Appologics launched AirBeam Pro, their new App for OSX Lion. The App is part of their suite of unique surveillance Apps available for iOS and OSX and turns now also the Mac into a flexible surveillance camera and monitor.

AirBeam streams live audio and video in high definition quality from the Mac’s built-in or external cameras across a WiFi or 3G network. The stream can be followed and controlled remotely with a Web Browser or with the AirBeam App for iOS. AirBeam works also vice…

Back in January, the Internet got together in a co-ordinated effort to defeat a US Bill called SOPA (Stop Online Piracy Act) which was making its way through Congress.  When the Bill was finally brought to a screeching halt, everyone high-fived each other, convinced that the efforts by the US Government and various media companies to take greater control over our online lives, had been scuppered.

Not so, it seems. The Bill has been brought back under a new name – …

Verizon has been…

Ever wonder what those police security towers look like inside? This particular tower comes with PTZ controller, VGA monitor, DVR, VHF radio and full hydraulic controls. The tower also comes fully equipped with sirens, lighting, loud speaker, Wi-Fi, PTZ camera and air conditioning. The Mexican Police Department has recently deployed several of these towers in 2012. Took this puppy up for a look around. Pretty cool. …

Invest in black box data recorders for vehicles if you have the funds. A recent bill that has already passed

by the Senate and is set to be stamped by the House would make it mandatory for all new cars in the United States to be…

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According to GOPers, America is so broke that we have to implement austerity measures, the same ones that are…

This USB pocket router can come in handy for those remote jobs. The PocketPORT is the world’s smallest 4G / 3G USB Cellular Modem to Ethernet Bridge.

The PocketPORT instantly connects virtually any cellular (4G / 3G) USB modem to any Ethernet device simply by plugging both devices into the PocketPORT. PocketPORT is the highly portable, simple and is an…

File this under the bizarre but potentially life-saving category of new tech: an intelligent floor that knows who is doing what on a given surface, and can alert police or first responders in the event of an intrusion or medical emergency.

IBM, which filed for a patent describing such a system in February 2009, is now, just more than three years later, the proud holder of said patent. What it does with it remains to be seen, but the initial vision…

" No point in putting cameras up or extra security or whatever. Change the law back to capital punishment. People need to feel safe out there. We all turn a blind eye until it happens to one of our kin, only then would you feel the full disgust in our system. Things need to change. "

Read the rant …

Aplustek International has released an underwater bullet IR camera for extreme surveillance applications in 20M, 30M and up to 70M depths below the water's surface. 

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CE and video technology giant Toshiba is claiming to have launched the world’s first hardware engine for streaming servers that directly delivers video content from SSD to IP networks, without accessing the server’s CPU or memory resources.

The new NPEngine…

I don't carry my camera with me very often anymore since most pics I take nowadays can be easily taken with my smartphone. One of the drawbacks to using my iPhone is how steady your hands have to be to get that perfect picture. Most of the time, I really don’t care about precision when it…

Check out this pretty cool concept from Bandai Co., Ltd. It’s called the “Smart Pet”– a kind of i-Puppy

It starts with the robotic body of…

If you have a Lutron HomeWorks system, you have several options for automating your home. The…

The shooting death of young Trayvon Martin by George Zimmerman has made national news and just last week, the Sanford Police Department released surveillance video of the shooter, George Zimmerman.

ABC News recently sought the help of Forensic Protection Inc.,based out of California.The video and audio enhancement company re-digitized and enhanced the recorded video to look at Zimmerman closely. What looks like a grainy standard D1 analog image becomes surprisingly sharper and…

We’ve seen RFID technology used to protect children on farms in the past, and now we’re seeing that same technology being used to keep track of school children too. The Brazilian city of Vitoria da Conquista is introducing radio tags on the clothes of students in order to tackle the problem of truancy among younger citizens.

According to the Associated Press, some 20,000 pupils across…