webcams

How to set up your nice camera as a high-quality webcam in 5 minutes

Everyone needs a webcam these days, whether for business meetings or the distant socializing accomplished via video calling — but if you’re like most, you’re using the built-in camera on

VLC prepares to add AirPlay support as it crosses 3 billion downloads

VLC, the hugely popular media playing service, is filling one of its gaps with the addition of AirPlay support as it has just crossed an incredible three billion downloads. The new feature was reveal

CMU researchers create a huge dome that can read body language

The Panoptic Studio is a new body scanner created by researchers at Carnegie Mellon University that will be used to understand body language in real situations. The scanner, which looks like something

Insecam Displays Unsecured Webcams From Around The World

An odd site called Insecam purports to display 73,000 unsecured webcams from around the world, most of them CCTV and simple IP cameras. All of the cameras have two things in common – they’

Logitech's Portable C615 HD Webcam Is A Strange-Looking Beast

<img src="http://www.crunchgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/Logitech-C615.jpg" />Pretty much every webcam is going to be HD from here on out, but the ones we've seen have generally been a bit bulky

Cisco Drops Price Of ūmi Video Chat Service, Offers New 720p Version

<img src="http://www.crunchgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/CIS.jpg" /><a href="http://www.crunchgear.com/2010/10/06/cisco-announces-umi-hd-home-video-calling-system-for-599-25-per-month/">ūmi</a>

Review: Microsoft Lifecam Studio 1080p Webcam

Short version: It’s pricey and rather bulky, but it’s definitely an improvement over the other HD webcams out there, and a huge improvement over piece of junk embedded in your bezel.

Samsung's new webcam sensors are "high performance, high definition" – kind of

<img src="http://www.crunchgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/sam20.png" />When the first <a href="http://www.crunchgear.com/2009/08/17/microsofts-lifecam-hd-lets-you-video-chat-at-1280x720/">720p </

New HD webcams from Microsoft

Attention citizens! Your benevolent overlords have released three new entries in the LifeCam series. Now all of your long-distance correspondences can be in glorious 720p. Unfortunately, none of them

Hold your Bad Idea Jeans up with this Playboy spy camera belt

<img src="http://www.crunchgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/SpyCameraBelt2.jpg">Free dating tip: If the girl you’re talking to isn’t impressed by your Playboy belt, make sure to mention that it

Comparing Microsoft's 720p LifeCam Cinema to an iSight

<img src="http://www.crunchgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/microsoft-lifecam-cinema-720p-webcam-3.jpg" />I've just hooked up the <a href="http://www.crunchgear.com/2009/08/17/microsofts-lifecam-hd

Microsoft's 720p webcam has company

<img src="http://www.crunchgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/herc1.jpg" />Microsoft was proud to announce their <a href="http://www.crunchgear.com/2009/08/17/microsofts-lifecam-hd-lets-you-video-cha

Microsoft's LifeCam HD lets you video chat at 1280×720

<img src="http://www.crunchgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/microsoft-lifecam-cinema-720p-webcam-3.jpg" />I know I give tiny cameras a lot of guff, but merely small ones are getting pretty damn goo

DIY home surveillance

<img src="http://www.crunchgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/310dkd69fhl_sl500_aa280_.jpg">It's like the Internet knows what I'm looking for! <a HREF="http://news.cnet.com/8301-27076_3-10301349-248.

Web cam tilts, swivels, has 2GB of storage

<img src="http://crunchgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/webcam.jpg" alt="webcam" />Good for those hard-to-reach places, this USB web cam rotates 360 degrees and can be angled up to 180 degrees. It'

Novo Minoru, the world's first and last red/blue 3D webcam

<img src="http://www.crunchgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/minoru_comb.jpg" /> Remember those awful movies where a 3D effect was effected by having two images, one red and one blue or green, and

New Samsung webcam sensor does 720p and more

Seeing that PC users on desktop and laptop are embracing both HD video and built-in webcams, Samsung has decided to put the two together in the obvious form of a HD webcam. Until now, webcams have bee

Review: Microsoft Lifecam Show webcam

You’ll like it if you’re looking for a high-quality webcam with decent software, autofocus, and good low-light performance. But not if you’re a Mac user or you can’t justify spending $100 on a

Sure, why not? Ethical, fair trade USB devices

A company in Belgium called United Pepper is behind a line of USB devices that are assembled in a fair trade-certified factory in Vietnam. The devices include a USB webcam called Lili (seen above) and

Review: IPEVO POV webcam

When it comes to buying a webcam, there seems to be two distinct product groupings. On the one end, you have inexpensive cameras that sell for between $20 and $50. These cameras often feature relative
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