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A former Apple engineer who worked on the first iPhone is making a super-smart camera for your car - here's how it workshttps://www.businessinsider.in/a-former-apple-engineer-who-worked-on-the-first-iphone-is-making-a-super-smart-camera-for-your-car-heres-how-it-works/the-owl-is-a-smart-camera-that-lives-on-the-dashboard-of-your-car-/slidelist/62746197.cms2018-02-01T21:31:46+05:30

A former Apple engineer who worked on the first iPhone is making a super-smart camera for your car - here's how it works

Feb 1, 2018, 21:31 IST

The Owl is a smart camera that lives on the dashboard of your car.

Here's a closer look at the device. It has cameras on both its front and the back.

It films the road in front of the car, like a dash cam, allowing you to get footage of interesting things that have happened on the road in front of you.

It's also useful to have your own visual record of a traffic stop, too.

The camera also records what's going on inside the vehicle too, which can be used to scare off a burglar who's breaking into your car.

The camera can also be used to film fun clips, "Carpool Karaoke"-style.

And if something happens to your car — like a hit and run — you'll get a notification. The Owl cam is constantly connected to the internet with an LTE connection.

The Owl cam records 24 hours of video before it starts overwriting what's in its memory. This allows it to capture events even if the user didn't specifically tell it to start filming. To save something you just saw, you say, "OK Presto" and give the clip a name.

Then it's sent to the Owl app on your phone. In the app, you can trim the clip, give it a title, and send it to friends or social media.

It's easy to share videos to social networks like Instagram.

You set Owl up by plugging it into the OBD port in your car.

Then you run a wire on your dashboard where it meets the windshield.

Owl also provides a very permanent-feeling mount for the camera.

Finally, put the camera on the mount.

Because Owl has an LTE connection, when it saves a video, it goes to the cloud — not over Bluetooth to your phone. That being said, you do have to pair the two devices by scanning a QR code.

It's a cool product from a young company.

Watch Owl's complete commercial here:

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