OK, so I was a dork to order this. It really has no purpose in real (normal) life. But for those of you that know me, it is common knowledge that I have never been truly normal. I just thought, “cool, just like James Bond” and ordered it. At around $60 my spy watch video camera with 8 gigs of storage is as much fun (legal fun) as you can get for $60.

When I took it out of the package it came in a tin box with a clear-plastic window, like some expensive watches. Inside was the watch, an AC adapter, the USB cable and a booklet. The booklet contained print so tiny that almost a microscope is needed to read the little words. There is very little documentation and what there is is written in a form of translo-english commonly being printed in China. But, I commonly never read the manual to anything anyway. Where’s the fun? Anyone can read a manual, it takes an adventurous type to just pick up the chainsaw with helmet attachment and just start it up and put it on.

So I played around with it for about 20 minutes…  then I read the manual.

Pressing the video button for 3 seconds makes the LED blink in green signalling the start of video recording. Pressing the button again and “holding long” as the manual states, will make the LED blink red and signal the stop of video recording. The 8GB onboard memory is large enough to hold more than 12 hours of video with audio. But the battery will only last 2 hours on a full charge.

I strapped on the watch. It was large like many of today’s stylish watches. My trendy friend Corey was wearing just such a large watch a few weeks ago when we had lunch, so I felt like I could get away with wearing it. It was not ridiculous large. It was just bigger then a normal watch.

 Nobody noticed. It was a watch that attracted no attention. I made a number of recordings. It is waaay cool. The video quality looks much better than the specs. It is supposed to be 352 by 288 and only 15 frames per second. But it looked clear and the audio was amazing. The picture was recorded in .AVI on the internal memory. To access the video I plugged the USB cable into the watch first and then into my PC. It was immediately recognized on my windows XP desktop, my XP laptop, my Vista Home Premium desktop and my Mac Pro. The files appeared as a flash drive or thumbdrive.

.AVI files can be emailed, posted on websites and edited by most video editing software. They play on most integrated video players.

I have to admit there is little legit business application, but I came up with some good reasons to wear it "in case".Here they are:Bad cop - now you know I used to be a cop way back in the stone age, so I have nothing against cops. But in today's world of fake cops, nutty cops and cops with bad manners, this watch would be the perfect way to record their antics. Forget legal action, post them on YouTube and let the world tear them a new a_hole.Celebrity footage - Doesn't TMZ buy everything? Imagine you see two big celebrities kissing each other naked standing on a pizza with a feather in their butts... now THATS news! You got your camera and you'll be sure to get the price of this dandy thing by selling footage like that.Nasty flight attendant - I've had a few of these bitches and I can tell you right now, the next time I will use my super handy video watch to video her snarling at me in flight. Then I can prove to customer service that they should give me a first class upgrade.