If you'd studied a bit more and gone out on the raz a bit less during your five years at Spy College, you wouldn't be in this position. All those swots and teachers' pets got great jobs with the Americans or the French. You wound up at the bottom of the espionage barrel, spying for clapped out former Soviet republics.
Using your silky social skills you've talked your way into the nerve-centre of the Ballymena Chamber of Commerce - now the deputy vice-chairman has left the room for a minute, and you whip out your spy document camera.
But it is way too cumbersome, makes too noisy a click, needs too much light - it's a piece of Cold War junk. Those footsteps are getting louder; you can't snap the pictures off quickly enough, you're going to be caught!
If only you had been wearing the Casio Wrist Camera. This looks and acts like a watch, but point it at a subject and it takes a small, black-and-white electronic picture. It can store up to 100 images, you can view them instantly and delete the ones you don't want. After you record an image you can put up to 24 characters of text onto the picture. You can also transfer them to other devices using infra-red.
The Casio Wrist Camera Watch, around £180 (€228), is available in electronics stores and from online retailers. Become a top gizmo source: Smaccarthaigh@irish-time.ie
