Brookstone Sells Wi-Fi Enabled Cufflinks for $250

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By Tuan Mai
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The perfect gadget for the stylish techie!

Secret gadgets and gismos have always been an interest for men since the adventures of James Bond have been popularized in books and movies. Keeping secrets secret while keeping stylish harkens to Ian Fleming’s hero, and what better way to do so than by keeping your secrets at your hands? The Polished Oval WiFi/2GB USB cufflinks allow you to keep those secrets inconspicuously right at the flick of your wrist.

One cufflink breaks off at the rear and provides a safe hiding place for up to 2GB of data. Need to smuggle out account data for some espionage? They have a way of getting you in and out without setting off alarms. Need to take something back from the office to work at home? You’re covered there too. For those on the go trips, the other cuff link can provide a Wi-Fi signal.

Of course, it also works great if you need to upload that illicit account data to your remote secure server back at MI:6. All while looking as fresh as a shaken not stirred martini. If you're in the mood for some espionage, and have the dough for it head on over to Brookstone to grab your own for a hefty $249.

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Tuan Mai
Tuan Mai
Tuan Mai is a Los Angeles based writer and marketing manager working within the PC Hardware industry. He has written for Tom's Guide since 2010, with a special interest in the weird and quirky.
17 Comments Comment from the forums
  • benji720
    $250 for 2GB? I'd rather get cheap cufflinks at ross and tape a flash drive to my leg or something.
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  • CaedenV
    while this is cool... I am a little confused about the wifi part of this. I mean, is James Bond smuggeling a large desktop into a high security area, only to realize that the place he is setting up has no ethernet available? So he slyly uses one of his cuff links rather than just installing a wifi card in the computer to begin with?
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  • memadmax
    I'm not buying those unless I can shoot heat seeking missiles from them!

    =D
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  • victorious 3930k
    My pants are full of wet.
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  • Blessedman
    I too am confused about the wifi cuff...
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  • wildwell
    The 2GB storage is obvious; is the other cufflink a usb wifi adapter?
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  • glurg
    wifi cufflink is awkward...like Caeden said are you lugging a desktop around without a wifi card?
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  • Vorador2
    It would make much more sense if the storage part was actually a microsd usb adapter with added encryption ( for the spy part :-P ). You would be able to replace the measly 2Gb with 64 Gb easily, or change storage on the go.

    Still way too pricey.
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  • The wifi scenario is: you're targeting a desktop to which you have physical access, but which has only wired networking. You are carrying the cufflink and. of course, your smartphone. (In this case, probably an Android or a heavily jailbroken iPhone, not a standard issue iPhone). You have full control over the computer and the encryption is broken, but you need to get a continuing data stream out of it. So you make it wifi enabled (and give it a hidden-SSID accesspoint setup) and leave the smartphone somewhere in range where it can store whatever comes out of the keylogger you have planted. At the end of the diplomatic party, you stroll out with the smartphone, leaving the wifi adapter in place for the next time you're nearby.
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  • CaedenV
    JRJ79The wifi scenario is: you're targeting a desktop to which you have physical access, but which has only wired networking. You are carrying the cufflink and. of course, your smartphone. (In this case, probably an Android or a heavily jailbroken iPhone, not a standard issue iPhone). You have full control over the computer and the encryption is broken, but you need to get a continuing data stream out of it. So you make it wifi enabled (and give it a hidden-SSID accesspoint setup) and leave the smartphone somewhere in range where it can store whatever comes out of the keylogger you have planted. At the end of the diplomatic party, you stroll out with the smartphone, leaving the wifi adapter in place for the next time you're nearby.Ah Ha! Thanks for clearing that up.

    Wouldn't a Bluetooth be a simpler or at least more useful solution?
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