- We are in the Ring booth at CES 2023
and we are gonna walk around and see some of the new gadgets
that Ring have brought to the show,
including the flying camera, the Always Home Cam.
We've also got the new Ring Car Cam,
which is a dashboard camera
and Ring has brought back an oldie but a goodie,
the Ring People Cam.
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The Always Home Cam.
This is the autonomous drone Ring camera.
It's got the guts of a Ring Video Doorbell Pro Two.
It is gonna fly around your home when you're not there
and check out if there's any disturbance.
It has specific routes that it'll travel.
And Jamie was telling us that rather
than creating like no-go zones for the drone,
you actually will walk the drone around your house
and show it where you want it to fly.
So it's not gonna, you know
fly into your grandmother's china.
It's a good concept actually,
and it sounds a little gimmicky
but one of the biggest problems
with smart home security cameras is you don't want a camera
in your house all day filming you when you're, you know,
don't wanna be filmed.
And what this does,
when it's finished flying around filming, is it drops
into what they're calling the laundry basket.
I think that's probably just a cute name
rather than the official name.
And here I'm gonna put it in there
and this is what it will be sitting in when it's not flying.
So as you can see, there's no camera lens staring at you.
This thing on top here is the LiDAR sensor,
and that is how it navigates.
They're telling us it's still gonna be a year
or so until we get this in our homes.
if you would want one in your home
because they're still struggling.
I think it sounds like mirrors and windows cause some
of the navigational issues, but they're working
on them and I'm certainly interested to try it out.
And I assure you, once I get my hands on it,
I'll be able to give you a full review.
Tell us about the Always Home Cam.
When are we gonna be able to buy the autonomous drone to fly
around our home?
- Well, we are very excited today to be showing it
flying autonomously at CES, big steps for us.
As you can see,
this is real innovation that we're doing here.
We're getting much closer
and looking forward to, in the next short future,
shipping these out to customers at high volume.
- It's $249.99.
- Yes it is.
- Okay. And what is the hold-up right now?
I mean a year, you announced this in 2020.
It's 2023, a year is 2024.
So tell us about some of the challenges around this.
- I mean, it is literally an autonomous flying vehicle
in your home.
There are things like ceiling fans
and furniture moves and so there's a lot of,
like the devil is in the details on this.
We are, we've gotten very far with it, with the technology,
also making it at a price point that is consumer-friendly.
It's a camera that allows you to see anywhere, any position,
any angle of your home at any time
without having a thousand cameras in your home.
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- So this is the new Ring Car Cam.
This just launched for pre-orders today
and it sits inside your car.
And we're gonna go and have a look
in the car here in a minute, but it is a dual-facing camera
so it's gonna record the road and you
but it has a privacy shutter here,
so if you'd rather just record the road,
it'll do that for you.
And it actually has an Alexa command built in,
so when you're driving
and say you have a little fender bender,
you can say, "Alexa record",
and it will start recording automatically.
And that's the neat thing about this compared,
to a lot of other dash cams, is it works natively
with the Ring ecosystem.
So if you already have Ring cameras, you'll just add
you know, front door, backyard, and then car.
So it's a neat little gadget.
It is $250.
I think you can get it
for pre-orders for $199.99 starting today.
And we're gonna go have a look
at it in the car, in its native environment.
Okay, so it's mounted here on the dashboard, is it?
Yeah, that's the sticky tape on the back.
And here you've got the camera facing into the car
and then the camera facing out and the privacy shutter.
The wire is the wire going along
in-between the dashboard and the windshield, plugging
in somewhere down here to the OBD port.
Very small, quite compact.
Much less distracting than having your smartphone there.
Okay, so this will be blue when it's recording,
so you've got a visual indicator that it's recording.
Alright, we got a little bit of breaking news here.
The Peephole Cam is back.
Renters rejoice.
This went away a year or so ago,
but apparently people were really excited to have it back.
And this is something you can install in your door
with no wires, no screws, so it's great for renters.
It's a Ring doorbell, $129.99,
and we can go through
and see what it looks like on the back.
Hello.
So you can see you've still got your peephole
so you can look through that just like you normally can.
And then the battery is in here.
Ah, there we go.
And you just recharge the battery
and you can record video, two-way audio,
keep an eye on your front door.
You can now buy it today, starting today for $129.99.
It used to be a bit more expensive, I think $180 before.
It's a good solution for renters.
It's actually the only solution I've seen
for a doorbell that doesn't require sticking wiring
or drilling into your doorframe.
So how do dogs and cats react
to having a camera flying around?
Has that been an issue?
- So in testing, I thought that was gonna be a real problem,
and it's almost strange,
like dogs just don't seem to care about this thing.
Cats for sure don't care.