World's Smallest Video Cameras

Typical applications are medical endoscopy, dental imaging, surgical robots, guide wire visualization, intubation equipment visualization, disposable equipment ...and some spy applications to be sure. 

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P.S. The one on the coin is a 3-D camera!

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Casino CCTV Commandeered in $32 Million Sting

Australia - Thieves have infiltrated Crown casino's surveillance system to pull off a $32 million sting.

A foreign high roller who was staying at Crown has been implicated in the rip-off, in which the venue's security cameras were used to spy for him. 

 
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Who's Watching Your Webcam

About this time last year I reported on hacking Internet-connected video security cameras. Now, let's watch another aspect of the problem, personal webcam spying...


Depending upon how old you are, you will recognize this is a reoccurring theme in works of fiction...

1998 - The Truman Show
The film chronicles the life of a man who is initially unaware that he is living in a constructed reality television show, broadcast around the clock to billions of people across the globe.

1964 - Wendy and Me
George Burns as landlord would watch his attractive young tenant on what appears to the modern eye to be a surreptitious closed circuit television transmission with hidden cameras (he also accomplished this with his "TV in the den" in later episodes of The Burns and Allen Show). 

1949 - 1984 
George Orwell predicts a populace kept under constant surveillance by closed-circuit security cameras that transmit footage back to Big Brother.

1939 - Television Spy

 

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