Doorbell cameras are normal fare lately. An increasing number of individuals have invested in related safety systemss, because the know-how has change into each cheaper and extra person pleasant. There’s one vital factor these system gained’t do, nonetheless: shoot individuals and animals with paintballs.
That’s, nonetheless, just about the Eve PaintCam’s entire M.O. Carrying the considerably deceptive tagline “Security Simplified,” there’s a quartet of various fashions rigging on the identical theme. After operating each Kickstarter and Indiegogo campaigns, Slovenian startup OZ-IT arrange store at CES 2025 this week to indicate the tech world what’s — at very least — a novel method.
Crowdfunding movies and media handouts spotlight the system’s prowess with each human and animal targets — that’s intruders within the case of the previous and undesirable wildlife with the later. The Eve, Eve+, and EvePro are largely focused at individuals, whereas the camouflaged Simba is primarily geared toward deterring wild animals.
Relying on the configuration you select, the system has some mixture of pet detection (Eve+, EvePro), face recognition (EvePro), and animal recognition (Eve Simba) AI options.
There are a number of projectiles (paintballs), as nicely, together with one with capsaicin, the chemical compound that provides chili peppers their warmth, which the corporate says is “authorized in most international locations.” Additionally they supply “particular projectiles for particular animals” and ones full of UV paint to assist the police observe a tagged intruder down.
