Bristol Zoo -Great Britain. Live streams of Gorillas, Birds, Rhinos and more. A great pleasure
Henry Doorly Zoo -Omaha, nebraska. A controllable cam showing the penguins. Great!
Buenaventura Hummin Bird Cam – Ecuador. You see an actual streaming feed of humming birds at their feeder. It’s not exactly live, but updated every day. I love those birds! [...]
A tenacious technophile helped Boston police recover his two stolen laptops by remotely activating one notebook’s webcam and spying on the Stoughton family who was using it.
But Waltham entrepreneur Josh Bob, 30, didn’t stop there: He recorded the surveillance videos and posted them on his blog.
“It was frustrating, no question, but to be honest, I [...]
Live webcams have come a long way in the last few years and their uses are as wide as the imagination. Webcams have been used for crime spotting, pet-sitting, baby-minding and more. There is even a webcam focused on Loch Ness just in case “Nessie” makes an appearance. The Nessie webcam has a camera attached [...]
The Chinese New Year is actually a moveable feast. Like many ancient customs, it follows the lunar calendar as well as the Gregorian calendar and consequently the New Year can begin anytime from late January to mid February, unlike our own thankfully fixed date. As various scholars have calculated the year from the reign of [...]
Now net is available widely, most netizens use net for video conferences or online chatting. The broad bands are facilitating the use of video. The increased bandwidth facilitates the use of video signals over the broadband; along with that webcams have improved allowing video compression in better fashion. If the peripherals are working fine then [...]
A new webcam will start broadcasting images – a picture that is closer and clearer than the past nesting season’s camera – from the famous Turtle Bay bald eagles’ nest starting today, said Sharon Dale, animal programs manager at Turtle Bay Exploration Park. “The public want it closer so they can see the eggs and [...]
Here are webcam sites to use with your students. A webcam site is a web site with a live camera focused on a particular location or scene. The video or stills from this camera are then conveyed over the Internet and accessed through the site. Almost all sites tell you how often photos are refreshed, [...]
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 [...]
The most popular reason to get a wireless webcam, like them, either on your computer via a USB cable or built-in screen is that you can take shots away from your computer. Many laptops and monitors are built in webcams, but this will limit the functionality of the webcam, even a simple USB versions. The [...]
Actually for all you golfers out there it’s a little bit smaller than a golf ball, but it is still a cool video camera that can be operated totally hands free as it has a built in motion detector and can be used in conjunction with a headband. There are all sorts of uses for [...]