For our project we came up with a microphone that you can cast much like a fishing rod. It allows the user to have acess to hearing things that are far away. At the bottom of the eavesdropping stick there is a headphone jack that you can use to listen to what people are saying. At the end of the stick there is a small microphone that can be easily thrown that picks up sound. When we first started we didn't have a spool, but then we thought that we needed a way to retract the microphone so you can see in our first attempt that there is a mircophone attached. We also made the tape black because we felt that it would make it less visibl than the blue that we initially used.