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Taking ‘enter at your own risk’ to a whole new level, a new AI-powered smart security camera is ready and willing to choose violence.

Created by a Slovenian startup, the security camera doesn’t just spy on unwanted visitors, but will open fire on potential intruders with paintball pellets – or even tear gas rounds – with “ultra-high precision.” What could possibly go wrong?

Everyone has security cameras these days. Most are simple enough that more or less anyone can install it to keep watch on their property when on vacation, check in on pets while at work, or spy on your teenager.

PaintCam Eve uses automatic target marking, face recognition and AI-based decision-making to identify unfamiliar visitors to your property, day or night. Should someone dare set foot on your patio without being given the ‘all clear’, Eve will give them a friendly five-second warning to buzz off, before blasting paintballs at them.

If pelting a potential intruder and splattering their clothes isn’t quite dramatic enough for you, Eve is quite happy to step things up to another level altogether, with the option of blasting tear gas projectiles at them.

 

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Eve’s creators call it “a vigilant guardian that doesn’t sleep, blink, or miss a beat” and “a proactive participant in your safety.” You might even call it a Jehova witness blaster or a daughter’s boyfriend blaster if you want.

Eve comes with your usual security camera features. There’s remote access, with Eve promising to work “autonomously” if you lose internet connection to the system (again, what could possibly go wrong?).

You can also take personal responsibility for who gets peppered. For example, if someone unknown enters the camera’s field, alongside a familiar visitor, the facial recognition software will notify you for instructions on what to do next.

Some versions of the system will also identify familiar pets, implying that they’ll happily open fire on the neighbour’s dog who keeps pooping in your yard, or other local wildlife like hadadas and squirrels – although we’re sure the SPCA won’t like that.

The makers haven’t provided a ton in the way of specs, but they do promise some standards you’d hope for in home security: live monitoring, customizable alerts, night vision, object tracking, movement detection and a reasonably slick and unobtrusive, easy-to-set-up design. There’s also video storage and playback – and we can’t imagine a security camera whose footage we’d be more interested in watching.

As cool as the idea might seem, this just has too much of a Robocop meets R2D2 vibe for my liking. Still, it could be a handy way to get rid of the crazy ex.

[source:newatlas]