People with Alzheimer’s disease suffer from a condition that endangers their daily lives regardless of how secure their environment is perceived to be. With this disease, the afflicted have a tendency to wander away from their homes or families, become disoriented, and can’t find their way back. In some of the most heartbreaking cases, the victims are never found until it’s too late. [...]
There have been a rash of child abuse cases lately that have been foiled by well-positioned nanny cams. We recently ran a story about a New York babysitter caught on camera drugging an infant girl to get her to “calm down”. In the past week there have been two cases, one in Chicago and one in Columbus, Ohio, that have reiterated the importance of hidden cameras as a bulwark against abusive babysitters. [...]
In search of perfect tracking solutions for the do-it-yourself private investigators and undercover spies, Wired magazine researched the best gadgets available to the public. And what they found was what we knew all along: BrickHouse Security’s tracking equipment came out on top as the leader of the GPS tracking community. [...]
When a person’s Facebook account gets hacked there are many things that are immediately compromised, epecially if the same password is used for other websites and online identities, such as an e-mail account, or the login for banking services. If hacked, the victim is encouraged to quickly change all of the affected passwords as well as the Facebook password itself. [...]
One of the scariest moments in a parent’s life is when their child takes out the car alone for the first time. By the time parents let their children drive alone, they know that the child is capable of driving properly and obeying all the rules of the road and basic safety. But, as we’ve seen, kids left to their own devices (and the added fire-fueler that is peer pressure) can make infinitely poor decisions. [...]
GPS trackers and smartphone applications are ideal for finding where you’re going; but it turns out they can be equally useful proving where you’ve been, and how you got there. A California college student recently used a cell phone app to talk his way out of a speeding ticket. [...]
With the advent of security cameras for business use, criminals have been looking for new ways to go undetected. Most, if not all, businesses install surveillance gear as high as possible to get a better panorama of their stores, and keep the cameras out of vandals’ reach. Ever crafty, however, criminals have found a fine way to skirt the surveillance: simply wearing hats and hooded sweatshirts. [...]
Whether we like them or not, and whether they impose upon our personal privacy, TSA body scanners are effective in preventing people from sneaking explosives and weapons onto airplanes. A recent TSA experiment, however, has proven that regardless of their effectiveness, the scanners are useless if operated by the inattentive or incompetent; which happens more often than you’d expect. [...]
Combat robotics have advanced dramatically in the past few years. Flying drones with thermal-sensing capabilities have been the apex thus far; but now it seems a new brand of breath-detecting bots could be the next wave in mechanized militants. [...]
GPS navigation is extremely useful, and in this day and age almost everyone relies on it in some form or another, sometimes on a daily basis. However, the old GPS navigation systems would simply give you direction like: “turn left in 50 feet,” or something to that effect; which makes it pretty easy to miss your turn or stop at the right house when you’re driving. The next generation of GPS navigation is much more sophisticated than that, and actually takes into consideration the real world that the driver sees. [...]
We offer many different types of surveillance gear here at BrickHouse, but this use of a hidden camera is one that even we didn’t expect. The video below contains an “experiment” that two California girls carried out to see just how many men checked out their bodies when they have their backs turned. The way this experiment was carried out was with a tiny camera attached to the back of a girl’s pants. [...]
Criminals are always on the lookout for how they can use modern technology to make crime easier and more efficient. Their latest tool is one that we all know and use on a daily basis: the Google search engine. But instead of looking up random facts and links to websites, the criminals use the search engine to research potential kidnapping victims, and if valuable enough, hold them as hostages until a ransom is paid. [...]
For the past ten years the city of Lynwood, Calif. has struggled to fight gang violence and prostitution. It wasn’t having much success, however, and started looking for a new way to clean up its streets. Then in 2008, the Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department, Century Station, decided to run a trial of street security cameras to find out if they would help deter or catch criminals. And it wasn’t too long before the cameras proved successful.
Teens and young adults are notorious for their stupidity—such is the process of growing up and gaining wisdom. But some things are just so stupid and dangerous that it just baffles others. Meet car surfing: a trend which has risen in the past few years. Yes, it is exactly what it sounds like. And yes, it is as stupid and dangerous as you’d think. [...]
