Now Rover Can Text You With Web-Based Spy-Cam: Rich Jaroslovsky

When it comes to reviewing video products, my subject of choice tends to be the family poodle, who usually cooperates, never complains and works cheap.

Lately, Callie’s had a starring role on the Internet, thanks to the Dropcam, an easy-to-set-up, easy-to-use Web-based camera and monitoring system. It does more than just provide you with a remote eye. It will also keep track of what’s going on when you aren’t watching, alert you to events worth paying attention to, and, for an extra fee, let you go back in time to retrieve events you didn’t pay attention to but should have.