Not long now till Halloween – Saturday 31st October 2009. Get in the Halloween scary mood by viewing a large selection of Café Party Halloween webcams all around the globe. Catch the excitement and parties atmosphere of Halloween by viewing ghost cams, fun, supernatural webcams and paranormal web cams… And even REAL monster cams in restaurants [...]
Bad weather forced NASA to scrub the first launch attempt of the test rocket Ares I-X. They will try again tomorrow, Wednesday October 28, at 08:00 ET (12:00 GMT). The weather looks better for launch at that time, but not by a whole lot. As it happens, I will be away at that time and [...]
Home security systems are extremely expensive these days but a fairly rudimentary cheap but effective system can be set up using Skype and a webcam. It involves keeping your computer on so this may not work if you are away from home for an extended period of time (imagine the electricity bill!) but if you [...]
Everyone and their aunt’s uncle is coming out with a Flip competitor nowadays, and Vivitar is no different. But atleast their alternative to the Flip sports some unique features. For starters it is waterproof up to 5 meters underwater. What is also neat about the Vivitar DVR 510 is that it features Infrared Night Vision, [...]
CROFTON, Neb. — Two area men have taken their love of weather, photography, wind surfing and computers, and rolled them all up into one. Actually, it’s more than one thing. There are two computer stations, weather tracking gizmos, four cameras, two Web sites and a server out in Salt Lake City. And that’s just for [...]
For thousands of Internet surfers, watching Estonian wild boars feed in a forest is apparently anything but boring. Tallinn — A webcam set up in an Estonian forest has proven to be an unexpected hit among Internet surfers who want to catch a glimpse of wild boars feeding and frolicking in the snow.
The first webcam began operating in 1991, the same year as Tim Berners-Lee’s World Wide Web, and had its origins in an even more important topic in computer science: the flow of caffeine around a research group. The group, based in Cambridge University’s computer lab and led by Dr Quentin Stafford-Fraser, had a problem: the [...]
Look up above this article. A little higher, above the screen. Chances are that if you’re on a laptop or even one of many desktops made in the last five years you’ll see a Webcam built in. And that Webcam might end up saving you–and the environment–a little bit of power. British inventor and self-described [...]