Get an extra eye on the road with the awesome Owl Car Cam. Founded by Andy Hodge, a former iPod product leader, this dash camera was designed to give you home-grade security behind the wheel. It’s packed with stellar features you won’t find elsewhere.
Dash cameras provide you with a record of what happens on the road. If you’re involved in a smash, video evidence could be hugely important in determining who was at fault. The Owl Car Cam gives you this — and a lot more.
Owl is intelligent
Owl shoots video 24 hours a day, so no matter what happens when you’re behind the wheel, there’s a record of it. It has high-definition cameras on its front and its back so that it doesn’t miss a thing, and you can check in on it when you’re away to ensure your car is safe.
Owl uploads video directly to the cloud over LTE, while its built-in GPS can tell you where exactly a clip was captured. If you want to save a clip to your phone, just say the “Okay Presto” voice command and Owl takes care of the rest.
Owl can identify crashes using impact sensors and automatically flag and save video recordings to your iPhone. The same thing happens when Owl detects that your car has been hit in a parking lot. This makes it easy to find important clips in your 24-hour timeline.
Own protects you from break-ins
Because Owl keeps recording even when your car isn’t running, it can alert you if someone attempts to break into your vehicle. Its LED floodlights activate automatically, lighting up the interior for maximum exposure and ensuring you get crystal clear evidence even at night.
Owl is super-easy to install and you can do it all yourself in just five minutes. It plugs into the ODB port in your car for power, while its wires can be hidden along the windshield seal. The camera itself is secured in place using simple suction cups.
Pairing with your iPhone is as easy as scanning a QR code that appears on Owl’s screen when it first powers on.
It’s no wonder Owl is user-friendly and feature-packed. It was founded by Andy Hodge, a former Apple employee who led product development for the original iPod. Hodge spent time at Microsoft as its GM of Hololens, and at Dropcam, where he was VP of hardware and strategy.
You can order your Owl Car Cam today through the Owl website. At launch, you’ll pay $349 for the camera itself and one year of Owl service — saving you $70.
Killian Bell is a freelance writer based in the U.K. He has an interest in all things tech and also covers Android over at CultofAndroid.com. You can follow him on Twitter via @killianbell.
4 responses to “Former iPod product lead builds an awesome dash cam”
Nice features, but very expensive. It has to save footage to the cloud to be worth anything as a security camera. But to save to the cloud, it’ll need cellular….that’s $$/month. Then the storing of the footage is more $$/month. Then here’s the camera itself at a whopping $350/month (same price as an Apple HomePod!). Just makes no financial sense to pay all this money – just so you have some footage in the very unlikely events of you being involved in an accident or your car being broken into.
Seems like a product for < 5%ers. That's not a large target audience. Prediction: the company will fold.
Yep! Statistically car accidents and break-ins are rare. This is just another toy for the rich.
What? The guy left the dog in the car?
I agree, this is too expensive. Other cheaper options will follow.
The $349 price is barely okay until you figure in the subscription, AND the cost of data to upload the videos. No thanks.