It’s been nearly a year since the Ring’s Always Home Cam was unveiled at Amazon’s hardware event, and the reasons to love or hate the household security drone have been unrestrainedly shouted ever since. Now consumers are finally getting the chance to adopt the aerial watchdog, and either adore or detest it in their very own abode, sweet abode.
Ring made its Always Home Cam available for purchase by invitation from its Amazon owner’s product page this week. For the price of $250, customers will receive a drone-by-any-other-name “first-of-its-kind flying indoor security camera for your home” that shoots 1440 x 1440 HD video as it patrols their house using preset flight paths. As most readers know by now, the T-shaped craft’s propellers are encased in plastic as a safeguard against any drone-meets-face collisions – the potential of those having been quasi-eliminated by embedded obstacle avoidance technology anyway. Safety and security both…
