This camera mounted inside a lighbulb seems to only be taking a knocking, but I can see a use for it. It's being show at CES, and fits in a lightbulb socket but is a streaming video camera. Criticisms are that it is contributing to the surveillance state and would be too easy for a burglar to circumvent, but it's all about how it's used. It's not right to just replace all your lightbulbs in your house, monitor every room every time (oh, except if someone hits the light switch then it shuts down). It's for a place like a shared hallway, where you might want to mount a camera but don't want to / can't run extra cables. It would be for a slightly inaccessible place. I'm thinking of the hallway outside our flat for example, though I don't know what the neighbours would have thought.
It's the kind of thing I often want, a "thing" in a room, wether it's environmental sensors, camera, speaker etc, but I don't want a trailing wire, I always think that little socket that's dangling up there anyway is ripe for reuse. Generally other devices are a bit too big to be hanging in the middle of a normal sized room though. This one is not for me but I'm not as opposed to it as other commentators seem to be.
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