Technology seeks home

Parental anxiety has already proved to be fertile ground for technologies looking for a market, and companies are certainly quick off the mark with this one:

Internet-based home monitoring services could be a key component in delivering government targets for getting parents back into the workplace, it was claimed today.

Companies [] argue that technology such as internet-based home monitoring services can allow busy parents to work and still feel that their children are safe.

Apparently the gizmos even come with smoke detectors, so you can watch your house burning down (with your children in it) from your office.