The Ring Always Home Drone: A Ridiculous Way for Amazon to Map Your House
There are better ways to spy on your family members
As if late 2020 wasn’t exhausting enough, Amazon has announced the Ring Always Home Cam, a flying camera drone for your house. It is sublimely dumb, a supposedly innovative tool that is neither innovative nor useful. It is a home-security device that can easily be defeated by a cat. It may also be a not-very-sneaky way for Amazon to map out the interior of your house so they can gaze ever more deeply into your personal desires and insecurities.
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The Ring Always Home Cam is a T-shaped drone that is secured in a docking base. The camera is obscured until the drone lifts off and begins to fly, which it can do for a maximum of five minutes. Once it begins flying, it streams video back to your phone, allowing you to monitor the current status of the home you’ve left behind.
Per Ring’s own words, this flying camera is thus a convenient way for you to check if you’ve left the oven on or left a window open. You can check on anything in your house with ease (as long as you’ve left all your interior doors open). In the interest of indoor safety, the Ring Always Home cam has propellers encased in plastic…
