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In the days of the Cold War, espionage was a big deal. This was back when spy bots didn’t exist and spies relied on obtaining information personally. If you weren’t a spy, you might as well have swallowed cyanide because during the Cold War everyone was a spy. That’s why Brian Dereu wants to cash in on spy-wannabes everywhere. He’s started a new business selling hollow spy coins for 20 bucks a pop.

It’s a coin that’s been hollowed out so you can covertly transport secret messages, suicide poisons, microfilms and maybe even drugs. Hell, if you’re dropping a twenty dollar bill on nothing more than a coin, you’ll have to do some smuggling with it to make up for your loss.

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So how do you do what the title says? You just have to turn this little thing on, hold it in your hand, ask your friend the question, have them give you a real answer, and this baby will let you know if you should find new friends. This sounds like such a cool product, until the novelty wears off and you are stuck with a lie detector and negative $40. Also, you will have to move to a different state because every who knows you will now avoid you because they are afraid of the fact that you might be testing their every word. People allow a little slack sometimes. Looking past the problems of this device, it does have some practical applications. Maybe the police could make use of it to test if someone they pull over is telling the truth, but we already have other tests for stuff like drunkenness or being drugged up. Last minute note: you won’t be able to surprise anyone with the lie detector because they have to say three truths first. So much for the friend and girlfriend idea… — Nik Gomez

DeFIBulator Lie Detector [via Gearlog]