Doorbell cameras are normal fare as of late. More and extra folks have invested in linked safety systemss, because the know-how has turn into each cheaper and extra consumer pleasant. There’s one essential factor these system received’t do, nonetheless: shoot folks and animals with paintballs.
That is, nonetheless, just about the Eve PaintCam’s entire M.O. Carrying the considerably deceptive tagline “Safety Simplified,” there’s a quartet of various fashions rigging on the identical theme. After working each Kickstarter and Indiegogo campaigns, Slovenian startup OZ-IT arrange store at CES 2025 this week to point out 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 EveProfessional are largely focused at folks, whereas the camouflaged Simba is primarily geared toward deterring wild animals.
Depending on the configuration you select, the system has some mixture of pet detection (Eve+, EveProfessional), face recognition (EveProfessional), and animal recognition (Eve Simba) AI options.
There are a variety of projectiles (paintballs), as nicely, together with one with capsaicin, the chemical compound that offers chili peppers their warmth, which the corporate says is “authorized in most nations.” They additionally supply “particular projectiles for particular animals” and ones full of UV paint to assist the police monitor a tagged intruder down.
