NEST CAM IQ

Most burglars only want to be famous, but it’s tough when the average smart camera has the zooming abilities of a toaster. Treat your local thief to this Nest device and he’s sure to get an eminently tweetable mugshot. Equipped with a 4K sensor, the cute Cam IQ eschews bandwidth-heavy full-res streaming in favour of employing the extra pixels and HDR smarts to crop in on fine details that would otherwise be a blurry mess. Throw in room-tracking ‘supersight’ face recognition and you’ve a Home Alone in the making (minus, we assume, the swinging paint tins). £299 / nest.com