Tag: WEBCAM

Lyndon Baty's weakened immune system won't allow him to attend classes at his local high school in Knox City, Texas. Fortunately, though, there's a robot capable of doing that for him. Baty, who suffers from Polycystic Kidney Disease, is now remotely attending his freshman classes via a VGO robot, which allows him to interact with his teachers and fellow students from the comfort of his own ...

This fall, while working on a Georgia Power Company right-of-way in South Georgia, a power company employee found a bank of shotguns that was aimed directly into a wild boar feeding area, and fully connected to the Internet. After taking a few pictures, the employee called the Georgia Wildlife Resources Division, who, in turn, called the Office of Homeland Security. In a November 19th bulletin, ...

If you weren't able to divine what exactly this product is from its ridiculously wonky title, we totally understand. But the awkwardly named Creative Live! Cam Socialize HD 1080 (CLCSHD1080, for short) is a webcam that captures high-definition 1080p video at 30fps, and can stream video chats at 720p (as long as your upstream Internet service provides 1 mbps or higher). Within the webcam world -- ...

An MIT graduate student has discovered a way to check a person's pulse with a plain-old, low-res webcam. According to MIT, Ming-Zher Poh has used open-source face-tracking software, and measured the variations in brightness resulting from blood vessels pumping blood in the face. Poh's method, which doesn't involve any sensors, produced pulse readings that were within three beats per minute of the ...

Tyler Clementi, an 18-year-old Rutgers University freshman, is believed to have jumped off the George Washington Bridge after his roommate and another Rutgers student broadcast a hidden live-stream of Clementi having sex, according to WPIX. Dharun Ravi and Molly Wei, both 18, were charged with invasion of privacy for setting up a webcam to view an encounter between Clementi and another person on ...

As most of the Switched team lives, eats and ultimately passes out on top of their precious laptops, we have no sympathy for criminals who would want to carry off our little babies. Especially not the guy pictured above, who allegedly swiped four laptops from an East Hampton, Long Island home, and was either brazen or stupid enough to sign on and webcam-chat with one of the victim's friends. ...

If you've ever wished you could star in your own reality TV show, you'll probably be intrigued by the Looxcie (pronounced look-see). This wearable camcorder fits over your ear much like a Bluetooth headset, but actually makes you seem even more self-absorbed than strutting around with a hands-free headset does. The cam can record four hours of video at a lowly 480×320 at only 15 ...

Going to your therapist may no longer require that you get in your car, sit in a stuffy office, or even get out of your pajamas. That's because a new online service called Mentaline now provides users with instant access to therapists, psychologists and life coaches, who deliver their professional services entirely via webcam. [Ed. Note: Is Lisa Kudrow behind this?] According to TechCrunch, ...

Andrey Ternovskiy, creator of the infamous Chatroulette, has taken down his site. Perhaps due to the pervasive presence of penii on the cam-sharing network, Ternovskiy writes, "The experiment #1 is over for now. Thanks for participating – Redesigned and updated version of the website will be launched tomorrow." (With fewer phalli?) Shawn Fanning, creator of Napster and CR adviser, has also ...

First, Barbie went nerd, and, now, with the release of Barbie Video Girl, she's suddenly gone all Peeping Tom on us. The new doll, at first glance, looks like any other disproportionate, run-of-the-mill Barbie. A closer look at her, um, cleavage, however, would reveal a camera embedded discreetly within her necklace. And, on her back, is a color LCD screen. That's right, girls of all ages can now ...

Artist-slash-entrepreneur-slash-maniac Josh Harris has always been somewhat obsessed with real-time webcam surveillance. But his latest project, 'Wired City,' might just take real-time video interaction to a whole new, zany level. As TechCrunch explains, "Wired City is like Chatroulette on steroids." The game starts when webcam-equipped users (or "ChatStars") go to video chat rooms, where they ...

Calling all counterfeiters, identity thieves and extortionists! The pen-makers over at Pilot have recently launched a free Web app that converts your handwriting (or, we suppose, anyone else's) into a typeface. Check out the video demo after the break. It makes the process seem simpler than it really is, but we have to say that, whether you'd use it to compose a thoughtful digital missive or ...

Share The digital age has smashed the primacy of the all-powerful television camera. Why rely on major networks when we have Twitpics, cell phone cameras and live-streams to make our own broadcasts? It seems that even the networks have recognized that all their fancy machinery can still be bested by a camera on a laptop. When a power failure hit the 'Jimmy Kimmel Live' studio on Monday, the ...

Upon its unveiling, Wangroulette Chatroulette immediately elicited a dramatic response from both casual social networkers and tech pundits for its revolutionary, albeit randomly ridiculous, method of instant and arbitrary interaction. Just as quickly, though -- and perhaps even more swiftly -- skeezy pervs tainted the site's rapid-fire webcam conversations with an overwhelming glut of genitals. ...

Imagine a life in which your every single action is controlled by someone else -- where you're nothing more than a Pinocchio to someone else's Geppetto. Now, imagine a life in which the puppetmaster dictating your every move is the entire Internet. For seven days, that life will belong to one David Perez. Beginning on June 21st, the online population can log on to Perez's Twitter account to ...