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Smarthome.com offers a solar powered color wireless outdoor camera. The camera has built-in motion detector. So it transmits images and voices only if it’s needed. The good feature of this camera is a solar battery:

The 2.4GHz Solar Color PIR Camera’s solar panel uses the sun’s rays to run and maintain a charge to the camera battery during daylight hours. A negligible amount of energy is released by the long-life rechargeable battery to operate the camera at night. While the camera will work after sunset, it requires a minimum light of 3 Lux to capture images.

Cyprus is the good place to use this camera. Here is a lot of sunny days!

The price of Solar Color PIR Camera is just $159.99.

Many people were in the situation when they came to their cars and found out some damages. It’s difficult or maybe impossible to find a witness and get a compensation. The British company TruScene offers an elegant solution – The TruScene TS-1L camera. The camera should be mounted internally on the front windscreen (there is also an option to purchase a rear mounted camera for fitting to the rear screen). If the car is involved in an accident that results in a pre-determined g-force, then a g-force motion sensor is activated and the video image is transferred to non-volatile memory for storage. The camera can be easyly connected to the PC to download video.

Additionally, the camera has built-in LCD display for adjastment and integraded GPS to allow for the location of the footage to be embedded onto the clip as well as the time.

Hovewer, the price is not so cheap – $1,000. But it depends on your car.

[via Engadget]

The Mini-Air Watch4 Wireless Color Camera Kit is a tiny wireless security color camera system for homes or small businesses. It comes with four wireless video cameras, a video receiver and remote control.

The cameras may transmit video and sound from up to 30 meters away indoors or 100 meters away with clear line of sight.

The kit can be appropriate solution for reasonable price – $299.99. But it has some limitations. One of the most serious is lack of possibility to integration with a home automation system or at least connection to the recorder via network. In this point of view it maybe better to buy simple IP camera such as Genius IP Network Security Camera IPCAM SECURE300.