Archive for November, 2008

Webcam Dance Fail

An epic fail during a webcan dance by a lithuanian girl…. 

First live webcam from space

This webcam is located on the current Tate Satellite in orbit. It is sending images to your browser live, in realtime. This powerful wide angle webcam developed in collaboration with University College London enables a broad viewing range. Currently the webcam is focussed on our own planet, earth. You may take control of the webcam [...]

Webcam & Digital Frame

Combines a web camera, digital photo frame, thermometer and alarm clock in one convenient package. Use the webcam to videoconference with loved ones or business clients, and use the digital frame to display up to 50 of your favorite photos in JPEG, BMP and GIF formats.

Watch Frank the baby gorilla webcam

The San Diego Zoo’s Great Ape Awareness Days start Thursday, Nov.  13 and run through Sunday. It’s a chance for guests to find out more about the zoo’s three species of great apes: gorillas, orangutans and bonobos, the most endangered. But the real draw is Frank, the baby gorilla who was born at the zoo [...]

RadioHead – 12 Cams: Create a dynamic and customized show!

This site is streaming a live Radiohead show with 12 different camera angles. As the show progresses you can toggle between various cameras. This is unquestionably a great morning starter. For ‘s October 5 gig in Japan a group of filmmakers at Wowow decided record the show from twelve different cameras angles to create a [...]

The Shinkansen Webcam from Japan

The Shinkansen is a network of high-speed railway lines in Japan operated by four Japan Railways Group companies. Since the initial Tōkaidō Shinkansen opened in 1964 running at 210 km/h (130 mph), the network (2,459 km or 1,528 miles) has expanded to link most major cities on the islands of Honshū and Kyūshū with running [...]

Gmail introduces voice and webcam video chat

The missing parts have finally arrived and Gmail is now equipped with voice and webcam video chat. If you have a microphone and a webcam,  you can now video chat with your friends directly from Gmail by downloading and installing a special plugin. The Gmail voice and webcam video chat plugin supports all major browsers [...]

A picture webcam is worth a thousand passwords

Data security is a hard enough problem to solve on even a heavily regulated corporate network, but it becomes even more difficult when users are out in the wild with PDAs, cell phones and other portable communications devices. A recent PhD project at the University of Twente in the Netherlands has described a user-friendly solution [...]