Smartphone applications joined with certain toys give you access to spy on people in close range. This idea is not new, but none have been this small or this cheap before.

Remote-control specialists, Interactive Toy Concepts, have come up with two great spying toys. The ‘Wi-Spi Helicopter’ and the ‘Intruder’ are both controlled from an app on your smartphone via wi-fi. The Wi-Spi can send videos and still pictures to the smartphone instantaneously.

Intruder sends recorded video with sounds.The down fall is that since the are working on wi-fi this gives them a short distance to work with. The cool new gadget “toys” can also record and rapidly upload video to your favorite social media sites.

You can expect to see Wi-Spi and Intruder this fall, maybe under the next Christmas tree.