Beehive-shaped Smart Home Camera Deters Thieves While Blending Into Nature

Smart tech, but make it adorable! Say hello to Seehive, a beehive-inspired home camera designed to be placed outside your house, monitoring spaces while coolly blending into the nature around you.

I’ve always been intrigued by tech that doesn’t look like tech (anyone who’s obsessively read my articles knows that), and the Seehive falls perfectly into that camp. Smart home cameras are all about vigilance and instilling a sense of dread into thieves who know they’re being filmed – and a hive inspires the same sense of dread from anyone scared of being attacked by a swarm of bees. The result? A beehive that doesn’t sting you, it performs a ‘sting operation’ instead!

Designer: Sarang Sheth

The Seehive is a fairly simple smart home camera made for the outdoors. Its beehive-inspired form allows it to become a part of the outdoors in a way that doesn’t clash with nature the way most tech does. Instead, this hive does its job and looks good while doing so. A fisheye lens captures a wide PoV, and the sealed waterproof design keeps your tech safe even in downpours.

Aside from being a smart home camera, the Seehive also provides visual deterrence. Someone is bound to be a lot more conscious and careful around a beehive, even more so if they realize it’s actually a camera. I’d like to believe it deters other bees from building nests near your home, but studies show that a faux beehive really doesn’t help deter bees or wasps. It would be really cool if it did!

Although purely conceptual, the Seehive comes feature-packed, with a 140° fisheye lens to capture a substantial field of view. It packs night vision too, along with a motion-detecting sensor. An internal battery keeps the Seehive running for a year on a full charge, while a USB-C port on the back lets you recharge the camera every year or so. Finally, an SD card slot holds all videos, which the Seehive lets you access through an app or your smart home interface. No subscription fees, no cloud servers.