Archive for February, 2011

How to use Webcam Chatroulette

“WebcamChatroulette” is a website that randomly connects Internet users by setting up webcam sessions with strangers around the world. Each user can break off the session at will, by a simple press of a “Next” button. As soon as a session is closed by any user, a new session is started. Because of the nature [...]

Live Election 2011 in Ireland

Morning Ireland will be on-air from 8am, and you can watch the programme live on our webcam here. The results of an RTÉ exit poll will be available from 8am here. RTÉ’s televised coverage starts on RTÉ One from 11am. An embedded live video player will … Counts are ongoing with major gains for Fine [...]

See the World through the Eyes of a Baby with a Webcam

HelloWebcam.com have come up with a method that alters pictures so that they look like what babies see.  it shows the clear progression of vision’s improvement through the first few weeks of life. By the looks of it, you’ve got eight weeks to get rid of that terrible ZZZZZ Band t-shirt you’ve been wearing, lest [...]

Online user testing with webcam eye tracking

YouEye.com Announces Private Beta, Online User Testing with Webcam Eye Tracking. YouEye.com is seeking testers for their free private beta. Be one of the first to user test online and know exactly where users are looking. With YouEye’s eye tracking technology, an ordinary webcam is used to identify the gaze fixation of a user on [...]

Countdown to the Oscars

Last year, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences waded into the Internet stream and put up a webcam to cover the Oscar nominations announcement. This year, the Acad is putting on a show  a pre and post show for Tuesday’s ayem noms unveiling hosted by Chris Harrison and Entertainment Weekly’s Dave Karger. Without [...]

Earthquake Christchurch Webcams

A strong 6.3-magnitude earthquake has struck the city of Christchurch on New Zealand’s South Island, seriously injuring people and damaging buildings throughout the city. Webcams show damaged buildings throughout the city center, with bricks and shattered concrete strewn across the pavement. Hundreds of dazed, screaming and crying residents wandered through the streets as sirens blared [...]

Countdown Begins for Thursday Liftoff

The countdown for space shuttle Discovery’s launch on the STS-133 mission to the International Space Station is under way. The count began on-time at 3 p.m. EST with the team at NASA Kennedy Space Center’s Launch Control Center not working any significant issues. The weather forecast calls for an 80 percent chance of acceptable conditions [...]

Watching the (fake) grass grow

It may not be much more exciting that the real thing, but if you want to take a look at how the new “grass” okay, the new Astroturf surface is shaping up at Tropicana Field, there is actually a live webcam set up through AstroTurf’s website and here is a still webcam of the turf and how [...]