More Strange Uses for IP Cameras

March 14th, 2007 by Kevin Bowyer

We’re always on the lookout for interesting uses for IP cameras and webcams and while on holiday in New Zealand last month this one caught my eye.

While you can’t see the camera in the picture (damned camera phones.. arghh!), this side-of-the-road Avocado stall at Athenree / Waihi Beach on the Bay of Plenty was monitored by an Axis 211w.

A bag of (huge) avos was $2 and this went in the lockable moneybox on the stall. There were probably no more than 20 bucks in there at any point, but boy, were those Avocados worth protecting!

Next time: webcams on the moon. We jest.