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Amazon’s indoor camera drone is ready to fly around your house
Next up: cameras. Amazon's crazy indoor, flying drone camera—the ambiguously named "Ring Always Home Cam"—is actually for sale now in the US. This was announced a full year ago, but now it's available "exclusively by invitation" for $249.99. This is a "Day 1 Edition" (read: a beta product). So Amazon isn't letting just anyone buy it. You can request an invitation to give Amazon money on the product page.
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(Score: 3, Interesting) by stretch611 on Wednesday September 29 2021, @06:04PM (4 children)
Wow, The always on recordiong audio of Alexa, combined with the always on video recording Ring Doorbell isn't enough.
They now want a robot monitoring you/your house (yesterday's article) and a personal drone.
And to top it all off... THEY CHARGE YOU for the privilege of removing all of your privacy.
Now with 5 covid vaccine shots/boosters altering my DNA :P
(Score: 4, Interesting) by DannyB on Wednesday September 29 2021, @07:12PM (3 children)
The Ring Doorbell is video recording OUTSIDE your home.
These new must have gadgets offer you the excitement of video recording INSIDE your home too! It's so good, people will want to pay for it.
It's not that you're giving up your privacy. It's that you're letting Amazon helpfully do more and gradually more of your thinking for you. Thus relieving the burden of having to think for yourself. Life is so much easier when a machine can tell you what to do next. Ask any Amazon warehouse worker.
The lower I set my standards the more accomplishments I have.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by stretch611 on Wednesday September 29 2021, @09:24PM (1 child)
While the Ring Doorbell only records outside, in many cases it does have your driveway in its recordings whuch means it can tell when you are leaving/returning too your house. Every little piece of surveillance adds to a better profile on you.
As for the Amazon Warehouse worker being told what to do by a machine, that job only lasts until it becomes cheaper for the machine to do it without the human.
Now with 5 covid vaccine shots/boosters altering my DNA :P
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 30 2021, @06:44PM
Jobs like that should be automated, the problem is that we haven't done anything to ensure that those displaced by technological advance will still have a decent lifestyle afterwards.
(Score: 2) by Fnord666 on Thursday September 30 2021, @10:07PM
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