Recently, Amazon has introduced Amazon Echo and Echo Dot, Amazon Echo Show or Fire TV Stick and Fire TV Stick Lite devices for the home. But to all of these there are also several home surveillance cameras under the Ring brand (an Amazon company). Of all of them, none is as quirky as the Ring Always Home Cam, a drone that flies autonomously and records what it sees.

The Ring Always Home Cam is designed to record the entire home and show the user images from anywhere in the home. For this, and unlike other security cameras, it is not a fixed camera in a corner of the room. Instead, it's a small drone that can fly indoors to take pictures of any hole or room. All this in autonomous mode, and after finishing recording the desired place, it returns to its base to charge the battery.

If we look at its design, it is a cube with rounded edges and two main pieces. The bottom part is white, the base, and its main function is to hold and charge the camera when stationary. The top is smaller and lighter, with a T shape and four propellers. The propellers are inside a frame so they don't crash and break anything, while the "stick" of the T is used to mount the surveillance camera itself.

One flying camera instead of multiple fixed ones

Although the camera is completely autonomous, the user can tell it which routes it can take and which places it can or cannot enter inside the house. The first time you use Ring Always Home Cam, it creates a map of your entire home and assigns names to each room. So you can ask him to see what's going on in the kitchen, for example. In addition to flying on command, the drone can automatically go to a specific location to see what's going on if another connected Ring device in the home detects motion, sound, or other alarms anywhere in the home.

Privacy is a key aspect of these types of devices (and the Ring is, in fact, somewhat controversial in this regard), which is why Amazon insists that the Ring Always Home Cam only records when it's flying since the camera is at its base, inside. In addition, they say that the noisy drone also has a function to warn that it is being recorded.

In short, it is a curious security camera that allows you to check almost any point in the house without having to install multiple cameras everywhere. It can be especially useful for checking outside the home, for example, whether or not an appliance has turned off, or whether a pet is okay. However, we'll know more about this camera when it hits the market, as it's just a preview for now and it's expected to arrive for good next year. It will be available in the United States for $250.