×1 square diagonally.
4. Do the same thing on the other end of the rod.
5. Position the mirrors in a way that they reflect each other’s reflection. Then cut some slits to hold the mirrors in place.

And voila! You have your very own, home made spy tool!

There are actually a huge number of spy tools and gadgets that you can buy virtually anywhere. There are invisible ink pens available in toy shops, clue agents in odd stores and even spy cameras in computer shops. The world acknowledges spy tools enthusiasts and they are no longer persecuted for showing the need to know and observe.

But that does not mean that the spy gadget community is getting mundane, boring and mainstream. In fact, there are still a handful of high tech spy gadgets and quirky spying tools that will definitely sate your snobbish spy tools taste.

1. Secret stash containers (Shaped like everyday items)

These containers look like everyday household items like rust removers or even soda cans but inside, they have compartments where you can stash your valuable spy information, like a USB containing your fantasy football predictions and the like.

2. Cell phone gun 

It looks like any other cellular phone, black with buttons and a screen. But this cell phone, just like the ones you see in gadget movies, turns into a hefty fire power capable of releasing .22 caliber rounds.

3. Shot gun flashlight 

In the same field as item number 2, this flashlight may take the lights out of someone literally.

4. Phone voice changer

This handy item is perfect to use if you are planning to talk to your subject without him or her hearing your real voice. This nifty tool can even change your voice to a man’s, if you are a woman, which is helpful in keeping those “ex-boyfriend nightly calls” away.

If you love spy movies, you know you like watching them not because of the superior acting skills of the protagonists nor do you have particular fondness of the music score of such movies. You know you enjoy watching spy movies because of the spy gadgets that are used by the awesome lead character.

There are a handful of spy gadgets in the market right now and they are categorized in 5 subsections. You have the surveillance gadgets, personal gadgets, communication tools, trackers and of course, my personal favorite, chemical agents.

Under the surveillance category, you have gadgets to survey the area visually, through audio, via computer or even counter surveillance. Examples of these are peephole reverser tools that will allow you to view into a house or a room by docking this reverser on the peephole of a door, then peering in to survey.

For the personal gadgets, here you have the handy tools of the spy trade like lock picks and voice recorders to capture all your observances.

As for communication tools, these include wireless ear plug phones to communicate with your HQ discreetly while out on reconnaissance.

Belonging under the tracker category are tools that of course, let you know the exact position of the person you are trying to “learn about.” Under this category, you have the GPS tracker stick and bugs.

Saving my personal favorite for last are chemical agents that will help gather evidence about people or let you track their movement. Examples of chemical aids are gelling agents that come in liquid or oil bases.

All these tech gadgets bring a lots of fun into your life.

If you are stuck indoors all day due to a bad stormy weather with the kids and they are growing tired and restless, you know what will make as a great way to spend the day together? By making homemade spy gadgets!

One spy item that we are all very familiar with, what with all the permutations of CSI showing in basic cable nowadays, is finger print powder. But did you know that it is possible to make this powder at home?

Below are the tools that you will need:

• Starch powder
• Candle
• Lighter or matches
• 2 dishes made of porcelain
• Tongs
• Bread knife
• Clear sticky tape
• Clear card or book plastic cover
• Make up blusher
• Smooth surface (glass table works best)

And here are the steps to be start your home “crime scene” investigation.

1. Place some starch powder on the 1^st porcelain dish.
2. Light the candle and with the tongs, hold the 2^nd porcelain dish over the flame so that the dish will capture black soot.
3. Scrape the black soot off the dish with a bread knife and repeat the procedure so that you will get equal amount of soot and equal amount of starch. Mix the two.
4. Place your print on any smooth surface, dust it with the powder gently using the blusher, blow the excess powder.
5. Cover the print with sticky tape and transfer it to the clear card or plastic cover.
6. Voila! You have just lifted your first print!

If you are looking for a birthday gift for a child who loves to play spy games, if you are looking for a token to give to your husband who is into “cool spy gadgets,” or if you are personally interested in spy tools yourself, then below is a helpful list of spy gadgets you will surely consider buying.

1. Phone Voice Changer

This is a nice little battery operated gadget that can change your voice to suit whatever cover-up you have. It is also very handy for women and children who are home alone and are about to answer the phone.

2. Electronic Audio Surveillance Device

All spy toolbox are incomplete without having this listening device. This audio tool can make you hear what people are talking an entire basketball court away from you. A definite must have for any reconnaissance mission.

3. Bug Detector

As a true blue paranoid spy, one should also have counter-surveillance items to keep the other spies away from the information that you have. This detector can pick up radio frequency signals to pinpoint the location of any bug near your person.

4. Spy Sunglasses

Of course, this is the ultimate spy item, just like in the James Bond movies, you can also get a view of the life that happens behind you with this relatively cheap but extremely useful spy item.

5. Lock Pick Set

Just like item 4, this set of spy gear can not leave a spy’s back pocket. Very handy in getting in information recovery as it will allow you as a spy to go to places where people least expect you to be.