Minox is best known for their quality cameras, and uniquely for those mini espionage shooters immortalized by WWII spies.

ENGADGET: Minox DMP-2 media player and MPEG-4 recorder

In the mid-1980s Gregory Bridgeford , now a Lowe's senior vice president, was told to go to all the new Depot openings with a tiny Minox camera and put together a two-hour presentation for Lowe's brass detailing how Depot was better at merchandising.

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