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2 stories filed under monitoring on Spoot: Spotted Early. The newest of them: “Oru lamp pokes its nose into your wood stove so you don't have to” and “Sony's new wireless mic dares creators to look past the price tag”. Oru lamp pokes its nose into your wood stove so you don't have to. Sony's ECM-W5 wireless mic lands in a market absolutely stuffed with affordable alternatives that already do the job well. Spoot: Spotted Early New things, caught while they're still new and a little weird. Spoot finds fresh gadgets, clever inventions, crowdfunding campaigns,… The list below is every monitoring story on Spoot: Spotted Early, newest first.
Oru lamp pokes its nose into your wood stove so you don't have to
Oru lamp pokes its nose into your wood stove so you don't have to. That's the kind of specific, slightly feral design choice I can get behind. Winter is coming, millions of households are firing up their stoves, and every year unattended fires contribute to house fires. The Oru, fresh on Kickstarter, is a lamp that monitors the fire and offers peace of mind to the constantly worried. It's a simple premise executed on a narrow, necessary detail everyone else scrolls past. I like that it doesn't swallow the hype, it's a crowdfunding project, and it says so plainly. If you're also in the market for tools that do the thinking for you, you might enjoy our coverage of the Arrowmax S1, which picks the bit and torque so you don't have to.
Sony's new wireless mic dares creators to look past the price tag
Sony's ECM-W5 wireless mic lands in a market absolutely stuffed with affordable alternatives that already do the job well. And Sony knows it. So instead of just making another competent microphone, they packed this one with features that only make sense if you already own a Sony camera. That's a gamble. The creator space has been flooded with impressive little mics that cost half as much and sound great. To justify that premium price tag, the ECM-W5 needs to offer something the others can't. The real question isn't whether it sounds good, it's whether those exclusive features are enough to make Sony shooters reach for their wallets. And whether anyone else should bother looking twice.