In movies like Mission Impossible and James Bond flicks, they always have ridiculously small cameras.  Well, that’s not just Hollywood — there really are tiny cameras like that.

Take, for example, the pinhole camera.  This is an unbelievably small camera — small enough that someone could wear it in their lapel as an undercover spy camera.  It can also be mounted and used as a security camera.  What a great idea!  I mean, come on, how effective is a hidden camera if it’s big enough for everyone to spot it right off the bat?

So if cameras can be made this little, just like in the movies, I wonder if any of the other spy equipment and explosives that you see in these types of movies are real too?

For instance, wasn’t there some type of explosive in one movie that looked a stick of chewing gum?  You smashed it together, applied it to a door lock or whatever, and stood back — and boom!  Then there were the tooth microphones in Charlie’s Angels — talk about a hands free headset!

That’s part of the fun of spy movies, though — they have all kinds of super cool “toys” like that.  I guess most of them would have to be at least based in reality — like the pinhole camera — but it probably wouldn’t be as cool if they were completely realistic!

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