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Google is moving quickly to establish a foothold in your home: After acquiring Nest Labs and its smart thermostat and smoke detector, Google is now acquiring Dropcam — a startup that makes cloud-based security cameras for your home — for $555 million in cash. Dropcam has never announced its sales figures, but its cameras have routinely been top-sellers on Amazon since their launch in 2012. The question now, of course, is whether people will be comfortable giving Google a potential pervasive peephole into their homes, rather than a small, innocuous startup taking a gander.
Dropcam sells two cameras — the Dropcam for $150 and Dropcam Pro for $200 — that both constantly upload a video feed to the cloud. For $100 per year, Dropcam stores the last seven days of footage in the cloud for you to peruse at any time; for $300 per year, the last 30 days are stored. The playback is through a rather neat web interface, so you can check the footage from almost any device. You can also watch live. As you can see on the Dropcam demo website, these cameras capture at high resolution and 30 fps; this isn’t some grainy, time-lapse thing.
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Google is moving quickly to establish a foothold in your home: After acquiring Nest Labs and its smart thermostat and smoke detector, Google is now acquiring Dropcam — a startup that makes cloud-based security cameras for your home — for $555 million in cash. Dropcam has never announced its sales figures, but its cameras have routinely been top-sellers on Amazon since their launch in 2012. The question now, of course, is whether people will be comfortable giving Google a potential pervasive peephole into their homes, rather than a small, innocuous startup taking a gander.
Dropcam sells two cameras — the Dropcam for $150 and Dropcam Pro for $200 — that both constantly upload a video feed to the cloud. For $100 per year, Dropcam stores the last seven days of footage in the cloud for you to peruse at any time; for $300 per year, the last 30 days are stored. The playback is through a rather neat web interface, so you can check the footage from almost any device. You can also watch live. As you can see on the Dropcam demo website, these cameras capture at high resolution and 30 fps; this isn’t some grainy, time-lapse thing.
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