Want to know what's going on at home while you're away? Win a Wi-Fi camera that streams live video of homestead happenings to your smartphone, tablet or computer.
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Now that that PSA is out of the way, we've got a brand-new freebie, an ArcSoft Simplicam Wi-Fi security camera. It lets you check in on your kids, pets, chairs and sofa from your smartphone.
The facial-recognition feature is available through an optional cloud service starting at $5 a month (ArcSoft is tossing in a $49.99 one-year subscription to the Closeli Cloud for this giveaway). Without cloud-recording services, you still get motion and sound alerts and live 720p streaming to your smartphone, tablet or computer via the free Closeli app.The camera has the motion and sound alerts typical for surveillance cams but stands out for its facial-recognition capabilities. It can't actually distinguish between faces, but it can recognize that it's looking at one, and theoretically, notify you that a human, as opposed to a cat or a rustling branch, has triggered its motion sensor.
In her CNET review of the ArcSoft Simplicam, Megan Wollerton has a few minor quibbles with the $149.99 Simplicam, but says that "Simplicam impresses and in some ways surpasses pricier models." So how do you go about snagging one for free? There are a few rules, so please read carefully.
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