LONDON: Is your evening teatime at home getting delayed as your wife has recently started coming late from office, citing work pressure?


Well, if you suspect that your better half is having an affair with one of her colleagues, but you want to be sure before confronting her -- there's no need to hire detectives. It's now easy to spy on her, all you need are latest gizmos.

From pens with cameras to snooping widgets that tap into mobile phones, there are now devices that could do almost everything, 'The Sunday Times' reported.

Among the more flamboyant options are the "spy kite" -- a not terribly subtle craft that can fly to a height of up to 80ft, usually employed to peer over garden fences; a brooch with an inbuilt video recorder; and an air freshener aero-sol that captures images and sound.

Other options include a "nanny cam", a Winnie-the-Pooh alarm clock that transmits CCTV; and a camera that's disguised as a tin opener -- you know, just in case there's any untoward kitchen sex going on, according to scientists.

Now, the latest bug uses GSM technology, so one can phone it from anywhere in the world and listen in without contravening any communications laws.

One can also go for a less high-tech bug that can be hidden in a wall clock, a spectacle case, a picture frame or, if one's really cruel, a basket of potpourri. And, once it's planted, one can dial its mobile phone number and suddenly one is in the room.

It's just like talking to someone on hands-free except one's not talking -- one's listening. Or, go for a car tracker which follows the vehicle anywhere in the world and programme it to alert you if it travels a certain distance from home, the scientists said.

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