3-Pack: Lynx 1080p Security Cameras with Facial Recognition
- You get 3 Lynx Cameras that can recognize faces.
- I mean, they don’t recognize faces right out of the box. That would be super creepy.
- Get check-ins when familiar faces show up at your door and alerts when unfamiliar faces show up instantly on your phone.
- Halloween is probably a very strange time for this camera.
- Oh, the other stuff: you got your high quality video night and day; you got your cloud storage that holds on to the last 7 days for free; and you’ve got a super easy Bluetooth setup.
- These are sort of Lynx v1.5, they have new wifi chips to fix some of the original connectivity issues.
- All these cameras we sell claim to be easy to set up. Would be cool if one of them was just like: “Nah, you’ve gotta earn this, bub.”
- Model: TS0020, because you can wag your finger and say “ts, ts, ts,” whenever someone shows up who’s not supposed to be there.
Can't Be Keat
Stars: 4
Overview: Very good, but not as good as Michael Keaton!!!
Before I get into my review, I want to give you a little bit of background: I’m a huge Michael Keaton fan and a software developer. Recently, I sold my start-up to a large tech conglomerate for several million dollars. I used that money to build a bunker inside an abandoned warehouse where I would live and wait for Michael Keaton to arrive so I can ask him a few continuity-related questions about his seminal 1996 comedy, Multiplicity, for my podcast: The Podkeast. I won’t list the questions here because I am certain they’ve never been asked and I want to be sure I’m the ones who asks them (more on this below, when I get into the complaints).
I need peace in my bunker to record episodes of The Podkeast and also to meditate and prepare myself for the eventual interview. Luckily, it’s soundproof. That brought up another issue, though: if I can’t hear anything, how will I know when Mike (that’s what I call him in my head sometimes) has arrived?
That’s where The Lynx 1080P Camera comes in! The quality’s great, they’re easy to set up, there’s free cloud storage, and most importantly, it has facial recognition. Using photos, I trained mine to only recognize one face: Michael Keaton’s. Thus, I’ll get a check-in notification whenever he arrives (fingers crossed, any day now!). Any other unfamiliar face alerts that come through I just ignore, because like I said, I don’t need the distractions.
I should say: I do have two complaints. One is that the Lynx recognizes faces really well, but not always the material said faces are made of. What I’m getting at is that my mom keeps showing up in a really realistic Michael Keaton mask (she probably bought it with the start-up money I gave her, ugh!). She always says the same thing: that she’s worried I might be losing my mind. It makes me want to scream. Like, of course I’m losing my mind! I got a check-in notification and thought Michael Friggin’ Keaton was here! And sometimes I do scream. Hey, it’s a sound-proof bunker, gotta get your money’s worth, right?
The other complaint I have is that Michael Keaton has not shown up to do the interview with me. This is probably more a don’t-have-Michael-Keaton’s-contact-info problem than a Lynx problem, but still: with that AND the mask issue, I didn’t feel right giving it five stars.
Overall, though, a very good camera!