Anker Takes Home Security Off the Grid at IFA 2026 - DTNS 5346

**Jason Howell** (0:08)
This is the Daily Tech News for Thursday, September 3rd, 2026 We tell you what you need to know, give you the important context, and help each other understand.

**Jenn Cutter** (0:16)
Today, IFA is underway in Berlin, so we will do our best to cover the most important announcements happening right now. And oh my goodness, so many announcements. It's just a flood of announcements.

**Jason Howell** (0:27)
Kind of too much. We hope to get done in time today. I'm one of your hosts, Jason Howell.

**Jenn Cutter** (0:31)
I'm Jenn Cutter.

**Jason Howell** (0:32)
And we're going to start with what you need to know with a big story.
Yes. So this is a consumer technology show that happens in Berlin every year, in Messe, Messe, Berlin, called IFA. It is officially kicked off. And as usual, there are tons of consumer tech announcements being made from the event. And so we thought we'd do that today a little different because there were so many of them. We're going to talk about a big story, which has to do with Anker and kind of their products. And then after the break, you're going to get a whole bunch of other stuff from IFA. So it's a little different today. And we're going to hope to get through all of it and get you out of here at the time that we normally do. But let's start with Anker.
Definitely catching a lot of buzz. They've got a number of products as they usually do at IFA. I call it IFA. I don't know if everybody does, but I like to call it IFA. Anker has the Eufy MindBase as one product. This is a smart home hub that works on device. So you don't have a monthly fee, right? Like it's tied to the device itself. It is matter enabled, which is really nice. It has up to 20 camera channels, 34 sensors. It supports HomeKit, Alexa, Google Home, Home Assistant. So it supports all the main players in security, in home security, in home devices. And it has this neural processor, which runs what Anker is calling its true smart agent. And that allows it to do things like recognize faces, posture, of which mine is horrible right now, I just noticed, behavior, objects. And again, going back to this idea that it's all done locally, it's not working in the cloud, it's all done on device. And yeah, there's just a whole bunch of other features, the ability to store photos, videos, clips from all those security cameras onto a network attached storage via an agent that's built into it.
Organizing a family timeline of what's going on and building highlight reels based on all that information, push notifications.
Yeah, it's just a really cool device. If you want to monitor your home security through some of Anker's other products, you don't have to rely on the cloud, but you do need to wait for the price and release details on this because they are not there yet. And I find this interesting, Jenn, because so much is happening in the world of AI, like in a different perspective about like, yes, you've got the in the cloud frontier models, but then you've got your local. There's like a big push for local non-reliance on the cloud, which has cost savings, which has data protection and privacy savings. And this kind of reminds me of that.

**Jenn Cutter** (3:20)
My two favorite words with AI are on-device.

**Jason Howell** (3:24)
On-device, yes.

**Jenn Cutter** (3:25)
No monthly fees, which also means like, okay, good. So they can't turn it off when they're bored.

**Jason Howell** (3:30)
Right. Yeah, you're kind of in control, right? That's a big part of that. So I think that's great to have more devices that are kind of leaning into that. That's good for consumers anyways.
Other security products from Anker, the Eufy line. There's the Smart Security Shield sensor. It has a radar for that. And this is to help the mind base that I just talked about with some of those security alerts. You've got that. It can detect strangers up to 30 meters away. There's a new video doorbell with 3K tracking technology. That's going to be $300 later this month. An 8-channel network video recording system with 2K security cameras. That can do all sorts of fun things that you might want out of a security camera, like tracking, light auto framing, smart video search, 24-7 recording. So you just want them to run and kind of go daisy chain or something like that. I'm sure it could do that.
And yeah, there's a $70 window camera coming this year. It's a little 25K device with a cup-like shield design. So it can reduce some of the glare. So basically what that is, is you can attach it to the inside of a window, just pop it right on and it can do its magic. These devices are getting really flexible and in understanding like we all have different homes with different needs and that customizability of these systems is becoming a real priority. So yeah, I think that sounds neat.