Indiscreet spy camera features 21x optical zoom lens

Leonard Goh | Jul 24, 2009

Don't be fooled by her pretty looks--she might be spying on you. (Credit: Chinavasion)

Besides churning out fake iPhones and Obama's Blockberry, China is capable of producing some pretty ingenious products, too. However, we rather the manufacturers not use the term "spy" for the Avatar Digital Binoculars and Spy Camera because it hardly looks discreet.

This Swiss Army knife of a gadget features not just a 2-megapixel digicam, but also multimedia playback functions. But what's most impressive about the Avatar snapper's specifications has to be its 21x optical zoom lens, though the focal length wasn't specified.

The gizmo has 1GB of onboard memory which can be further expanded to 3GB via the microSD card slot. Navigation of menus is done on the 2.5-inch LCD and power is drawn from a rechargeable lithium-ion battery.

So who needs such a gadget? A curious line from Chinavasion's site explains: "While waiting for your prime suspect to appear, why not use the onboard media functions to listen to your music using the earphones provided with the Avatar." A detective, perhaps? Well, they better not get too engrossed in watching the movie on the shooter and losing sight of their target.

Via Gizmodo

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