Great Idea: Disposable Wireless Video
I just had the greatest product idea ever. I want a device that will receive wifi video camera transmissions in a large area. I also want disposable, or almost disposable cameras. The idea is that I can leave behind a small self-contained sticker-camera on some surface and monitor it (and others) from a central location–and just forget about it. This would be imminently usefull, for example, to watch my laundry while simultaneously doing homework.
If the “disposable video camera” idea were too expensive, then small, rechargeable stickies would do just as well, as long as you could deploy at least 4 of them at a time. Battery life, range, size, and cost are big factors. Resolution is not. I just want a system where I can deploy “watchers” to keep an eye on things for me. Does anything like this exist?
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on February 16th, 2005 at 3:27 am
Yea… the designers of Splinter Cell did :p
The receiver is no issue. I already can hook up my PDA via Wifi to my home webserver, which hosts up my webcam feeds. The issue here is the transmitter: wifi-embedded devices ain’t cheap. Its cheaper to buy a webcam + used computer + wifi adapter than it is to buy an independant wifi camera (Dlink make those).
So yes it exists. Just not cheaply. That said, monochromatic analog cameras transmitting over non-wifi radio bands can be cheap, but lacking wifi they defeat the purpose.