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NVIDIA's AI may keep watch over smart cities of the future
Artificial intelligence is pushing into every area of our life with deep inroads to our mobile devices, our video games, and even our own brains. Video surveillance could the next step if NVIDIA's new video analytics platform, Metropolis, is successful. The initiative, announced just ahead of the annual GPU conference this week, will use learning AI to analyze the massive amount of data from surveillance video for "public safety, traffic management and resource optimization."
Periscope Pro turns your Mac into a video surveillance unit
If you have ever researched surveillance systems, you know that they don't come cheap. The hardware, installation and software can set you back a pretty penny and therefore are more suitable for businesses or the more financially endowed among us. ZipZapMac announced today a reasonably priced solution that offers even the most monetary challenged a way to feel more secure when they're away. Periscope Pro is US$19.99 OS X application that provides motion-based video surveillance. It uses your built-in or an external camera and microphone and ZipZapMac claims you can set it up in under a minute. The user-configurable app can be set to trigger only when there is activity in a space, to capture timed or continuous video, how long are the video clips or to launch at log in. The captured video automatically uploads to your free DropBox account, so that you can check it no matter where you are, as long as you have an active internet connection. The best news is that Periscope Pro [store link] works in OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard) and up. It is available now in the Mac App Store.
Samsung enters new Galaxy with BabyView range of infant video monitors
Talk about broadening one's horizon. Samsung took a break from pushing its connected HDTVs and Galaxy S line here at CES to introduce something just a wee bit different: a baby video monitor line. Yeah, seriously. The BabyView range is said to be engineered to fit into the wild and crazy lifestyles of "tech-savvy parents," enabling proud mamas and papas to share audio and video of their youngster with friends and family via Twitter and Facebook. How so? It'll log video onto a built-in SD card, which can then be offloaded and transferred -- not exactly the most seamless process in the world, but hey, there it is. The whole line will offer night vision, two-way talking, sound / vibration alerts, a remote nightlight, SD card slot and networked support for up to four cameras. Hop on past the break if you need specifics, and look for the whole lot to land this spring for between $199 and $299.
