2-for-Tuesday: Stem Izon View Wi-Fi Video Monitors
Our Take
- You get a pair of WiFi-enabled video cameras that don’t look half bad neither- Night vision for hot cam-on-room action all night long- See the video, record the video, and get alerts about the video on your phone- Sound and motion detection because pretty much everything you’d want to detect moves or makes noise or both- Model: WRM-BA3-00 (oh, man, with those gratuitous "-00"s it’s like they’re trolling us… WHY? WHY??)
What price night vision?
Let’s say somebody offered you the ability to see in the dark - and all it would cost you was an extra fourteen bucks. You’d probably take them up on that, right?Or, OK, more realistically: given the choice between two products, one of which worked 50% more of the time than the other for an extra $14, chances are you’d consider that a price worth paying.That’s sort of what’s going on here, minus the invasive optical surgery. We’ve sold two different Stem Izon video monitors: one with night vision (here it is again today), and one without (we’re all out of that one). Otherwise, they’re pretty similar. Same WiFi capability, same sound and motion detection, wrapped in the same hipesque Nest/Apple-style chassis. It’s just that this one is useful for an extra ~8 hours a day.You guys have liked the cheaper one better. But as we said, the cupboard is bare, cheaper-one-wise. We’re stuck with the much more useful one. So here’s what let’s do:Last time the night-blind cheapos were $44 per pair. We’re gonna drop the price on the superior night-vision ones from $64 to $58. That price gap shakes out to seven bucks per camera, less than a dollar per hour of additional daily functionality. (And, by the by, still way cheaper than you can buy the non-night-vision ones elsewhere.)Maybe it doesn’t matter. Maybe you think nothing much worth seeing happens at night anyway. Maybe you think FREAKING SEEING IN THE FREAKING DARK isn’t worth the extra cost. If so, we’d love to see what you’d rather spend fourteen dollars on.