{"id":13566,"date":"2013-05-27T14:45:24","date_gmt":"2013-05-27T12:45:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/?p=13566"},"modified":"2013-05-27T14:45:24","modified_gmt":"2013-05-27T12:45:24","slug":"people-power-presence-hardware","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/2013\/05\/people-power-presence-hardware\/","title":{"rendered":"Stop! Don’t throw away your old iPhone! Use it as a Webcam, instead."},"content":{"rendered":"

\"mzl.mgsuzrll.320x480-75\"I’m almost two years into my iPhone 4s. I bought it after spending a year in France with a jailbroken iPhone 3G and deciding that I wanted 1) a phone that could operate unjailbroken in France and 2) that my iPhone 3G had gotten outdated. It now sits en\u00a0<\/em>permanence <\/i>on an iPhone dock in the kitchen ready to play a song from the 8G of music it holds – more recently, I’ve been thinking about hooking Spotify to it, but I’m quite frankly not sure that it will run on the outdated jailbroken OS.<\/p>\n

I was happy to discover that my old telephone might be more useful than just as a MP3 Player. The guys over at People Power<\/a>\u00a0have launched a new iOS app, Presence<\/a>, which turns any iOS device into a cloud-synced webcam. Watch your baby, your house, your neighbor or your boss. People Power has already raised $5.8M as “the universal remote control for the Internet of Things delivering intuitive mobile apps and cloud based software putting device monitoring and control in the palm of your hands.”<\/p>\n

People Power, which currently has 1000s of daily users, says that 50 Million iPhones have already been replaced, and given how each new model seems to have a worse battery, I can see this number going through the roof. Giving these out of date (i.e: 24 months old) devices an ongoing purpose is an interesting market approach; although I’m concerned about the need to A) keep it always charged B) keep it always connected to Wifi and C) keep it pointed at something relevant, like my dog.<\/p>\n