HD 1080P Hidden Camera Spy Pen Camera. Real HD Video, Voice with Updated Battery. Executive Multifunction DVR. Plug and Play (Silver&Black)

I do love to mess around with video and have tried a couple of similar devices, but this is the first that actually looks, feels and works like a pen and records in very high quality video. Arriving in a decent presentation box (it would make a nice gift) the pen is in two parts, the lower section containing an ink nib (five spares are included) and the upper the camera. The usb plug sticks out from this top section, and a MicroSD memory card slots in to the side of the plug. I initially tried this with my 65Gb Toshiba card with no joy, but a Sandisk 32Gb worked fine. Putting in a card that won't work, or is miss-formatted and the LED flashes ten times to warn you, a nice feature. Inside is a slider that switches from Video to stills/audio, I left this on the video setting. It records in 1080P and I have to say that for a tiny lens the quality is outstanding. To operate you have to press and hold the top button for a few seconds, recording starts and continues until you press it again. In a test recording a 10 second clip was 42Mb, so my 32Gb card will take around two hours of video before filling. Quoted battery life is up to an hour. The lens is situated just above the pocket clip so this probably works best when used with a suit, with the pen in the outside pocket. For covert video recording, this is ideal, and would make a great gift for kids too. I'd be a little wary when using the bathroom though, if the dressing gown on the back of the door happened to have a pen in its pocket... Great quality at a good price. (Attached video is saved in 720P to reduce the size)

Didn't work when I first put a memory card in it. Thought it might just need formatting but still didn't work in the end I couldn't be arsed with the hassle of sending it back so I took it apart and repaired it. The picture and sound quality is pretty good really for the money. Battery life is a bit pants. It has niggles but once you've worked out how to get round them it's an ok product I suppose. Maybe mine was a one off but I hate it when stuff doesn't work as it should. It's Chinese so I don't think the quality control is up to british standards and the instructions are just an amusement if anything.

An update - I originally gave this product 1 star (see below) but am now changing to 4. I did send the original back and ordered another one from the same vendor. I received the product today and discovered why I could not get the first one to work - my micro SD card was NTFS formatted instead of FAT 32. Frankly, this should be made very clear in the documentation but is not mentioned anywhere. I had to watch several YouTube videos to discover that I needed the FAT 32 format in order to initialize the drive. That said, the videos are excellent for such a small device. I'm pretty amazed, at this point, even though I have not put the product "through its paces." It certainly has great potential. With much better documentation it might deserve 5 stars. I recently purchased this product and am sending it back as it does not work as advertised. The documentation is quite poorly written and designed but can be figured out with some patience. I charged the device, inserted a 16gb micro SD card and pushed down the button on the top of the device. In order to get any light (according to the instructions there is a yellow and blue light) to come on I must push down the button for at least 3 seconds. At this point a blue light comes on and flashes exactly 10 times. There is no evidence that anything works after this point. I have tried every "permutation and combination" in terms of pressing this top button (and the small switch inside selecting between camera and video) to no avail. I have tried inserting the SD card 3 different times. The reason I selected the vendor for this product is because of the 4 1/2 stars. Regrettably, I can't add to that.

It works well when you can operate the buttons correctly. I have found the operation of buttons confusing as you are never sure whether it is recording video or audio.

Although it is a little weighty ( no more than an expensive decorative pen ) , it is pretty easy to use. The pen function writes really well and it is very handy that it comes with refills. It records well, the sound is clear and crisp and the photos are as if I'd taken the snap with an IPhone. Very happy with this pen so far .

Avoid this item, Mine was defective (as far as I can tell), and it didn't even look like some of the photos that other customers uploaded. I got a 64GB card which I tried to hook in to it and it didn't work (even after formatting it FAT32 as one of the other reviewers suggested). I thought it might be my card, so I purchased another one 32GB FAT32 and that didn't work as well. The pen failed to recognize any card! The instructions are very poor and I had to go to youtube to figure out where to insert the card and how to remove it (how far does it need to be in). Needless to say that the guy who translated the instruction must be super-retarded cause that's not English!! Honestly, I didn't even bother requesting a replacement and will get my money back and try a different product. Oh, and the 2 stars are for the design cause you can hardly see the camera (unlike other products on Amazon which you can easily spot the camera on), oh and the fact that I might've just been unlucky and got a defective product! Update: I return the product and purchased the Prweyn product which actually worked!, moreover, you pay less for it and you get 2 card usb readers and 2 USB extension cables, along with a more comprehensible instructions (rather than a stupid translation of god knows what kinda language the original ones were). There are quite a few negative reviews for these kinda products which I think due to the high likelihood of getting a defective product. But tbh, if it works, it will be well worth the money. The Prweyn product looks exactly the same as this one, it produces genuine 1080 quality and read my card right away. I am pretty sure that people who gave this product 5 stars did actually get a working one, I might've been just one of the unlucky ones, but I would still recommend Prweyn pen since you get more stuff and better instruction and boxing as well.

I had high hopes for this item given the good reviews, though just want to emphasize what others already are saying that many 5 star reviews I speculate could be dishonest. As from my experience the item did not work after charging with both 8gb and 16gb sc cards - which I figured out how to use (insert with metal parts face up/outside to the pen's circular body edge) - but nothing was recorded. Also a few other similar product reviews highlighted that the item may not last for more than a few month which cemented my decision to return. If it did work then I definitely think it's excellent value for money but sadly it did not...Should really have checked the negative reviews first before making my choice. Very disappointed overall.

Fun item, but no USB cable supplied as promised.