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Brink gets sixth 'Get SMART' video, detailing dangers on the battlefield

Because you haven't had enough of these videos, Bethesda and Splash Damage released a new "Get SMART" tutorial today.  Titled "The Battlefield," part six covers a few key elements you'll encounter, from Command Posts to disguised operatives.

Command Posts are where you can restock ammo and check your team numbers.  While your base has its own post, you'll find more scattered around the battlefield, waiting to be captured and upgraded.  These capturable points will then reward buffs to your team, be it supply or health buffs. 

Other things to notice on the field are much deadlier.  Enemies can place turrets and hidden mines all across the battlefield, and hidden operatives may try to sneak into your team's ranks.  The video details all these elements and offers some insight into how you might counter them.

iWatchLife Launches Smart Video Security System ...

IWatchLife, an Ottawa-based technology company specializing in cloud-based smart video security systems for the home, today announced the launch of its iWatchLife Basic and iWatchLife Plus services. iWatchLife’s Basic and Plus services give users the ability to remotely monitor every aspect of their lives – home, vacation property, family, contractors, even pets – from any web-enabled computer, tablet or smartphone. iWatchLife Basic and Plus bring enterprise-grade video security features into the home by detecting only the events that iWatchLife users have pre-determined as being important.

“We see that families are beginning to use video for more than communicating with each other and I firmly believe that in only a few years, households will have every room wired for video. In order for this to happen, the technology needs to evolve beyond transmitting video from one place to another,” said Charles Black, president CEO, iWatchLife. “Other companies have failed to develop video security systems for home use with anything more than simple motion detection. iWatchLife has succeeded in taking motion detection to the next level and our service allows families to easily see only the events that matter to them.”

Other video security systems send alerts when any motion is detected by the wireless security camera . These systems generate many false alerts, resulting in unnecessary emails and forcing the user to sort through hours of recorded video to find out what triggered the alert. iWatchLife analyzes the movement within the wireless security camera ’s view and, without any human intervention, determines if the movement is significant enough to trigger an alert. iWatchLife sends alerts only for those events the user has determined as important, from a car driving up the driveway to a caregiver arriving at the home of an elderly parent. Using the same smart technology found in the million-dollar security systems guarding banks and airports, iWatchLife helps people stop worrying and start watching when they are not there using a simple webcam or a wireless security camera.

Key iWatchLife Smart Video Security Features See What Matters(TM) – iWatchLife’s Plus service includes the ability to further reduce false alerts by allowing users to draw specific areas inside the wireless security camera’s view and designate them as Intrusion Zones. Intrusion Zones help narrow the focus of iWatchLife’s advanced motion detection so that users are notified of activity in a specific area of the video security camera’s frame so that alerts are issued only when a door opens or when a child stands up in a crib. As well, iWatchLife Plus helps users maintain privacy by easily blocking out sensitive areas from the camera view such as a bedroom, windows or bathrooms by drawing Privacy Zones.

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