{"id":10105,"date":"2017-10-26T06:45:26","date_gmt":"2017-10-26T14:45:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/2017\/10\/26\/news-3878\/"},"modified":"2017-10-26T06:45:26","modified_gmt":"2017-10-26T14:45:26","slug":"news-3878","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/2017\/10\/26\/news-3878\/","title":{"rendered":"Dystopia Alert: Floating Cameras for Your House"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/video-images.vice.com\/articles\/59f1efdb9a148378c23f019e\/lede\/1509028053199-Screen-Shot-2017-10-26-at-102712-AM.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Credit to Author: Samantha Cole| Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2017 14:30:42 +0000<\/strong><\/p>\n<p> I can think of few technological advancements creepier than a drone following me around my own home like I&#8217;m on house arrest in the not-so-distant future. But that&#8217;s exactly what people keep churning out on Indiegogo and Kickstarter. <\/p>\n<p> The latest hellbot in our increasingly absurd and willingly-entered surveillance state is the &#8220;Moon&#8221; by smart home and IoT company 1-Ring. Moon is a levitating security camera that takes 360-degree footage of your home. It&#8217;s not clear from its crowdfunding page how it actually levitates, but it apparently does. <\/p>\n<p> Voice and noise recognition make this tennis ball sized eyeball turn toward the action. And the company advertises &#8220;behavior based learning,&#8221; so it&#8217;ll presumptively take your daily life and preferences and optimize them with machine learning to make the Moon even better at quietly tracking you and your family&#8217;s daily life. It&#8217;s advertised as a security device, as well as a baby monitor or recorder for all of your wacky living room\/conference room hijinx.<\/p>\n<div data-embed-id=\"1509028072221\" class=\"article__embed article__embed--indiegogo\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.indiegogo.com\/project\/moon-by-1-ring-the-worlds-first-levitating-camera-security\/embedded\" width=\"100%\" height=\"420\" frameborder=\"0\" ><\/iframe> <\/div>\n<p> More than 400 people have backed this thing so far <a href=\"https:\/\/www.indiegogo.com\/projects\/moon-by-1-ring-the-worlds-first-levitating-camera-security#\/\" target=\"_blank\">on Indiegogo<\/a>, throwing a combined $93,229 at it. It&#8217;s 200% funded! The public wants floating cameras. <\/p>\n<p> The Moon isn&#8217;t alone in this questionable space. In September, the Avena Aire drone\u2014essentially a flying Alexa\u2014raised $84,464 on Kickstarter, beyond its $50,000 goal. It was supposed to be a drone for your home, drifting around ready to take selfies, answer all the dumb questions you typically ask Alexa, play music, or just generally be up your ass.<\/p>\n<div data-iframely-id=\"YOZdatO\" data-embedded-url=\"https:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/1042731515\/aire-a-self-flying-robotic-assistant-for-the-home\/description\" class=\"article__embed article__embed--iframely\">\n<div style=\"left: 0; width: 100%; height: 0; position: relative; padding-bottom: 56.2493%;\" data-iframely-smart-iframe=\"true\"><iframe  src= width=\"100%\" height=\"420\" frameborder=\"0\" ><\/iframe> <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p> But seven days ago, Avena founder Jeff Tseng <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/1042731515\/aire-a-self-flying-robotic-assistant-for-the-home\/posts\/2006682\" target=\"_blank\">announced he was canceling the Aire project<\/a>, citing &#8220;several unexpected business opportunities.&#8221; The company got so much good press that it had to kill its eerie robot darling. <\/p>\n<p> I personally think the Moon belongs, well in space\u2014the only acceptable place for a flying camera bot since there&#8217;s not a lot else to do but report your every burp back for science. Of course, there&#8217;s a levitating camera for that, too: the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency sent the <a href=\"http:\/\/iss.jaxa.jp\/en\/kiboexp\/news\/170714_int_ball_en.html\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Int-Ball<\/a>&#8221; to the International Space Station in June.<\/p>\n<p> To everyone else developing indoor interrogation drones: Please, no more.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/motherboard.vice.com\/en_us\/article\/zmz4bj\/floating-camera-alexa-indoor-drone\" target=\"bwo\" >https:\/\/motherboard.vice.com\/en_us\/rss<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/video-images.vice.com\/articles\/59f1efdb9a148378c23f019e\/lede\/1509028053199-Screen-Shot-2017-10-26-at-102712-AM.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Credit to Author: Samantha Cole| Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2017 14:30:42 +0000<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Companies keep suggesting we should put floating cameras that track us in our homes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","footnotes":""},"categories":[10643,13328,10378],"tags":[16130,8150,6146,14117,14574],"class_list":["post-10105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-independent","category-motherboard","category-security","tag-crowdfunding","tag-drones","tag-dystopia","tag-kickstarter","tag-state-of-surveillance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10105"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10105\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}