| Your micro video camera can be used for | | | | joker. Just remember that your practical jokes |
| recreational purposes, too! Just because it is used | | | | must never endanger the lives of the targets; go |
| for monitoring nannies and employees, cheating | | | | easy on scare jokes for old people, weights falling |
| husbands and erring children, cops and robbers, | | | | down on heads, and other potentially fatal pranks. |
| does not necessarily mean that it cannot be used | | | | You can position the hidden camera in a strategic |
| for good, clean fun, too! Here is how. | | | | place - opposite the doorway when the joke |
| Remote Controlled Toys | | | | involves door pranks like stacking up books to |
| If you attach a micro video camera to a remote | | | | block the entryway, up above the ceiling for |
| controlled toy, you will get a feeling akin to playing | | | | better coverage, inside the bathroom for |
| a racing video game. The only visible difference is | | | | monsters-popping-up-on-the-toilet-seat pranks, and |
| that instead of virtual landscapes, you will be | | | | other places you deem good for capturing the |
| navigating real terrain. | | | | action. Again, be mindful of privacy issues. |
| You can attach a micro video camera to the nose | | | | Voyeuristic Tendencies |
| of your toy helicopter or plane and watch your | | | | This is an extreme in recreational purposes for a |
| neighborhood park and your yard from a totally | | | | micro video camera. You are endangering your |
| different perspective! You can control the toy to | | | | freedom in exchange for satisfying your sexual |
| zoom around the neighborhood just so you can | | | | kicks. Then again, America has always been about |
| get to know the layout more. Just be very | | | | "each to his own", right? |
| careful that you do not exceed the limits on | | | | There a few things you need to remember on |
| objective expectation of privacy and other laws | | | | voyeurism. You are invading the privacy of the |
| lest you find yourself in a totally different | | | | individuals you are videotaping without their |
| neighborhood, otherwise known as the jailhouse. | | | | consent. As such, you can be prosecuted and |
| As to your toy car, you can also attach the | | | | jailed for violating the laws. You might be able to |
| micro video camera inside it. Watch how grass | | | | hide pinhole cameras to become a high-tech |
| looks from an ant's point of view, almost like | | | | peeping Tom but only under the cloud of a felony |
| being in the "Honey, I Shrunk the Kids" movie! | | | | (and more than 12 years of prison time for some |
| You never know when you can use the footage | | | | crimes) hanging over your head. |
| for your very own "shrinking" home movie, right? | | | | Is it not better to play with toys and jokes than |
| You should look for a camera that can be plugged | | | | with privacy issues? The next time you think of |
| into the receiver as power source or a camera | | | | using your pinhole cameras for recreation, try to |
| that can be used with a Y splitter. The idea is that | | | | stay within the confines of decency and of the |
| your tiny camera will operate on the same | | | | law. |
| battery as that of the toy vehicle. | | | | Who says your pinhole nanny camera, especially |
| Practical Jokes | | | | the wireless nanny camera, can only be used for |
| If you are a fan of gag shows like "Candid | | | | altruistic purposes? Use your micro video camera |
| Camera", a micro video camera is the right tool | | | | to have fun, too, and visit today! |
| to get you started on a career as a practical | | | | |