Ultimate Wireless Webcam?

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Posted by Cliff on Thursday December 23, 2004 @02:04AM from the remotely-watching dept.

Chris asks: "I am in need of a webcam for home security. I want it to be able to connect to my home wireless network (802.11g) and have access to its images from a secure website. I also want to be able to access images from it on my cellphone. Is there a webcam that does this?"

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IT? by Atrax · 2004-12-23 02:06 · Score: 4, Insightful

Surely this is an 'ask slashdot'?

or am I just making that up?

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Veo Observer by AtariAmarok · 2004-12-23 02:14 · Score: 4, Informative

The Veo Observer is worth checking out. Looks like a one-eyed snakehead, but it does have its own built-in web server, is pretty easy to use, and they offer a wireless one. It has tilt, pan, zoom too.
Not only this, unlike X10, they have never spammed me or put annoying popups on web pages.

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Re:X10 by antifoidulus · 2004-12-23 02:51 · Score: 4, Informative

From what I have read(which includes the book hardware hacking for geeks) the quality on the X10 really blows. You can get better quality cameras for about the same amount of money, avoid the X10 if at all possible.

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Re:Paranoid? by bhima · 2004-12-23 03:58 · Score: 4, Funny

I actually took the paranoid monitoring thing to mean "I think my Wife / GF is cheating on me and I want to be able to confront them in the act"

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Wireless camera theft by fstat(pipe) · 2004-12-23 05:02 · Score: 5, Funny

A guy at work was showing the cool live webcam stream of his front yard when the neighbor kid walked up and stole the webcam.
Funny as hell.