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* Cigarette cases (in the '60s at least)
* Lighters
* [[Tricked
* [[Briefcase Blaster|Briefcases]]
* Umbrellas
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* Seen in ''[[Iron Man 2]]'' when Whiplash escapes from prison with the help of someone sending him plastic explosives that look like his normal cafeteria food.
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* ''[[Undercover Brother]]''. The title character has two pairs of [[Tricked
* In ''[[Doctor Strangelove]]'', a general accuses the Russian ambassador of trying to take pictures of the [[War Room]] using a camera disguised as a pack of cigarettes. The ambassador claims that the spy camera was planted. It turns out that the ambassador was telling the truth - ''his'' spy camera was disguised as his pocketwatch (Unless you believe that the ambassador brought two hidden cameras with him).
* Used (like just about every other spy trope) in the Leslie Nielson film ''[[Spy Hard]]''.
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* ''[[Ultraman]]'' went one better with the Science Patrol having a standard communicator pin that was even ''smaller'' than the type in ''[[Star Trek the Next Generation]]''. All the agents have to do is pull up a tiny antenna to activate it and send a message.
* [[Stephen Colbert]] once had a shoe phone on ''[[The Colbert Report]]''. It was just a telephone receiver glued to the bottom of a shoe, complete with trailing cord. "Just looking at it, you wouldn't know it was a phone! ... And just wearing it, [http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/156748/february-28-2008/cold-war-update you wouldn't know it was a shoe]."
** And in another [[The Great Politics Mess
* In ''[[Kamen Rider Kiva]]'', it's revealed that the IXA Riser used to access IXA's [[Super Mode]] was, in fact, his mouthpiece the whole time.
* Almost all the weapons used by the Riders in ''[[Kamen Rider Faiz]]'' resemble ordinary objects like cellphones or cameras.
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* ''[[MI High]]'' has communicator pencils and various 'gadgets of the week' that are invariably disguised as innocuous pieces of school paraphenalia.
* In the original live action version of ''[[Johnny Sokko and His Flying Robot]]/[[Giant Robo]]'', Johnny gave orders to the titular robot via a communicator hidden in his wristwatch.
* Darnell from ''[[My Name Is Earl]]'' has been shown to have several pieces of his hair turn out to be phones - they [[This Page Will Self
* ''[[Chuck]]'' has a phone in his wristwatch. He keeps on expecting other gadgets to have hidden uses, but they never do.
* In the ''[[Monty Python's Flying Circus]]'' sketch "The Bishop", the Bishop has a phone embedded in his crosier<ref>(that is, his staff of bishopishness)</ref>.
* In ''[[The Sarah Jane Adventures (TV)|The Sarah Jane Adventures]]'', Sarah Jane Smith carried a sonic device similar to [[Doctor Who
* ''[[The Prisoner]]'' episode "The Girl Who Was Death" shows Potter, one of Number 6's fellow spies, undercover as a shoe-shine man. He communicates with HQ via a phone disguised as a polishing brush. ''Almost'' a literal [[Shoe Phone]].
* The game song styles on ''[[Whose Line Is It Anyway? (TV)|Whose Line Is It Anyway]]'' gives us the aptly titled [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FpVd_IRTRug&t=2m51s My Shoe Is A Phone].
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** Also lampshaded during a discussion between Snake and Major Zero about James Bond, in which Snake comments that (for example) a gun-pen would make him look stupid in the jungle, at which point Zero insists they could build him a gun shaped like a snake, that "folds up into an attache case." In which Snake then replied that it was even sillier (then Zero gets upset at Snake for "Bashing" Bond).
* ''[[Perfect Dark]]'' has a laptop that can turn into a machine gun and a heat-seeking, wall-sticking turret gun. Apparently it has basic computer functions, too.
* ''007: Agent Under Fire'' has a cell phone that also comes with a [[Frickin' Laser Beams|laser]], a password cracker, a switch activator, and a grapple hook that can somehow extend for 10 meters or more. In ''Goldeneye'', Bond's wristwatch serves as the game menu and health/armor indicator and contains a built-in magnet and laser that are used to get out of certain level-specific [[Death Trap|death traps]] in a [[Shout
* ''[[Splinter Cell]]'' has Sam's wristwatch. Dear God, what '''can't''' it do? It can hack computers, disarm bombs, pick locks, scan eyeballs, get fingerprints from a surface, playback voices for getting into voice-locks, show a map with the locations of bad guys, and operate as a standalone computer for storing files and the like. ''In a goddamn watch.'' Granted, you ''are'' the [[The Ace|best spy the NSA has.]]
* These compose [[Ratchet and Clank|Clank's]] armaments in ''[[Secret Agent Clank (Video Game)|Secret Agent Clank]]'', including shuriken bowties, an umbrella that shoots electricity, and a briefcase/flamethrower, to name a few.
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* [http://www.darkroastedblend.com/2009/05/real-life-spy-gadgets.html Everything on this page]. [http://www.darkroastedblend.com/2008/02/miniature-spy-guns.html This one too.]
* Back in the 60s, the KGB really did have a radio transmitter that fit in the heel of a shoe.
* Also back in the 60s, the CIA reportedly went to elaborate lengths to fit a microphone and a radio inside a... [
* While it will probably become mainstream pretty quickly, for now most people will assume you are insane when they say you talking to your watch, and will be amazed to realize [http://www.samsunghub.com/2009/07/22/samsung-unveils-worlds-thinnest-watchphone-s9110/ it's actually] [http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/16/lg-gd910-watch-phone-review/ a phone].
* [http://www.beststungun.com/cell-phone-stun-gun.html A taser that looks like a cell phone].
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