Japanese voyeurism has just got an upgrade in the form of Thanko’s video recording button spy cam version 2. The tiny camera was built into a button that could be attached to an article of clothing and while nonchalantly posing as just that could record video of your surrounding. Up until now, the device was designed to record video and with version two a microphone has been added to provide audio as well. This tiny ‘camcorder’ can record video in AVI at a resolution of 720 x 480 and at 30fps for up to 70 minutes thanks to the inbuilt lithium-ion battery. It can also capture images in a 1,280 x 1,024 sized resolution. All of this data can only be captured on microSD card as it has no internal memory. What did you expect?

Thanko has also done away with the remote control features so you’ll have to manually operate the device. Version two of the Spy Button Camera is being sold on their Japanese website and priced at about $55 which includes six buttons.

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