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Have an area around the house you want to keep an eye on?  Maybe you want to watch a kid’s room, your garage with your prized car, or just your front door.  There are a number of webcam solutions that will let you monitor things, but there’s usually a cumbersome set up process involved.  Avaak is looking to change all that by rolling out the Vue personal video network.  Shortly stated, this is a package that comes with a base station that communicates with two battery-powered cameras that allows you to monitor things online. 

The company behind the Vue claims that you can get up to a year of usage out of the wireless cameras using just one battery.  Since these cameras do not need an ethernet or power cable, they can be placed in lots of locations using the included magnetic mounts. 

The cameras communicate with a base station, the Vue gateway, which connects to your router.  You would have to buy an adapter to make the base station use Wi-Fi.  The cameras have to be within 300 feet of the base station. 

How do you watch the video?  You have to use a special site from Vue The first year’s service is included in the $299 price, and will cost $19.95 per year after that.  Extra cameras will cost $99.  Each Vue gateway can support up to 50 cameras. 

Right now, the Vue personal video network is available for pre-order and will be shipping “Early Summer 2009,” which we found out would mostly likely be July.  If it actually works the way the company claims, this could be a very promising product.

Product Page: [Vue]