What do spies carry

Who says you need a photographic memory? Assuming for one second James Bond is an iPhone user, he may well put the Heart Rate Camera app to good use when in the field. And it would be a bit weird for Q to expect to carry around a sack of vegetables. Luckily a night vision monocular provides you with the ability to remove the veil of darkness before you. The technology for remote controlling a car is a little way off but wearable computers are starting to arrive such as the Motorola HC1.

The Motokata Bionic Ear Hearing Amplifier allows you to eavesdrop to a conversation from as far as twenty feet away.

You can connect it to the USB port on your computer and keep the hotspot charging while it is in use: no more dead zones and no more unreliable data. Spot Trace makes tracking a vehicle easy and accurate. You can use it to protect your vehicle from theft or use it to follow someone else.

These smart glasses allow you to make secret calls with your confidants without anyone else knowing about them. Not only that, but you have the power of Amazon Alexa at your beckoning call, providing you with insight on just about anything you ask without anyone else knowing about it. The WeBoost Drive X reaches out to faraway cell towers providing a signal for your phone. This wireless extender is an excellent tool for anyone who travels for a living, even if that living is super top secret.

Courtesy of Best Buy. But even better, this noise jammer is concealed as a pair of speakers that can play back different audio from its USB port so that you can deceive any suspicious figures in the room. Thermal imaging is a powerful tool, which is why it makes for a pretty cool spy gadget.

In other instances, it can make it easy to see what is going on in a foggy or smoky environment where visibility is low. This little attachment, packed with a pair of thermal sensors, plugs into the bottom of your phone and turns the screen into a thermal imaging viewfinder.

There may be times in your life when sensitive files need to change hands, and an encrypted hard drive is essential to keeping those secrets secure. But the Kingston IronKey S has a hardware encryption chip built into the drive itself so that you can be confident that your data is protected by the most rigid security protocols around with bit AES hardware-based encryption and Level 3 validation.

Long story short, with the encryption activated, nobody will ever lay their eyes on anything this drive contains. Any modern spy knows that half of the battle is preparation; you should always know what to expect when a situation gets out of hand. And to adequately prepare, reconnaissance is a vital part of the equation. Special surveillance needs are why the best drones make for the best spy gadget.

The DJI Mavic 2 Zoom is a drone that can help you get a literal birds-eye view of your objective while going undetected.

Need to record a conversation? Then we recommend this well-reviewed Sony digital voice recorder. They placed the mines on several Japanese ships and then found safe ground.

When the mines detonated, the limpet mines damaged or sunk seven ships, compromising over 39, tons between them. Not all ideas were winners, however.

By using flies, the government hoped to infect German troops in Spanish Morocco in an attempt to stop Spain from joining Axis powers. Other, interesting kit that may have worked better. A more deadly plot included hiding a capsule containing mustard gas in flowers to cause blindness among Nazi generals inside the German High Command Headquarters. Cigarettes laced with tetrahydrocannabinol acetate Indian hemp.

The compound works similarly to morphine and was used as a possible none-lethal incapacitating agent as part of the Edgewood Arsenal experiments. When given to someone, the cigarette would bring about uncontrollable chattiness. Knives concealed within shoes, lapels, pencils, sleeves and coins. During World War II, some US Army intelligence officials carried this canteen, which contained explosives in the lower portion of the container.

Within its hollow center was an explosive, and a camouflage kit was also provided to paint the lump in the exact color of the local coal. If unsuspecting enemy personnel were to toss it into a fire, the coal would detonate. Little is known about which agency developed this tool, which featured a working flashlight and functioning firearm.

Hollow coins are quite prevalent in espionage, offering clandestine storage for microdots and microfilm. The coin is opened by inserting a needle into a tiny hole on its face. This shoe was stolen from a US diplomat by the Romanian Secret Service and outfitted with a hidden microphone and transmitter.

Developed in West Germany, this tiny camera was situated on an agent's wrist and was capable of snapping eight photos. Since the camera didn't come equipped with a viewfinder, framing a good shot was quite a difficult task.