Owl is a smarter spin on a dashboard camera
Owl hopes to do for the dashboard camera market what the iPod did for portable audio players. That might seem like a tall order for a fledgling startup, but the ambition makes sense for a company led by Andy Hodge, who served as the iPod product lead at Apple for a decade. After a stint at Dropcam , he realized that there's another area where a smart security camera could be useful: Inside your car. Given the ever-present threat of accidents, break-ins and mysterious parking lot dings, a cloud-connected dashcam seems like something every driver would want today. The Owl Car Cam is an unassuming device. It has a small frame and a 2.5-inch touchscreen -- enough so that you can see video playback from the driver's seat, but not so large that it would distract you on the road. There's a 4 megapixel camera facing the road, while another is pointed at you inside the car. Together, they capture most of your in-car experience -- they can even see what's happening off to the...