Camera shirt

               Wow, I have always secretly been a spy.

               The company Thinkgeek has created a t-shirt that James Bond would find incredibly useful.  Although to the average eye the shirt looks like an ordinary blue shirt with a graphic image printed on the front, the shirt has a tiny digital camera attached to the front of it.  The camera is connected to a feedback remote that the user can hide in his pocket or his hand and is what is used to snap the photos.  The remote vibrates when the picture is finished.  You can store up to 150 photos on the camera and the photos are downloaded through a USB onto the PC. 

This is simply incredible that a camera can be made small enough to take photos like this.  The photos are 640 by 480 resolution, which is by no means incredible quality but for a camera small enough to be incognito in a t-shirt, this is still pretty good.  The website does state, however, that the camera should not be used in low light situations, being that the photos may not come out at all, so the wannabe spy will be forced to spy in broad daylight. 

While this camera is an interesting novelty, there are some implications as to the invasion of privacy.  Although there are no specific laws that prohibit secretly taking pictures, there are not too many people who will be willing to have people secretly take their photos.  It could also technically be used to take illicit or inappropriate photos of people in places such as bathrooms and dressing rooms.  While there are some negatives to the new camera shirt, it is mostly just a novelty that shows how far technology has come.