10 Real-Life Gadgets That Will Make You In To A Proper Spy

10. The Shrub Rover

The Terrestrial Shrub Rover will enable you to nose in on any evil conversations that are taking place in beautifully tended formal gardens, so that's handy.

This solar-powered vehicle is inconspicuously disguised as a bit of common topiary, meaning that you can simply park it in a decorative border and listen in from the comfort of your shrub.

According to its creator, artist Justin Shull, the shrub-mobile will be most useful for inconspicuous social exploration (otherwise known as eavesdropping) and was inspired by the human race's latest efforts in space exploration.

Shull says: “In the spirit of NASA and its forthcoming 2020 lunar expeditions in preparation for colonizing the moon, the Terrestrial Shrub Rover presents the opportunity to explore terrestrial and social environments back on Earth from within a manned, foliage bedecked, solar electric powered rover.”

We'd like to think he was being ironic, but he is an artist, so perhaps not.