I have been a fan of Lockly merchandise, like their superdurable small smart safe and multifunction smart lock, so I used to be ready to see what they’d present at CES 2026. I am not disillusioned, significantly with one little new product that would turn into a house safety fave.
This tiny owlet, known as OwlGuard, is a security cam made for outside viewing and sports activities a 2K decision, colour evening imaginative and prescient and even a 1.54-inch onboard display to point out you battery standing and different information. Lockly is planning on a second-quarter 2026 launch with a retail worth of $10. However maintain on — that is solely the beginning of what I like about this wireless model.
You will have heard concerning the latest concerns about Wi-Fi jammers, gadgets that burglars can use to disconnect safety cams from Wi-Fi and cease them from recording. Whereas nonetheless very uncommon, it has been identified to occur, as have energy and web outages, which trigger comparable points. The OwlGuard offers with that in a number of methods.
First, because it’s battery powered, you possibly can place it out of attain of criminals. Second and extra distinctive, it could sense movement and document video offline with no need Wi-Fi. If its Wi-Fi connection is disrupted for any purpose (together with energy outages), it will hold proper on sensing and recording till you get issues working once more. The cam additionally helps Amazon Alexa and Google Residence integrations.
That is the primary safety cam I’ve seen with so many modular components.
That is additionally one of many solely modular safety cams I’ve seen, which suggests there are a number of add-ons you need to use to customise it for particular spots or jobs. The most typical one is a solar-power addition for automated recharging, however then the cam will get extra inventive. You’ll be able to add a privateness cowl if you don’t need it to see something in any respect, connect a sunshade to cease the glare, put it in a silicone case for additional safety or to move it safely and even join a magnifying lens to offer the owl a monocle for higher zooming. That is particularly ingenious and makes me surprise how modular different safety cams will turn into sooner or later.
Along with the OwlGuard, Lockly additionally introduced a brand new sensible protected (now bigger to suit extra stuff in) and an fascinating TapCom platform, made for short-term leases or frequent company so these company can use sensible gadgets extra simply whereas house owners nonetheless retain management. They may also be releasing an up to date Affirm sensible lock sequence. However it’s that little owlet that is caught my eye: I am going to need to strive it out this spring and allow you to know what I believe.
