A new box to help keep an eye on things

Riding the expansion of the home security market is this blurry
(seriously, that's the picture on the product page) monstrosity, a 16-channel digital video recorder (not to be confused with your TiVo). It is actually used to store security camera feeds (16 of them in fact) on a pretty hefty removable 250GB hard drive and can burn them onto CD's. All this so you can capture every second of the action as rival drug dealers storm your mansion. For those drug barons worried about powering their cameras, each of the 16 attached cameras can be plugged into power terminals on the box itself. Truly a bargain at half the cost, which is a not insubstantial $3,499, down from $4,799 list. Generous, eh?

[Thanks, Marc]