Motorola WiFi Video Camera for Remote Viewing
- Model: BLINK1-BLK, BLINK1-S
- Obviously made to be a baby monitor, but works fine as a normal IP camera
- Viewable through any smartphone, tablet, or PC with the free app
- Pan, tilt, zoom remotely, to realize your artistic vision like a film auteur
- Infrared night vision to catch all those owls and wolves prowling baby’s room
- Two-way communication so you can make your baby listen to you cry for a change and see how they like it
- Connect up to four cameras to the same system, for true paranoiacs
- Purchase limit 4
Godlike power! Now 65% off!
OK, look, we’ve mostly gotten control over our urge to quote Louis CK all the time. But today we can’t resist: “The shittiest cellphone in the world is a miracle.”. So is a routine airline flight: “You’re sitting on a chair in the sky!” And, we would add, so is a decent Wi-Fi camera like this. Think about it.
You can watch over your child not just from his or her bedside, not even just from anywhere in your house, but from anywhere in the world, even from that coach-class chariot soaring through the clouds. Your all-seeing eye can pan, tilt, and zoom. You can see all this even in complete darkness. You can hear your baby sigh through walls, over mountains, across oceans. You can sing your baby a lullaby from the other side of the planet, or play it one of four lullabies pre-loaded in the camera. You can put up to four of these mystical super-eyes-and-ears in the same room.
As Louis CK said, “You’re like a Greek myth right now.”
Usually, with great power comes great responsibility. In this case, that means… taking a few minutes to download an app. Registering the camera with Motorola so you can make sure the firmware stays updated. Going through a one-time setup process that might go “weird for a second” (Louis CK’s words again). Oh, yeah, and changing the damn default password, even though strangers don’t really want to look at your kids any more than your Facebook friends do.
If that ordeal is simply too much for you to endure in exchange for an invisible 10,000-mile telescope, you probably shouldn’t buy this. Or fly on a plane. Or use a cellphone. Or leave the house.
