I never believed that those bowl-shaped spy listening devices worked until I actually had the chance to play with one.  A friend had one a while back and we spent an entire afternoon listening to neighbors’ conversations.  I learned that some people are really, really boring.

Anyway, I wouldn’t mind having my own spy listening device so I could go out in search of more interesting people.  It would be a lot of fun to go up to the cliffs where people hike and see what I could overhear from couples taking walks.  Yeah, I’m sick like that.

The Orbitor Spy Listening Device looks like a pretty close approximation to the gadget my friend had, complete with the satellite-dish looking gun thing and the heavy-duty headphones (this is great, because as you’re intently listening to someone else, it makes it very easy for people to sneak up on you and scare you half to death).  At $70, it seems like a pretty reasonable deal as far as spy listening devices are concerned - not cheap enough that it would probably suck, but yet not too expensive for something so frivolous.

The manufacturer says that the Orbiter Spy Listening Device can hear sounds up to 300 feet away and it comes with a Viewfinder that can zoom in so you can see the people you’re spying on.  They suggest using it to hear athletes at games or animals in nature, but I say they have no imagination (or they have lawyers that won’t let them suggest more fun uses).   It also has a playback feature so you can record up to 120 seconds of the stuff that’s actually worth overhearing.

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