Do you ever wish you were more daring?
Rather than heading home to sprawl on the couch and stuff junk food in your gob after a hard day at the office, you long to get inside terrorist networks and carry out adrenaline fuelled covert missions.
Once you’ve finished changing the printer paper and making your boss coffee, you’d give your right arm to infiltrate terrorist cells and be let loose to punch international mad men in the kisser.
However, your run of the mill life has a tendency to get in the way.
Although there’s nothing stopping you crawling the pubs and clubs of Mayfair and ordering a Bondesque Martini – shaken, not stirred – it’s a fairly diluted double agent experience.
But help is at hand.
In an effort to be more Bond, we’ve compiled a list of three of the niftiest gadgets on the market that all you wannabe secret agents out there simply must get your hands on …
Listening devices
As a budding master of espionage, it’s important you find out what your enemies’ plans are before they’re let loose to wreak havoc on the globe. Consequently, it’s vital to invest in listening devices to dial in and hear what’s happening in real time.
These days, listening devices can be housed in all manner of objects – from a computer mouse to a six-way socket strip – meaning your bug is unlikely to be detected by your typical tyrannical ruler. Importantly, the monitoring is crystal clear, so you won’t miss a word of their evil plans.
Night Vision Camera
For the wannabe spy, twilight stakeouts are a staple part of the espionage diet, which means a top-quality night vision camera is essential. Mostly, you’ll be watching a wily fox nosing around a wheelie bin, but eventually you’ll spy your foe attempting something evil under the cover of darkness.
However, when choosing a night vision camera, ensure you opt for one with an advanced digital viewing system, which works in both day and night-time conditions. Don’t worry about running out of battery, though, as most work for 10 hours, allowing you to see up to 100 metres in the darkness.
Voice-recording pen
Any real life James Bond will tell you how important it is that your cover isn’t blown like some cheap balloon – which is why the gadgets you choose, where possible, should be designed to go unnoticed by a hawk-eyed despot …
… and what’s more ordinary than a ballpoint pen? Nothing. However, this particular ballpoint pen, my espionage-loving friend, conceals a voice recorder that’s activated by a nifty little switch hidden in its clip OR when it hears your target chatting about their plans to blow up Buckingham Palace.
Whilst the gadgets above will set you on the right path to becoming a master of disguise, there are various other items you’ll need in your armoury if you’re to save Queen and country from another maniacal oppressor – but that’s for next time, Bond …
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